Author: Mike Schumann

IU baseball legend Kyle Schwarber is a Major League Baseball All-Star once again. The 33-year-old Schwarber will make his fourth All-Star appearance on July 14. Schwarber leads MLB with 30 home runs, and the NL with a .570 slugging percentage. He is fourth in baseball with a .935 OPS. Schwarber won the 2025 All-Star MVP Award when he went 3-for-3 in a home run swing-off in Atlanta. The 96th Midsummer Classic will be played in Schwarber’s home stadium.  The MLB All-Star Game, in the country’s 250th year, will be played in Philadelphia, the nation’s birthplace. Schwarber is one of six…

Class of 2028 wing Keaton Murry is a name to know for IU basketball. The IU staff offered Murry a scholarship last month after an impressive spring. A product of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the 6-foot-4 Murry attends Putnam City North H.S., a team that reached the 6A state semifinals in 2025-26.  He averaged 10.8 points per game as a sophomore and was named honorable mention All-State. In the average of the national rankings, Murry is a 4-star, the No. 58 overall player in the 2028 class, and the No. 18 shooting guard.  He’s ranked the No. 1 player in Oklahoma…

NBA Summer League 2026 is returning to Las Vegas and will feature all 30 NBA teams from July 9-19, 2026 at the Thomas & Mack Center and Pavilion on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. All 76 games of the 11-day competition will air live on Prime Video or ESPN platforms (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN+). Prior to the action in Las Vegas, the 2026 California Classic will be held in two locations with the Warriors and Kings serving as dual hosts. The Warriors will host games at the Chase Center in San Francisco on July 3, 5-6. The Kings…

College football was getting very predictable for a while. Alabama. Clemson. Rinse. Repeat. Although still among the traditional powers of the sport — LSU, Georgia and Michigan brought some fresh names to the stage from 2019 to 2023 as the talent pool seemed to begin flattening. But things were still fairly predictable.  Those teams didn’t come from nowhere.  In fact, no matter which team won the national title in the College Football Playoff era beginning in 2014, they all had one thing in common.  They were all in the preseason top-six in the AP Poll. That was of course, until…

Former IU basketball star Victor Oladipo is not giving up on his professional basketball career. After playing 15 games in the G League in 2025-26, Oladipo took to social media this week to announce he’s still pursuing opportunities. “I’m a free agent. I don’t have an agent right now just me and my family,” Oladipo wrote.  “I know I have a lot left, and I genuinely love this game. I’d rather show you I’m ready than spend my time trying to explain why or flood you with analytics to prove it. “If you’re about winning, value mentorship, and think there…

Class of 2028 wing Will Brunson is an IU basketball recruiting name to know. Indiana offered Brunson a scholarship in June. The 6-foot-6 Brunson announced this week he is transferring to IMG Academy for his junior high school season.  He attended Rutgers Prep in New Jersey as a sophomore and scored 22.2 points per game to go with 8.4 rebounds and 3.5 assists. He also hit 53 three-pointers on the season and helped his team reach the Non-Public B state semifinals. In the average of the national rankings, Brunson is a 4-star prospect, the No. 23 player in the 2028…

Former IU defensive star Marcelino McCrary-Ball saw three postseason appearances in his six years in Bloomington. But of course he never saw anything quite like the 2025 Indiana Hoosiers. No one had. At IU from 2016 to 2021, McCrary-Ball experienced the highs and lows.  He played in the 2016 Foster Farms Bowl and the 2019 Gator Bowl, and watched with an injury as his teammates played in the 2020 Outback Bowl.  It was actually a pretty good run for the Hoosiers. McCrary-Ball also saw a pair of 5-7 seasons in 2017 and 2018, and a miserable 2-10 season to wrap-up…

The 2026-27 college basketball season is just four months away.  And rosters are fairly locked in at this point. IU basketball does still have one open roster spot, but it doesn’t appear to this point we’ll see a pivotal addition to the team, if any. In our last look at several preseason too-early top-25s, Indiana was a fairly consistent No. 20 to No. 30 team, and that’s where the Hoosiers remain in ESPN’s July update. Jeff Borzello of that outlet has the Hoosiers in his “next five” at No. 29. Borzello’s top team in the Big 10 this season?  The…

Former IU baseball star Kyle Schwarber is on pace for another monster season with the Philadelphia Phillies. Just past the season’s midpoint, Schwarber has a Major League Baseball best 30 home runs, four more than second place.  He has reached 30 or more home runs in each of his last five seasons, and he’s the ninth player in MLB history to hit 30-plus home runs in each of their first five seasons with a franchise.  He joins greats such as Babe Ruth, Manny Ramirez and Albert Pujols on that list. Now at 370 home runs for his 12-year career, the…

Indiana offered class of 2028 wing Isaac Smith this week. A product of Danville, Virginia, Smith attends Monarch Academy in Kansas City, Kansas. In the average of the national rankings, the 6-foot-5 Smith is a 4-star, the No. 38 overall player in the 2028 class, and the No. 9 small forward. Smith is a classic wing, with length, athleticism and the ability to both shoot from the perimeter and score off the bounce. As a sophomore, Smith attended Hargrave Military Academy, where he averaged 17.8 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per contest. For travel basketball Smith plays for Team…