No. 1 IU locks up key assistant football coaches with big contract extensions
The latest move keeps two-time AP Coach of the Year Curt Cignetti and two of his most loyal and dependable assistants together for several seasons.
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Fernando Mendoza tells kids who feel overlooked: ‘I was you’
The quarterback—the first football player from IU to win the Heisman Trophy—told head coach Curt Cignetti, “You drove me to a level I didn’t even know I had inside me.”
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Indiana University wins Big Ten football title with upset over No. 1 Ohio State
The No. 2 Hoosiers won their first Big Ten Conference football title since 1967 by upsetting the top team in the nation and the defending national champs.
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Local tourism officials seeing ‘off-the-hook’ interest in Big Ten Football Championship game
Downtown hotels are expected to be almost entirely sold out for both Friday and Saturday nights, and ticket prices for the game are soaring on the resale market.
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At TEDSports, screenwriter Angelo Pizzo lauds the long shots
Thirty-two years after “Rudy,” Pizzo continues to praise the University of Notre Dame walk-on football player as an inspiration.
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IU’s Curt Cignetti becomes first back-to-back winner of AP football coach of the year
Cignetti was a landslide winner for coach of the year in voting by the nationwide panel of 52 media members who cover college football.
Former IU Indy men’s basketball players sue trustees and campus, allege abuse by fired head coach
In the suit, the players allege they suffered measurable losses, including a loss of value of their scholarships, loss of academic and employment positions, physical injury and emotional harm.
IU’s Fernando Mendoza wins the Heisman Trophy as college football’s top player
Mendoza became the first Hoosier to win college football’s most prestigious award since its inception in 1935.
IU’s Fernando Mendoza wins Heisman Trophy as college football’s top player
Mendoza, the Hoosiers’ first-year starter after transferring from California, is the triggerman for an offense that surpassed program records for touchdowns and points set during last season’s surprise run to the CFP.
Derek Schultz: Bulldogs seek return to former success while navigating new landscape
Joking aside, Matta knows that navigating roster turnover is now the name of the game in major college basketball.
Fernando Mendoza looking to become IU’s first Heisman Trophy winner
Mendoza enters this weekend having won the Associated Press Player of the Year Award and as the the favorite to win college football’s most prestigious individual award.
Bowl officials seek 5-7 teams to fill in after Irish, others say they’re done for year
Notre Dame is opting out of bowl eligibility after being left out of the College Football Playoff. Meanwhile, Indiana University secured the No. 1 seed in the CFP.
UPDATE: No. 2 Indiana pursuing bigger goals after retaining Old Oaken Bucket at Purdue
After completing the first perfect regular season in school history, the No. 2 Hoosiers will face off against No. 1 Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game on Dec. 6 at Lucas Oil Stadium.
IU, Ohio State poised to make historic Big Ten title football game
If Indiana University and Ohio State win this week against rivals Purdue and Michigan, they’d both bring undefeated overall records into the Big Ten Conference title game in Indianapolis.
Michigan football’s sign-stealing fines will cost school more than $30M, athletic director says
The Indianapolis-based NCAA announced in August a series of punishments for a sprawling scandal that has loomed over the Wolverines for two years.
These college students didn’t seek a football school, but they ended up at IU
To their surprise, they reside both in the pretty college town they craved and amid the kind of buzzy air available only from a stark-raving football powerhouse.
NCAA agrees to pay volunteer coaches $303M under proposed settlement
The class-action lawsuit would affect more than 7,700 men and women who worked as volunteer coaches in sports other than baseball, according to a motion for preliminary approval filed this week.
NCAA revokes eligibility of 6 more college basketball players as betting probe continues
The NCAA said last month that it had been investigating at least 30 current or former players for gambling issues.
NCAA delays rule change permitting college athletes to bet on professional sports
The delay comes less than a week after an NBA coach and player were arrested in a takedown of two sprawling gambling operations that authorities said leaked inside information about NBA athletes.
Shifts in college sports give law firm opportunities
A Fishers-based law firm that’s made a name for itself in college sports compliance is gearing up for big changes as federal lawmakers weigh sweeping reforms to how athletes are paid and how competition is governed.
NCAA president urges conferences, schools to be cautious of equity deals
Amid growing pressure to raise funds to pay players, the Big Ten Conference has reportedly been in negotiations with an investor that would offer billions to help market media rights and other properties.
UPDATE: IU locks up football coach Cignetti with huge new contract
Under the new eight-year pact, Curt Cignetti becomes the third-highest-paid coach in college football, behind only Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Ohio State’s Ryan Day.
Lach leaving Horizon League for executive role with Pacers Sports & Entertainment
Julie Roe Lach has been commissioner of the Indianapolis-based Horizon League since 2021 and also chairs the Indiana Sports Corp. board of directors.
Cignetti taking business-as-usual approach as IU football reaches its highest ranking
Amazingly, with basketball season beckoning in Bloomington, around campus all anyone wants to talk about is football.