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Showing posts with label Indiana soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indiana soccer. Show all posts

Sunday, September 1, 2013

#1-ranked Indiana Hoosiers, defending NCAA Mens Soccer Champs, host #9 UCLA Bruins on the BigTenNetwork today at 2 p.m.; @IUMensSoccer, #Hoosiers, #IUMS, @HoosierArmy,@JBushue17, @BTN_Indiana, #FillTheBill


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I never get tired of seeing this -I agree!
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My last three blog posts on the Soccer Hoosier squad were these posts:
December 10, 2012 
The #8thStar fell in Alabama! Hoosiers’ Quest For Eight is Mission Accomplished! Hoosier goalie Luis Soffner pitches third shut-out in a row in leading Hoosiers to 1-0 win over Georgetown to earn their 8th NCAA soccer title; Jordan Hulls shows Hoosier Pride!; #Q48, #8thSTAR, @JordanHulls1

December 9, 2012 
Quest for 8: IU's Soccer Hoosiers battle Georgetown today at 2 p.m. Eastern for 8th NCAA Mens Soccer title; @IUMensSoccer, ‏@HoosierArmy, @KirkwoodBar in Chicago

December 7, 2012
IU's Soccer Hoosiers face Creighton in NCAA College Cup 2nd Semifinal at 7:30 p.m. tonight on ESPNU for record 18th College Cup appearance; Georgetown plays Maryland in opener at 5 p.m.

 Official IU Soccer team web page:
http://www.iuhoosiers.com/sports/m-soccer/ind-m-soccer-body.html

 Big Ten Network @BigTenNetwork  https://twitter.com/BigTenNetwork
@BTN_Indiana  https://twitter.com/BTN_Indiana
Indiana Athletics @OurIndiana  https://twitter.com/OurIndiana
http://www.idsnews.com/blogs/hoosierhype/


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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Filming John Mellencamp "A Ride Back Home" at IU

While looking for something in the Indy Star this morning, I came across this short behind-the-scenes video of John Mellencamp singing and shooting a video that was filmed on campus at IU's awesomely beautiful Beck Chapel.  http://www.iub.edu/tour/cmps7.shtml

This intimate chapel, which I've been in many times over the years for either ceremonies or weddings, is located just east of the main entrance to The IMU, the Indiana Memorial Union 
-"the largest student union in the world" as we were always quick and proud to remind visitors- which is in the original part of campus, complete with a very comfortable hotel, huge bookstore, and tons of offices, restaurants and lounges to eat, study or people watch, some even with fireplaces, which is especially great in the winter when your nose and eyeballs feel frozen. 

This huge building was where I spent the most majority of my time on campus in Bloomington when I wasn't in class, because the two student organizations I was most involved with had their offices located there, in The Tower: the IU Student Alumni Council, and the IU Student Athletic Board, SAB, which is the group that works intimately with IU's Athletics Dept. in many different areas.

At one of the popular apartment complexes I lived in off-campus, I twice had two female housemates, the second time being with two very cute sisters, one blonde and the other brunette, who had appeared in one of John's very first videos, which was also filmed on campus.
They never tired of telling people about it.

This was back when the geniuses at CBS Records had him recording under the name Johnny Cougar. (Because Dash Riprock was already taken on The Beverly Hillbillies, I guess.)
Ironically, the same record executive who came up with that particular name had also re-christened David Jones as David Bowie.  Well, one out of two isn't so bad!

Attending IU when I did, from 1979-'83, it was right when John -from nearby Seymour- was really starting to make a reputation for himself as someone with talent and heart who gives it his all every show.
John has literally given millions of dollars in donations to IU over the past 25 years, 
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/4-21-2000/text/mellencamp.htm  and actually has a building named after him on campus, the John Mellencamp Pavillion.
 
John's nephew, also named John Mellencamp, is a starter on IU's perennial top Top Ten soccer team, which is a seven-time NCAA champion, most recently in 2004.  http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/mellencamp_john00.html

After lots of close calls, our first NCAA soccer title came in December of 1982 in a multiple overtime game win at Fort Lauderdale's Lockhart Stadium, which I was fortunate enough to attend because it coincided with IU's Christmas Break, a great bit of serendipity for me.
After the victory, after celebrate with my friends up in the stands and then down on the sidelines, we headed for the Sheraton Yankee Trader Hotel where the team was staying, where fans, players, coaches, school officials and parents and family partied long into the night.

Speaking of Hoosier soccer, since I haven't mentioned it previously, one of the great things about having the Big Ten Network on DirecTV is actually being able to watch IU soccer games, especially those at home at Armstrong Stadium, which is also home to The Little 500 Bike Race, a.k.a. "Little Five."  http://www.iub.edu/tour/cvrs4.shtml

Also making an appearance on this video is singer Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town.
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This article has a nice photo of John with his wife Elaine Irwin-Mellencamp, who is the popular face of Almay products, and whose TV ads. like her beautiful smile, are very hard to miss.

The Indianapolis Star
Mellencamp films new video at IU's Beck Chapel
February 17, 2009

and http://www.indystar.com/section/comment?&key=20090216.indystar.BG902160395.article.ENTERTAINMENT&s=a

After initially embedding the Mellencamp video here, I was running into lots of problems with the audio coming on -and staying on!- so I've chosen to replace it with a link to John's own website, where you can see it without any audio or video problems.

http://www.mellencamp.com/?module=news&news_item_id=353

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