After more than a seven month coaching search, Ball State announced Tuesday that former Evansville head coach and 23-year-old Christine Bader will be the Cardinals coach for the upcoming season.
The Cardinals (28-27, 19-8) understand their season isn't lost just because they failed to win the MAC regular season title and the No. 1 seed that accompanies it. Instead, Ball State will open the MAC Tournament Wednesday at 9 a.m. against Bowling Green State University.
Stores in the Village businesses adjust to the lack of revenue during the summer because of the fewer students on Ball State's campus.
All dining areas on Ball State University have been closed since the start of the summer session with the expection to the Tally in the L.A. Pittenger Student Canter — leaving many Ball State students frustrated at the lack of selection and the long walk across campus to get food.
With spring coming to an end and summer approaching, Muncie will be celebrating the second annual Spring Carnival next week.
Four Ball State University students were awarded Fulbright scholarships for the 2010 - 2011 academic year, the highest number of honorees for Ball State in one year, while another student received an Udall scholarship.
FORT WAYNE — Former Rep. Mark Souder planned to end his re-election campaign even before his extramarital affair with a female aide became known because he was burned out from more than 15 years in Congress, he said in an interview published Sunday.
Former Ball State University ace and former No. 1 overall draft pick Bryan Bullington made his return to the Major Leagues with Kansas City. Having been a starter for much of his career, Bullington is now coming out of the bullpent. However, after years in the minors has he is just happy to be back in the Major Leagues, no matter what his role was.
Nine Ball State University graduates were selected to receive the 2010 Graduate of the Last Decade Award, which the university hands out to alumni who have demonstrated personal and professional achievement, community involvement and commiment to Ball State within the first 10 years of graduation.
While many orchids at Ball State's Christy Woods are donated legally from across the nation and across the world, some found a second home in east central Indiana after they were recovered from orchid smugglers looking to cash-in on the world's rarest and most threatened plants.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship will begin its first ever Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship in two weeks with 20 qualifying fellows participating in the inaugural class at Ball State University — one of the first sites chosen by the foundation.
Ball State (43-16) allowed three runs in the final inning as its season ended in the elimination game against the University of Louisville 5-1 on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn.
It was six years ago when passengers aboard flight 815 crashed in an unknown island in the middle of the pacific. It took six seasons for many questions developed through the show "Lost" to be answered.
Senior Katie Johnson was selected Friday to compete in the 100-meter hurdles race at regionals for the third time in her four-year college career.
Assistant geography professor David Call had studied tornadoes for years, but he had never seen one as close as he did in the summer of 2008 when he led a group of students storm chasing to study their formation.
Just six outs away from a regular season Mid-American Conference championship, the Cardinals were unable to hold a four-run lead. The Rockets scored the final five runs against a shaky Cardinals' bullpen to win 8-7 and become the first MAC team in more than a year to win a series against Ball State.
Shortstop T.J. Baumet separated his shoulder in the seventh inning of Ball State's 8-7 loss at the University of Toledo, coach Greg Beals said.
Toledo scored five runs in the final two innings to win 8-7 Saturday, becoming the first MAC team in more than a year to defeat Ball State in a series.
In its first NCAA Tournament game in 12 years, Ball State lost to No. 15 Tennessee 5-0 in the first round of the double-elimination NCAA Regionals on Friday in Knoxville, Tenn.
The Cardinals kept their MAC regular season championship hopes alive with an 8-7 victory in 10 innings Friday. Ball State (28-26, 19-7) came from behind twice to remain in first place.
