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Indiana waives additional hearing, promises to take its medicine this time

August 7th, 2008 | Posted in college basketball

Just saw this pop up on ESPN: According to reports out of Bloomington, the Indiana University administration has decided to not request an additional hearing with the NCAA, in response to the NCAA slapping an additional charge of “failure to monitor” the basketball program.
As the ESPN story notes:
University spokesman Larry MacIntyre confirmed the decision Thursday. [...]

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And this weekend song request goes to …

February 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized

Michael M., Rick G., DJ W. and a bunch of plucky kids from Danny D. in Bloomington. Dan says he’s not good at texting, so this is his best effort:
[youtube width="425" height="335"]http://youtube.com/watch?v=SuB8xWeA59I[/youtube]

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Players revolt, Media unfulfilled, Sampson worm still turns

February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized

I’ll say this for Indiana University athletics — no one, and I mean no one, does drama better than the Cream and Crimson. Everyone always blamed the drama on Bob Knight, but that’s selling IU short. They certainly appear to have their own special type of crazy going for them.
What the hell happened today? Just [...]

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It was just 35 calls! Er…we mean, it was only 100 calls!

October 17th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized

More news from the incredibly sad and entertaining mess in Bloomington. According to the Indianapolis Star, the report that Indiana University sent to the NCAA in regards to excessive phone calls to recruits by Kelvin Sampson’s staff at IU actually included 100 calls of uncertain origin, not the 35 that were reported in the press [...]

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Don’t point that gun at him, he’s an unpaid intern

October 16th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized

So let me see if I get this right. You’re Indiana University, a school which has prided itself on having a “clean” men’s basketball program for decades. You’ve just hired Oklahoma’s Kelvin Sampson, a coach whose ethics are seemingly non-existent — so much so that he’s landed his former university on probation and has been [...]

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