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Get a sneak peek of the new Marlins Park and support FIU baseball. The Panthers will face off against the Miami Marlins in an exhibition game Wednesday, March 7. The game will be held at the new ballpark (1390 N.W. 7th St.) at 7:10 p.m. Tickets are $10 and get [...]
FIU Football will be holding walk-on tryouts Friday, Feb. 24, at 2 p.m. at the R. Kirk Landon Fieldhouse. Some of the most memorable Panthers have been walk-ons, including linebacker Toronto Smith, defensive lineman Armond Willis and defensive backs Jose Cheeseborough and O’Darris D’Haiti. To be eligible to participate you [...]
As recently as last week, Panthers point guard Jerica Coley listed her two state high school championship tennis titles as her biggest sports accomplishment to date. By season’s end, the sophomore may be forced to reassess her biggest athletic feat. With only seven games left in the regular season, the [...]
FIU football signed its largest, highest-rated and best academic recruiting class on National Signing Day, Feb. 1. Head coach Mario Cristobal said this class is a sign of things to come. “We spent our first years trying to build a competitive football team. Now our focus is building a great [...]
New season kicks off with legendary major leaguer at Feb. 11 fundraiser Coming off a 2010 Sun Belt championship and back-to-back NCAA regional appearances, the FIU baseball team will chase the next step in the program’s growth in 2012. It all starts with the annual Diamond Dinner Saturday, Feb. 11, [...]
FIU and the PGA World Golf Championship have partnered to offer golf fans the opportunity to attend the Cadillac Championship in Doral March 7-11 and support the FIU First Generation Fund If you enjoy golf and like giving back, FIU and the PGA World Golf Championship have just the ticket [...]
Sophomore Jerica Coley has been named Sun Belt Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week, as voted on by the league’s head coaches on Jan. 9. The honor marks the second of the campaign for Coley and the third of her career. A Preseason First Team All-SBC pick, Coley led [...]
The FIU swimming team kicked off 2012 with a win at the Orange Bowl Swimming Classic at the Jacob’s Aquatic Center in Key Largo Jan. 3. The Panthers won top honors in the women’s division, besting George Mason, which took second place, and the University of Vermont, which finished third. [...]
Danijela Tomic, who has led FIU’s volleyball team to numerous records and history-making wins as head coach for seven years, will leave the university to serve as head coach at Bowling Green State University. During her time at FIU, the three-time Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year developed the [...]
A blocked punt by Marshall in the fourth quarter set up what proved to be the game-winning field goal as the FIU Panthers fell, 20-10, Tuesday night in the 2011 Beef ’O’ Brady’s Bowl in St. Petersburg. “We won eight games this year. [FIU head] coach [Mario] Cristobal has done [...]
