View the slideshow to see pictures of the weekend home sport games.
The Ball State University men's tennis team kicked off its Mid-American Conference season with a 5-2 victory over the University at Buffalo. Coach Bill Richards said the trip to Buffalo, N.Y. can be very draining, but the team still played well. "We just took care of business one match at a time," Richards said.
View the slideshow to see which photos were considered the best photos of the week.
Two Ball State University students will have 500 seconds to present a business plan in the back of the limousine today as it drives around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. If their presentation for the Nascent 500 Business Plan Challenge is successful, the students could win $10,000.
Muncie residents will have the opportunity to view the Wabash River from 100 different angles in all four seasons March 24 through June 24 at Minnetrista. Local artists David Dale and Jim Faulkner traveled more than 500 miles during a span of 15 years to capture the Wabash River in order to complete the display.
Today, the Ball State University men's tennis team plays in its Mid-American Conference match against the University of Buffalo.-áThe Cardinals are coming off two hard losses over Spring Break against the University of Michigan and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Motivation may be hard to come by, but when a team finds some, they are capable of doing great things. Case in point, the Ball State University gymnastics team found motivation in a wild moose and its calf, coach Lisa Simonton said, during the team's trip to Alaska over Spring break.
While the Ball State University softball team is suffering from a lack of consistency, it's not strike outs or errors that worry coach Craig Nicholson the most. His greatest concern is the lack of emotional consistency. The Cardinals (7-14) will look to gain more consistency at this weekend's Iowa Tournament.
Inclement weather has postponed today's Mid-American Conference home opening meet for the Ball State University baseball team.
PART FIVE OF A FIVE-PART SERIES Freshmen Heather Caldwell and Emily McKenna admit that they know practically nothing about insurance - and they aren't alone. "I don't really think ahead about stuff, just about getting through the next test," McKenna said. Senior Sarah Oldham, on the other hand, has more knowledge about insurance than most college students.
Safe sex just got pricier. Ball State University students who get their birth control from the Amelia T. Wood Student Health Center are in for a big surprise. Prescription birth control is set to increase in cost up to threefold with the implementation of the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.
Before Spring Break, I wrote about my trip to New Orleans last year and how I spent four days gutting out ruined houses and how it gave me things to think about on the way back. I finished with a sort of segue into this week's column about how I was going to go back to work in the same area and do the same kind of work and come back with a different set of questions.
For those of you who have always dreamt of touring the holy lands of the Middle East but were too reluctant to leave good old-fashioned American T&A behind, there's good news. It was announced this week that Hooters, America's favorite slightly amoral restaurant, will be opening its first chain in Tel Aviv, Israel, this summer.
When freshman standout Travis Smith died in a traffic accident Jan. 27, the Ball State men's golf coach was in the process of determining the spring season captain. To remember Smith from a team and spiritual standpoint, coach Mike Fleck and his players easily decided Smith should be the honorary captain for the 2007 season.
To a young writer, getting published can seem a daunting task. The "In Print" festival, sponsored by the Ball State University English Department and now in its third year, gives aspiring authors the opportunity to meet newly-published writers and learn how they managed the difficult road to their first publication.
The attendance of 3,581 at Ball State University's second round home game in the WNIT exceeded the athletic department's expectations. To secure the second round home game, Ball State bid to pay a minimum of $8,296 to the Women's Collegiate Sports Association with the assumption 2,250 tickets would be sold for the game against the University of Kentucky, according to bid documents.
The Ball State University baseball team will start its 2007 Mid-American Conference season by celebrating its 2006 MAC Tournament championship. Before Sunday's final game of a three-game home series against University of Akron, Ball State athletics will hold the ring ceremony celebrating the championship that took the Cardinals to the NCAA Regionals last season.
We all have now finished our spring vacation, and the rest of the semester is staring us in the face. It is staring at us with papers to be written, presentations to be given and exams to be taken. But the best part is that we know it will be over in about six weeks.
TJ's Great Burgers on University Avenue in The Village will be closed for about five weeks before it reopens across the street. The restaurant will move into the former Little Havana Tobacco Cabana location, owner Richard Reece said. It has already moved most of its equipment and furniture to the new location, he said.
PART THREE OF A FIVE-PART SERIES: Credit cards, student loans and seemingly free money inundate college students. But eventually, college life ends, and it's time to pay the bill. Don't get stuck paying interest on that pizza you bought freshman year when you have bigger things on your plate.
