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FIU’s football team got everyone’s attention last season with its first championship and bowl win. Now they are hungry for more By Pete Pelegrin ’96 Walk into the FIU football offices and you are greeted by the sparkling gold 2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Champions trophy and the 2010 Sun Belt [...]
Star player T.Y. Hilton pushed himself this summer so he can defend FIU’s Sun Belt Conference championship By Pete Pelegrin ’96 If you were looking for T.Y. Hilton this off-season as he prepared for his upcoming senior season you were likely to find him on the beach or with his parents [...]
Football Head Coach Mario Cristobal has been named Miami’s Coach of the Year by Miami New Times as a part of its Best of 2011 feature. Cristobal, the 2010 Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year, is coming off his fourth season at the helm of the Panthers. A season [...]
They were believers long before the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl victory. Now Michael Maher ’97, Frank Peña ’99, Alberto Padron ’98, MBA ’09 and Eddie Hondal ’88, MS ’00 want you to join them at FIU Stadium By Deborah O’Neil MA ’09 When the gut-wrenching moment arrived in Detroit’s Ford Field [...]
By Pete Pelegrin ’96 Kyle Field in College Station, Texas – Home of the 12th Man — is one of the most hostile stadiums to play in for an opposing college football team. Yet that notion was lost on the FIU Panthers this past September. That night on Texas A&M’s home [...]
More than two thousand fans joined the 2010 football team to celebrate FIU’s Sun Belt and Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Championship at the Hot-n-Ready Panther Party Jan. 28. Students, faculty, staff and alumni cheered as the team took the stage in the Graham Center Ballrooms. Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz presented the [...]
The FIU family had a lot to celebrate in 2010. College of Law faculty members ranked most diverse in the nation and the school was named a Top 10 Best Value; the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine launched the Green Family NeighborhoodHelp project, which pairs every medical student with a household [...]
As the moment drew near for FIU to compete in its first bowl game, the 2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, the university community took to the Internet to share this special moment. A continuous stream of updates, opinions and pure enthusiasm from students, alumni and the community at large poured onto [...]
