Since firing Billy Taylor on March 14, Ball State athletic director Bill Scholl said he hoped to find a replacement around the time of the Final Four. Scholl made good on that deadline after the school announced on Saturday that James Whitford, former associate head coach at Arizona, would take over as head coach of the men’s basketball team.
Ball State swept Northern Illinois in the first home series of the season, as the team wasted no time getting on the board in either game of the double header.
Ball State women’s tennis team won 6-1 against the Toledo Rockets at home.
Former Notre Dame quarterback Gunner Kiel is at Ball State today for a recruiting visit, according to multiple reports.
North Korea has warned diplomats in its capital of Pyongyang that it can't guarantee the safety of embassies in the event of a conflict.
WASHINGTON — Two freshman Democratic senators from conservative states, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, have joined the growing chorus of lawmakers who say they support gay marriage.
WADSWORTH, Ill. — One person died and dozens of elementary school children were taken to hospitals Friday after a school bus crash in northern Illinois that left two cars mangled and the bus on its side, authorities said.
The world of film criticism lost its most important and influencial voice with the death of Roger Ebert yesterday. During his time writing for the Chicago Sun–Times, Ebert helped create the modern movie critic. Anyone trying to review movies certainly owes something to the work of Mr. Ebert.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Tim Pernetti is out as Rutgers athletic director, two days after the basketball coach was fired following a video that went public of Mike Rice shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using anti-gay slurs.
INDIANAPOLIS — A private jet coming in for an emergency landing bounced several times on the runway of a northern Indiana airport before crashing into nearby homes, killing two people and injuring three more, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Friday.
Since early January, before the season even started, No. 15 Ball State men’s volleyball coach Joel Walton stressed the amount of parity in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.
A University of Rochester professor's hypothetical question about whether the rape of an unconscious person should be illegal has led to demands he be censured or fired.
CHICAGO — Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who become the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation's most influential thumb, died Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He was 70.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he believes local school officials should make decisions about school security rather than being required to have an employee armed with a loaded gun during school hours.
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is not building a phone or an operating system. Rather, Facebook is introducing a mobile experience called "Home" that makes the social network the hub of any smartphone that runs Google's Android operating system.
AKRON, Ohio — A self-styled street preacher was sentenced to death Thursday in the killings of three down-and-out men lured by bogus job offers posted on Craigslist.
Playing off Jimmy Kimmel’s “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” bit, 72 HRS brings you “Grill My Professors.” We’re currently collecting reactions from Ball State professors as they read not-so-nice reviews on their ratemyprofessors.com page. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come.
With graduation a month away, some students have feared that Ball State’s iconic Frog Baby statue wouldn’t return in time for that final picture.
