IU athletics

Don Fischer has been calling IU football and men’s basketball games for more than 50 years as the school’s official play-by-play announcer.

Bob Knight, the legendary and often controversial former Hoosier men’s basketball head coach, died Nov. 1, 2023. He was 83.

Milton “Milt” G. Campbell Sr., ’57, was the first African American to win Olympic gold in the decathlon. Campbell was a senior in high school when he won his first…

There was an easy trick to spot an IU Olympian at this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo: Where there was a pool, there was most likely a Hoosier. Swimming, diving,…

Star of IU’s only unbeaten football team. First African American player drafted into the NFL. Champion of IU integration. Beginning with football but finishing far beyond, George Taliaferro, BS’51, found…

As the first African American basketball player to compete regularly in the Big Ten, Bill Garrett, BS’51, was a trailblazer for Indiana University. Some 70 years later, Garrett, who died…

Sometimes you can trace a man’s accomplishments back to his childhood. For Oliver Cellini, BS’35, two experiences stand out and seem to have set the trajectory for the arc of…