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If you’ve been to an FIU football game, you’ve probably seen FIU’s Blue Man. The second-year architecture student is positively blue with FIU pride. FIU Magazine caught up with him recently to learn about his blue-hue beauty secrets and plans for the football season. Were you “Born This Way”? Funny [...]
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 [...]
By Pete Pelegrin ’96 MAYBE THEY KNEW A boisterous, energetic, record crowd of 19,872 filled FIU Stadium for the season opener against Rutgers. The Panthers led the Scarlet Knights 14-13 in the fourth quarter before falling, but as nearly 20,000 would see, this was a different FIU team this season. [...]
Game time is set for 3:30 p.m. for FIU’s next home football game — a critical conference match-up between rival Arkansas State on Saturday, Nov. 27. After clawing their way to the top of the Sun Belt Conference standings with a dominating 38-17 win over Lousiana-Lafayette, the Panthers look to finish [...]
The FIU football team tied a program-record with four rushing touchdowns en route to a 28-21 victory over the WKU Hilltoppers Oct. 9 at FIU Stadium. The win, FIU’s first of the season, is all the more important as it comes on FIU’s Sun Belt Conference opener. The Panthers got [...]
The FIU football home opener on Sept. 11 vs. Rutgers will kick off with the unfurling of a 100-yard long American flag, helicopter flyovers and the debut of FIU’s new marching band. The game will pay tribute to first responders and the military. FIU is offering complimentary tickets for all [...]
Volleyball has been a bright light for athletics at FIU. Home to multiple All-Americans, conference titles and an international cast of student-athletes, it has captured the interest of the FIU Panther faithful. Leading the team this year are two seniors, Ines Medved and Natalia Valentin. Valentin, entering her third year [...]
The Panthers will face off against Troy and South Alabama in SBC action at U.S. Century Bank Arena at MMC. Following away-game victories against North Texas and Denver, FIU’s unstoppable volleyball team will come home on Friday, Oct. 16, to face off against Troy in a Sun Belt Conference (SBC) [...]
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