Ball State University will welcome its first round of about 180 incoming students to campus today for their freshman orientation as part of a large incoming freshman class. Ball State University will welcome its first round of about 180 incoming students to campus today for their freshman orientation as part of a large incoming freshman class. The orientation group is the first of 22 sessions scheduled for the summer to introduce Ball State's campus to freshmen enrolled for the 2006-07 academic year.
What is the measure for a hero? Hollywood, for the most part, sends us the idea that a hero is a man with a knife in his teeth and one bullet in his magazine. The guy who saves the world from destruction is absolutely is a hero. Heroes, however, come in all shapes and sizes, living among us, blending in just as heroes do.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The University of Kentucky's lineup consists of four hitters with 10 or more home runs. Its team batting average going into the game was a glistening .296. Pitcher Ben Snyder should have felt the pressure. Instead, he had the Wildcat batters begging for mercy.
The Ball State University baseball team earned a trip to the NCAA Regional with a 7-4 victory over Kent State University on Saturday. The Cardinals take on the University on Kentucky on Friday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Twenty-four hours after recording the biggest win in school history, the Ball State University baseball team saw a reversal of fortune in the second round of the NCAA Regional. The Cardinals managed just five hits and only got one runner past second base as the College of Charleston slaughtered BSU 11-0 on Saturday.
When Porter Goss stepped down as CIA chief, he left open arguably the most important position in the United States Government with regards to the safety and well-being of the American people. The position as leader of the Central Intelligence Agency is vital in maintaining our security and staying one step ahead of those who may be plotting to do us harm.
Full disclosure - two words used in newsrooms when people bring the news, and the truth, out into the open. Buried - a word media people use to describe stories that don't appear in plain view of the average reader - especially a story the newspaper might not want everyone to see right away.
In 1971, Hall of Famer Ted Williams wrote the book "The Science of Hitting", his extremely detailed fundamental guide on how to hit a baseball and the thought process behind it. Ball State University first baseman Brad Miller, however, does not follow the philosophies of the "Splendid Splinter.
After an entire week of digging through a horse farm in Michigan, the FBI has announced an end to its search for the missing body of mafia legend Jimmy Hoffa. Unfortunately, no evidence as to its whereabouts was uncovered. The public will be pleased to note, however, that the hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted on looking for it can now be redirected back into finding out - once and for all - the exact number of licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.
Oprah calls it multitasking - doing many tasks at once. It's an everyday vocabulary word nowadays. I know that my friends and I find ourselves doing several things at once all the time. It's what we have to do to keep up with work and school. Free time is nonexistent to me if I don't do several things at once.
A 35-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure in Bracken Library last week had been seen in a similar situation earlier this year, a Ball State library official said Wednesday. Brian Saparnis, assistant sports editor for The Star Press, was found masturbating in the library's Educational Resource Center by two staff members May 24, Dean of University Libraries Arthur Hafner said.
The Ball State University baseball team has made the field of 64 teams that were invited to participate in the 2006 NCAA Baseball Tournament. The Cardinals (37-20) are fresh off a Mid-American Conference Tournament championship in which they went 4-0, and will be the No.
Louis Jones n Chief Reporter The Ball State Museum of Art will present two new exhibitions this summer which are varied in style and intended audience. "We've been working on this for 14 months," museum director Peter Blume said of "Reordering the Universe" and "Creatures of the Sea and Sky.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Going into turn four on the final lap of the Indianapolis 500, it looked as if 19-year-old Marco Andretti was going to become the youngest winner ever at the Brickyard. Instead, the Andretti family experienced yet another Indy disappointment, this one courtesy of Sam Hornish Jr.
The Ball State University soccer team is losing another valuable member to the University of Iowa. Just a little more than three months after former Cardinals head coach Ron Rainey took the job as the head coach at Iowa, junior goaltender Alison Becker will follow him to the Big 10 school.
The duo of seniors Matt Baccarani and Patrick Thompson fell short in the doubles bracket at the 2006 NCAA Men's Tennis Championships at Stanford University.-á Coming into the tournament ranked 15th nationally, Baccarani and Thompson were defeated 6-1, 6-4 by the third ranked duo of Andre Begemann and Scott Doerner of Pepperdine University.
INDIANAPOLIS - Andretti is one of the most well-known and well-respected names in open-wheel racing. Unfortunately for the family, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has not treated them with much generosity. Ever since Mario Andretti won the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing" in 1969, Mario, his son Michael and Michael's son Marco have all been snake-bitten at the Brickyard.
The Ball State University soccer team is losing another valuable member to the University of Iowa. Just a little more than three months after former Cardinals head coach Ron Rainey took the job as the head coach at Iowa, junior goaltender Alison Becker will follow him to the Big 10 school.
Two baseball players from Ball State University, first baseman Brad Miller and center fielder Justin Rogers, were named to the Mid-American Conference All-Conference team. Miller, a senior, earned first-team honors. He leads the MAC with a .688 slugging percentage, 21 home runs and 75 RBIs, setting Ball State single season records in homers and RBIs.
