Sports. You either love it, or you hate it. If you love sports, you have a favorite team, favorite players, possibly even a favorite coach. If you don't - well, then you're like me. With baseball season starting, you see more and more Yankees and Red Sox hats around campus.
A move long overdue, the foundation that manages $235 million of Ball State University's money appointed a chief investment officer. Thomas Heck, the man appointed, has been doing this job in addition to others since the 1980s but is now able to devote more time to the money management portion of his job.
While the 10-game win streak was snapped for the Ball State University baseball team, a different streak was extended. In its first two series of the Mid-American Conference, Ball State played Sunday's game with a chance to get a sweep, but this weekend the Cardinals were on the opposite end of the spectrum.
After returning every offensive starter from last year's team, the Ball State University football team had few questions this offseason regarding its starting personnel on that side of the ball. However, one of the priorities coach Brady Hoke placed on the offense during spring practice was to establish a reliable third and fourth receiving option, behind wide receiver Dante Love and tight end Darius Hill.
The Ball State University baseball team will look to get back to the type baseball that enabled them to win 10 straight games prior to last weekend's two losses. In the Cardinals path today is Indiana State University. The Sycamores will come to Ball Diamond sporting a 10-20 record and will look to snap a three-game losing streak.
With a series split against Miami University to end the first half of Mid-American Conference play, the Ball State University softball team feels well about its standing in the conference. Ball State (27-21, 5-5 MAC) beat Miami (16-18, 7-3 MAC) 3-1 Sunday after losing its first game of the weekend 1-0 to the RedHawks Saturday.
After listening to a crowd screaming his name at Ball State University on Saturday, Sen. Barack Obama said he would be back to Muncie before the May 6 Indiana primary. "We wanted to do a town hall [meeting] today," Obama said. "but we also want to do a big-arena rally, so we are going to try to come back.
When Ball State University linebacker Spain Cosby returned a Tanner Justice interception to inside his team's five-yard line, it seemed the score of Saturday's spring scrimmage was about to turn ugly. Despite a 23-0 victory for the Cardinal team, which teamed the starting offense with the second-string defense, Cosby's pick failed to produce points.
For the third consecutive week a Ball State University baseball player has been named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Week. Following Ryan Chenoweth and Dean Anna is outfielder Kory Benbow, who won the award Monday. The sophomore went 10-17 at the plate with two home runs, 11 runs and 10 RBIs in four games last week.
David Hentz, freshman graphic arts management major, said he wished more students would get involved in the community and become advocates. "More people, more voice, more change," he said. Students had a chance to advocate public policy issues Saturday when 50 students wrote 250 letters to government officials.
Sitting in Friday's film session, outside attacker Mark Termion said he was shocked when he saw his name written on the team's dry-erase board in the front of the room. Placed on the listed as one of the No. 8 Ball State University men's volleyball team's starters for its Saturday road match against No.
Competing with an injury-laden roster, the Ball State University track and field team won three events on its way to a sixth-place finish Saturday at the Miami Invitational. Miami University won the meet, scoring 212 points through 19 scored events. Ball State's 66.
For the third time in a year and a half, copies of The Ball State Daily News were stolen from locations across campus. We hope most of campus realizes how wrong and illegal this is. Stealing is a crime, regardless of the cost of what you're stealing. Printing costs alone were more than $1,000 but that doesn't account for the money advertisers put into it or the long, hard hours the editorial and advertising staffs worked.
Finals are just around the corner, which means the best party on campus isn't Late Nite, but instead Bracken Library. Yes, that big, brick building that vaguely resembles a stack of books in the center of campus happens to be the hot spot for many Ball State University students.
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With three weeks left of school, I am sure the majority of Ball State University students are ready for summer break. Whether you will be hitting the beach, sleeping in, relaxing with your high school friends or working full-time, I suggest making the best of the three months we have off.
Coming into the weekend undefeated in conference play, the Ball State University men's tennis team's was planning on carrying its momentum to a first-place spot in the Mid-American Conference tournament. Instead, with its one loss to rival No. 71 Western Michigan University, the team has to fight for the second spot to the tournament on April 26.
More than 3,000 people, both old and young, Indiana residents and people from across the ocean, attended Sen. Barack Obama's speech Saturday at Ball State University. William Egbuna flew in from London to see Obama. A lot of people in the United Kingdom support Obama, Egbuna said.
The Ball State University women's tennis team lost two home conference matches this weekend to No. 60 Western Michigan University and Bowling Green State University. The Cardinals (8-10, 1-6 MAC) fell both days by 6-1 scores. "I thought on Friday [against Western Michigan] we came out with the right frame of mind and energy level, but we were just beaten by a better team," head coach Kathy Bull said.
Delta Zeta sorority, along with the help of some gelatin, brought in more than $5,000 for charity with its annual Turtle Tugs philanthropy Sunday. Sarah Russell, philanthropy chairwoman for Delta Zeta, said the event was a success despite the poor weather.
