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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 [...]
President Emeritus Modesto A. Maidique led the university community in a discussion about leadership, values and ethical issues raised by the Penn State scandal “This is a case of a distorted culture that has wrapped itself around a football team,” said President Emeritus Modesto A. Maidique at an FIU teach-in [...]
FIU’s Athletics weight room will be named for Doctors Hospital Center for Orthopedics & Sports Medicine. Doctors Hospital, part of Baptist Health South Florida, is the official sports medicine provider of FIU Athletics. “This is the latest in a deepening relationship between Baptist Health and FIU,” said FIU Executive Director [...]
FIU hosts Florida Atlantic in the 2011 Shula Bowl Saturday, Nov. 12, at Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium. The annual football game between in-state rivals is the last home game of the season, as well as the last home game for wide receiver T.Y. Hilton and quarterback Wes Carroll with the [...]
Join the official watch party for FIU’s football game at Arkansas State Tuesday, Oct. 18, at Cadillac Ranch – Kendall. Roary, the Golden Dazzlers, the Cheerleaders and FIU football announcer Mike Baiamonte will be cheering on the Panthers beginning at 7 p.m. The Cadillac Ranch – Kendall, located at 11735 [...]
Join the fun at the home opener Thursday, Sept. 1 FIU Football’s 10th season opens Thursday, Sept. 1, with the Panthers ready to defend their Sun Belt Conference Championship and build on last year’s historic success. The 7 p.m. match-up brings the North Texas Mean Green to FIU Stadium in [...]
Panthers fan Lavarr Farmer had plenty to cheer about last season. Farmer, a sophomore biology major, witnessed the historic FIU football season where the Panthers won six of their eight Sun Belt Conference games, clinched their first conference crown and their first-ever bowl berth. Actually, he saw a lot of [...]
