The critics wasted no time picking apart Nate Davis' decision to forgo his senior season and enter this year's NFL Draft. They lined our message board with comments sharing their displeasure. They made threads to vent their frustration on their Web site, bsufans.
A classroom door in the basement of LaFollette Complex was decorated Tuesday with a hand crafted sign announcing, "Welcome Back." After weeks of vacancy following a Nov. 19 fire, the area was reopened Monday to Ball State University students. Kevin Kenyon, associate vice president of facilities planning and management, said damages caused by the fire cost the university less than $100,000 in repairs.
As the Ball State University football team received national recognition for an undefeated regular season in 2008, two Ball State seniors stole the spotlight before 20 years ago in 1988. No, the seniors of Eric Nixon and Todd Hershey didn't play quarterback and wide receiver -¡- they were a doubles tandem whose success in college tennis gave Ball State national recognition.
Students have a chance to win a scholarship equaling 40 percent of the opening day sales at Muncie's newest restaurant, Noodles & Company, on Monday. Mark Burkley, operating partner at Noodles & Company, said anyone with a valid student ID from a high school or college can enter a drawing to win the scholarship.
As Mother Nature shoves Muncie in the deep freezer - somewhere between the bulk mini-corn dogs and those 500 meatballs left over from your high school graduation - everyone's all atwitter about how miserably cold it is. It is, in fact, miserably cold. Listen carefully and you'll notice a trend in phrasing this time of year.
"It's cold. I didn't have to come in till three o'clock. Day shift did a pretty good job of clearing the snow." Lindsay Fair, Ball State food services employee "This is nothing. I grew up in the region where it came by the footfall. So this is good weather for me.
Less than 72 hours before opening the season against a top five team, coach Joel Walton is still trying to figure out the right lineup to stop all-conference outside attacker Evan Romero. Walton said Wednesday he is considering three players to start at the left outside attacker position, who would be responsible for blocking Romero in the No.
Seated behind a microphone Monday, Ball State University football coach Stan Parrish seemed like an artist ready to part with his masterpiece. Instead of a painting, Parrish was talking about Nate Davis, his junior quarterback, who announced he would forgo his senior year and declare himself eligible for the NFL Draft.
Every once in a while a person gets an opportunity to change his life. It's not always an easy decision. He can either stick with something that has served him well for years, or he can gamble on something new that has the potential to be amazing. Ball State University quarterback Nate Davis faced such a decision recently and chose to move on from the team he has led for the last three years.
Months of speculation ended Tuesday as Ball State University junior quarterback Nate Davis announced he will forgo his final season with the Cardinals to enter the 2009 NFL Draft. Davis - who holds the Ball State career passing records for yards (9,233), touchdown passes (74), pass attempts (1,124), pass completions (678), 250-yard passing games (20) and 300-yard passing games (9) - could have returned to the Cardinals for his senior season.
Following the Ball State University men's basketball team's 60-54 win at home against Northern Illinois University on Tuesday, the Cardinals (7-7, 2-0 Mid-American Conference) jumped ahead of the University of Akron as the No. 2 scoring defense in the MAC, trailing only Miami University.
The Ball State University men's basketball team needed little extra motivation Tuesday in its Mid-American Conference home opener against Northern Illinois University. Three days after losing senior forward Anthony Newell, the team's leading scorer and rebounder, to a season-ending leg injury, moving on was a necessity.
One day after announcing he would enter the 2009 NFL Draft, the value of Ball State University junior quarterback Nate Davis might have risen Wednesday. University of Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford announced Wednesday he will return to Oklahoma next season, passing on a chance to be a high NFL draft pick.
Although Nate Davis is leaving Muncie to pursue a career in the NFL, there is a chance he might not leave the state of Indiana, a NFL Draft analyst said. After Davis' announcement Tuesday that he would enter the 2009 NFL Draft, Scout.com NFL Draft Analyst Chris Steuber said the Indianapolis Colts are one of the teams that could be interested in drafting him.
Porchia Green will have something to leave behind. The senior guard scored 1,000 points for the Ball State University's women's basketball team. "To leave something behind at Ball State is great," she said. "It's just fun." The commemoration for Green becoming the 19th Ball State women's basketball player to have scored 1,000 points will happen before the start of tonight's game against Central Michigan University.
Students will have the chance to see fairy tales in a new light today at the Ball State University Museum of Art. "Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland," featuring art by Maggie Taylor, and "Fantasy and Fairy Tales," consisting of prints the museum collected over the past few years, open Friday.
A gymnast from the University of Alabama transferred to Ball State University to compete for the Cardinals, coach Nadalie Walsh announced Monday. Julie Cotter, who graduated from Northwestern Lehigh High School in Orefield, Pa., in 2008, enrolled at Alabama in the fall.
Music instructor Robert Palmer worked with Jooyoung Kim and Mirinae Kim on their piano for 60 hours in the fall. The duo also practiced playing for hundreds of hours on their own, working to perfect their performances for an upcoming test. In November 2008, the graduate students won third place at the International Sergey Taneyev Chamber Music Competition, a prominent ensemble music contest held annually in Moscow.
The Ball State University men's basketball team doesn't have much time to consider the effect of losing its top all-around player to a season-ending leg injury. Ball State will play host to Northern Illinois University in a 7 p.m. matchup at Worthen Arena, three days after senior forward Anthony Newell - the team's leading scorer and rebounder - had season-ending surgery on a compound fracture to his right tibia and fibula suffered in Saturday's 46-42 win at Eastern Michigan University.
