The defending national champion Indiana University men’s soccer team will kick off the 2013 season with a bang, hosting perennial top 25 foes SMU and UCLA in the IU Classic on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1. The Hoosiers formally announced the 2013 schedule on Friday, one that includes 11 home matches and 12 against teams [...]

FINAL Indiana recovered well from that initial onslaught by Mexico, creating a number of opportunities to equalize at least. Best one might have been in stoppage time as Femi Hollinger-Janzen took a slip pass in the box from Jacob Bushue, stopped and turned but was dragged down before he could get a shot off as [...]

Friends and co-workers told former Indiana University goalkeeper Luis Soffner and his girlfriend, Kate Montgomery, that Marathon Monday was “something you’ve got to see and be a part of.” They were right, but for all the wrong reasons when two bombs exploded near the Boston Marathon finish on Boylston Street Monday. Soffner, now a member [...]

Former IU soccer standout Kevin Alston, now a member of the MLS’ New England Revolution, is taking an indefinite leave of absence after being diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia, the team announced Monday. Alston will undergo treatment for the rare but treatable disease. It is not expected to require hospitalization, and he expects to return [...]

Here’s the release from the Indiana University men’s soccer team on the 2013 recruiting class: BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University head men’s soccer coach Todd Yeagley announced today that forward Sean Cowdrey (Silver Spring, Md./DeMatha Catholic), defender Billy McConnell (Richboro, Pa./Council RockNorth), forward Tommy Thompson (Loomis, Calif./Granite Bay) and goalkeeper Colin Webb (San Diego, Calif./Rancho [...]

PRE-DRAFT I’m at the 2013 MLS SuperDraft, taking place this year starting at noon at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. The Hoosiers’ own Eriq Zavaleta expected to be taken in the top 10 here. I’ll update as we move along here and via Twitter. DRAFT PICKS 1. New England Revolution: Andrew Farrell, Louisville, D [...]

Soccer America announced the NCAA Division I Men’s Coach of the Year Monday, with the honor going to Indiana’s Todd Yeagley. Yeagley, who led the Hoosiers to their eighth national championship this season, is the first IU coach so honored since his father, Jerry Yeagley, won the award in 2003. Also honored by Soccer America [...]