IU/Purdue Blog Posts

Questions remain about Big Ten tournament's future in Indy

March 16, 2010
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Despite a 20 percent attendance increase at this year's men's Big Ten tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse, there are still cities looking to steal the event from Indianapolis.
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Bob Knight: Gatorade = Steroids?

January 12, 2010
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Former IU basketball coach Bob Knight compares Gatorade to other performance enhancing drugs, and says he should have been advising Mark McGwire during slugger's Senate testimony.
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Bob Knight skewers UK, Peyton Manning stays smart

December 18, 2009
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Former IU hoops coach Bob Knight and Colts quarterback Peyton Manning are making national headlines this morning for different reasons. Whatever you think about the duo, you can't fault them for staying true to their brands.
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Dan Dakich takes studio job with Big Ten Network

November 20, 2009
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Former IU and Bowling Green coach Dan Dakich takes post with Big Ten Network for men's college basketball season. But it won't affect his local sports-talk radio show.
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Purdue's slow-growth investments paying off big

October 20, 2009
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Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter has used a slow-growth, high-yield formula to build the Boilers into a top-five program.
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Painter's realistic approach turns Purdue into power

October 7, 2009
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Basketball Coach Matt Painter says Purdue may not be "sexy," but adds that the blue collar approach is getting it done in West Lafayette.
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Glass cuts staff in Indiana University athletics department

September 24, 2009
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New IU Athletics Director Fred Glass has cut his senior staff by one-third and taken on oversight of the school's football program personally.
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Coach Knight still weighing IU Hall of Fame invitation

September 10, 2009
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No news is good news. Well, in the case of Indiana University's invitation for former basketball coach Bob Knight to return to Bloomington it is. It means he hasn't dismissed the invitation out of hand.
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Knight elected to IU Hall of Fame

August 21, 2009
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Indiana University athletic director Fred Glass, less than eight months into the job, has made his most courageous decision. And no, it has nothing to do with drawing students to football games with free snacks.
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IU-UK game may return to Indy

July 7, 2009
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Banter by Indiana University and University of Kentucky men’s basketball coaches Tom Crean and John Calipari about a neutral site match-up has fueled speculation the game could return to Indianapolis. Calipari, who is preparing for his...
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IU's Crean, x-Colts QB focus of film

May 5, 2009
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Indiana University basketball coach Tom Crean—and his connection to the Harbaugh family—will be the focus of a documentary produced by NFL Films. An NFL Films crew visited Bloomington last week to film Crean with...
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IU's Crean tweeting to win

April 30, 2009
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Big news out of Bloomington … basketball coach Tom Crean is Twittering. Pardon me, he’s tweeting. He began about two weeks ago. Actually, it is rather cool, and pretty forward thinking too. Crean...
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Dakich: Coaching career not dead

April 8, 2009
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Basketball coach turned radio talk show host Dan Dakich isn’t sure about his future. While the former Indiana University and Bowling Green State University basketball coach said he’s focused 100 percent on hosting...
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Buckeye success scores for Indy

March 13, 2009
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Now that IU is out of the Big Ten basketball tournament, local organizers and tourism officials have to hope that Ohio State can make a run. A successful run by Purdue probably wouldn't hurt either, but history has shown that...
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Knight could come cheap for UGA

February 2, 2009
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Former Indiana University coach Bob Knight is contemplating coming out of retirement. Multiple sources said if the University of Georgia offers Knight its vacant men’s basketball coaching job, Knight would accept. “I have never...
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IU facing severe revenue shortfall

January 21, 2009
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The announcement that Indiana University is lowering the price of its balcony seats from $23 to $5 for the last seven home games got me wondering how new athletic director Fred Glass is...
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Glass hits ground running at IU

January 6, 2009
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Fred Glass, who officially took over as Indiana’s athletic director Jan. 2, hasn’t taken long to become ensconced in academia. Even before Glass filled the office vacated by Rick Greenspan, he sat down...
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Hoosiers have reason to celebrate

January 5, 2009
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Yes, there is some joy in Hoosierland today. And no it’s not because Pittsburgh is No. 1 in the college basketball poll. Well, actually that is the reason—kind of. In a season that finds...
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IU starts sports journalism center

December 23, 2008
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Former Indianapolis Star editor Tim Franklin, 48, yesterday announced he is leaving his post as editor of the Baltimore Sun to head the new IU sports journalism center. Franklin was hired as the...
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Dakich goes shoeless for charity

December 23, 2008
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Former IU basketball coach Dan Dakich is doing his daily sports-talk radio show barefoot through January 17 to draw awareness to Samaritan's Feet (www.samaritansfeet.org), an organization dedicated to providing shoes to kids...
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San Diego State sets bar for IU

December 16, 2008
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I’m sure soon-to-be new Indiana University athletics director Fred Glass took notice of what San Diego State paid to lure football coach Brady Hoke away from Ball State. The cost of luring a...
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Saturday's game is scary sign

December 8, 2008
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It’s difficult to say if Saturday’s weak turnout for the first basketball games at Lucas Oil Stadium is an indication of how bad the economy or Indiana’s basketball team is. Probably...
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Glass, Swarbrick in same boat

December 5, 2008
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Fred Glass, IU's soon-to-be athletic director, and Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick have something in common. And I’m not talking about their roots as law partners at Baker & Daniels. Neither one of them has...
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NCAA sends IU final message

November 26, 2008
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The system works, proclaimed Indiana University coach Tom Crean yesterday after the NCAA handed down its ruling for transgressions in the Hoosiers’ basketball program last year. It certainly does. But most people have little...
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IU, PU commemorate Bucket game

November 21, 2008
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Purdue and Indiana universities are celebrating one of college football’s oldest prizes—together. As the Boilermakers and Hoosiers gear up for their showdown tomorrow at Purdue's Ross-Ade Stadium—the 83rd battle for the Old Oaken Bucket—the...
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