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Sunday's men's soccer match with Ohio State to be broadcast over World Wide Web
Oct. 19, 1999
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University is offering soccer fans an opportunity to follow the action when its men's soccer team plays Ohio State this Sunday (Oct. 24), even if they can't make it to Armstrong Stadium in Bloomington.
IU will videostream the entire game live on the World Wide Web. The game and broadcast will begin at 2 p.m. CDT. The Web address for the game will be http://broadcast.iu.edu/soccer102499. RealPlayer G2 will be needed to view the broadcast. For those who can't log on to see the action as it unfolds, the match will be archived for one month for rebroadcast on the Web.
IU has been a national leader in new uses of emerging communications technologies such as the Web, and was the first university to broadcast live on the Web a major collegiate soccer tournament. IU presented the adidas/IU Credit Union Soccer Classic Sept. 3-5 and also broadcast its men's soccer match with Penn State on Oct. 1.
This fall, the university began presenting major educational events live on the Web, including a panel discussion on youth violence prevention featuring His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and a concert that brought together two of the world's finest cellists -- Janos Starker and Mstislav Rostropovich -- on the same stage for the first time ever.
Upcoming broadcasts will include a Nov. 1 jazz concert and the IU Opera Theater's production of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica on Nov. 12.
The IU men's soccer team is coached by Jerry Yeagley, now in his 27th year at IU, who has led the Hoosiers to national titles in 1982, 1983, 1988 and 1998, 12 Final Four appearances, and seven Big Ten titles in the last eight years.
For more information about IU and its other Web events, go to http://www.indiana.edu
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)