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(04/13/11 12:58am)
They pedal faster than a football player sprints the 40-yard dash. They end up in packs around tight turns and they are almost always drifting off the tire in front of them, so it's no surprise, like in all good races, that there are some epic crashes.
(04/12/11 2:03am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In the summer of 2009, Eric Stearley found himself alone among a house of brothers.His fraternity, Sigma Pi, had been kicked off campus, and his Little 500 bike team went with it.The rookie rider knew how important a cycling team would be to the bonds of brotherhood when Sigma Pi was allowed back on campus in the fall of 2010, so he set out to rebuild a program.The bikes Sigma Pi had were in disrepair and funds were dry, so Stearley turned to the only people he knew could help: his brothers.He called alumni riders and brothers to ask for donations, raising close to $2,000 for team kits and other team gear. He lobbied Sigma Pi’s Executive Council to set aside social funds for the bike team. And his brothers backed him the whole way.Now a junior, Stearley is on a team with three freshmen. All four riders have no Little 500 race experience.Freshman rider Nick Donato said the bike team has been important to the rebirth of Sigma Pi, especially since they did not think they were good enough to qualify.“Sigma Pi used to be pretty prestigious in cycling,” Donato said. “We got kicked off and lost some of our riders who would have been on the team. It’s like a new beginning since we’re all so young with three freshmen. It’s just another brick of building Sigma Pi back up to what it used to be.”Donato attributed the rebuilding of Sigma Pi cycling to Stearley.“I’ve never met a harder-working and committed guy than him,” Donato said. “He is juggling 17 credit hours and a job and the cycling team, but he found us sponsors. He’s a good leader and he’s good at pushing you. I hate him while I’m out there cycling, but that’s a good thing because he’s pushing me.”This wasn’t the first time Stearley took the reins of something he badly wanted. In high school, he was the only swimmer for his high school. He and his athletic director worked together to allow Stearley to train with another team but race for his school. “The swimming kind of started and ended with me, sadly,” Stearley said. “Unfortunately I couldn’t really build that up like I’ve done with the cycling team.”But what happened with his swim team, Stearly said, won’t happen with his cycling team.“I’m training these freshmen to take it over when I get out of here,” he said. “I don’t want to seem like I’m the sole responsibility for it. Obviously there are seven other guys who I couldn’t do this without. There’s no such thing as a one-man Little 500 team. I see a long life with Sigma Pi Cycling.”On March 26, the day of Qualifications, Sigma Pi members sat for close to an hour, holding their breaths and watching their time card move down the qualifications board. Their time of 2:40.23 was 15 seconds slower than the team at the top of the pole.It would be good enough for 33rd place.“It’s a very young team, for sure,” Stearley said. “There’s not a lot of experience, but it’s going well. We don’t expect huge things this year just because we’re rebuilding. We’re trying to get back up where we used to be as a top-10 team. It’s been a lot of work, but it’s definitely enjoyable.”
(04/11/11 7:14pm)
This is the true post of Little 500 riders picked to have their lives surrounding America's Greatest College Weekend posted to the web. To find out what happens when the IDS stops just reporting and starts getting real...check here for The Real Ride -- Little 500 style.
(04/11/11 5:59pm)
There are only four days left until the women's race, five days for the men and Indiana University has found a way to extend the Greatest College Weekend into an entire week.
(04/11/11 4:08am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ken Nowakowski yelled splits at his Delta Tau Delta riders as they came out of turn four of their first heat. The Delts coach stood with his left foot forward as an IU emergency medical technician attempted to wrap Nowakowski’s back leg.Though Nowakowski was injured, he was doing his job. These splits were important to his team, a squad that would later go on to win Team Pursuit, the final Spring Series event.On the previous lap, Black Key Bulls’ rider Jack Rich had rubbed tires with his teammate, causing him to shoot off the track and directly at Nowakowski. The BKB rider and Delts coach collided, throwing Rich from his bike and leaving Nowakowski’s right foot bloodied.As the heat continued, Nowakowski shook the EMT from his foot as he watched his team round turn four again.“The team needed me,” Nowakowski said. “I’m not going to back away from the team. I was fine. I wasn’t hurt. Even if I couldn’t stand, I’d be laying on the ground calling their splits.”At the end of the heat, Delts finished with a time of 9:10.19, good enough to send them to the finals where they would meet Sigma Chi, who had finished with a time of 9:08.21 prior to the final heat. It was a 10th of a second faster than the Cutters, who missed the final heat for the second year in a row.Final HeatDelta Tau Delta — 9:07.39Sigma Chi — 9:09.91
(04/11/11 4:05am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Will Bruin no longer charged down the field with the ball at his feet. Rich Balchan no longer defended the backfield. Andy Adlard no longer flipped after the goals.Three IU men’s soccer players from last season were gone, now playing on their respective Major League Soccer teams. However, that didn’t stop the post-Bruin squad from scoring five goals in a lopsided 5-2 win against Evansville, its first of two spring season home games on Jerry Yeagley Field. Senior Alec Purdie scored two goals and junior Joe Tolen also stood out. Tolen ended last season with momentum, scoring the game-winning goal against Northwestern and earning IU the Big Ten regular season title. “People are looking at me to lead a little more,” Tolen said. “I really do like that. I’m trying to take advantage of it and just guide the younger players as much as I can.” On Friday evening, Tolen played only the second half. But that didn’t stop him from scoring two goals in his first four minutes and assisting Purdie’s final goal.Bruin, Balchan and Adlard combined scored 25 goals last season — Bruin owned 18 of them. IU coach Todd Yeagley said to produce those goals next year, the scoring will have to be spread throughout the team, not just one person. “It’s not going to be another Will,” Yeagley said. “You don’t replace 18 goals. You do it by getting 10 to 20 to 30 percent more scoring from four to five players.”Despite the 5-2 win, Yeagley said he still hopes to see a change in the team’s personality.“We need to get a dominate personality,” Yeagley said. “We’re still not tough enough mentally and physically.”Still, Yeagley sees promise in a team that lost three players to MLS, yet still beat Evansville 5-2.“One game, five goals,” Yeagley said. “I’m not going to overreact that we’ve got solutions to 18 goals and (seven) from Andy, but I do feel we’re going to be pretty dynamic and have a lot of different ways to beat teams.“
(04/10/11 12:57am)
After a one-hour rain delay and several teams taking spills on the track, the final teams crossed the start/finish line as the winner of Team Pursuit, the fourth and final Spring Series Event before the Little 500 races on Friday and Saturday.
(04/09/11 2:53am)
In its first home game in four and a half months, the IU men's soccer team looked crisp and quick in its game against Evansville.
(04/08/11 2:55am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Seven days remain until the start of the Little 500. But before the race begins, a Spring Series champion must be crowned.Team Pursuit, the final Spring Series event before the Little 500 race, is set to start at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bill Armstrong Stadium.Two teams will face off in a 12-lap race for the women and 15-lap race for the men. The team must ride in a pace line. It’s an event where a team is only as fast as its third-fastest rider, since the clock doesn’t stop until three team riders have crossed the line.The two fastest teams compete in a final heat to determine the winner.In 2010, Gray Goat Cycling finished seventh in Team Pursuit with a time of 9:38.59. Senior rider Ryan Kiel said the event is more about conserving energy than riding fast.“It’s a little bit longer lap set than ITTs (Individual Time Trials),” Kiel said. “When you’re with a group of four riders, it’s really about doing your work on the front of the pack and knowing when to pull off smooth rotations and keep the group tight. It’s also a little more strategy than there is in ITTs where it’s just ‘Go fast, turn left.’”Last year, Teter and Phi Delta Theta won Team Pursuit. The Team Pursuit winner, for both sides of the field, has finished in the top three on race day for seven of the last nine Team Pursuit competitions.Delta Chi third-year rider Will McDermott said the event is a good measure of a team’s depth.“Even though it’s only 12 laps, 15 laps overall, it’s a good indication of your overall team and your top three riders,” McDermott said.This year’s event will determine who wins the white jersey, given to the team awarded the most points from Spring Series events. In the standings, Teter currently leads Delta Gamma by three points. The Cutters are ahead of Phi Delta Theta by 13 points.“I’ve gotten school set up so I can take it lightly during the next few weeks,” Kiel said. “As a senior, most of the butterflies don’t come anymore. For me, it’s just business as usual.”
(04/08/11 2:20am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It took three hours and 205 cups of chocolate snack pack pudding for Brice Fox and Daniel Weber to fill a baby pool for one small portion of their newest video.The stars of the YouTube Hoosier videos “IU Anthem” and “This Is Indiana” had one last idea on their senior checklist to cross off, and they needed pudding to make it a success.IU tailgates: been there. Hoosier basketball: done that.All that remained in Bloomington was the Little 500 — and one pudding match — to describe the World’s Greatest College Weekend.Weber and Fox didn’t just want a song about being on a bike or riding with no handlebars. This one was going to be about the Little 500 experience — or as they like to call it, iLL 5.The video is debuting Friday on YouTube and the song will be free to download through a link with the video.“iLL 5 represents the fictional, magical five days that precede the Little 500 race,” Fox said. “It consists of crazy, outrageous events. And basically, iLL is just like a slang term for cool, so it’s like the cool five days before the race.”***On the second floor of a house on Hunter Avenue, Weber is jumping around the bedroom-turned-studio of Daniel Olson, better known as DJ O.He’s running through his part again, trying to get the words down.“And the party don’t stop / Cuz every night lookin’ like GLOWfest / Every day lookin’ like no rest.” Weber hums the line over and over.DJ O’s eyes haven’t really moved from his side-by-side Dell screens. His mouse travels across his mouse pad in erratic patterns. He tweaks the beat and puts some last-second changes to the mix.Fox and Weber bob their heads as they listen.As the beat ends, Weber, in his “FAME” Dope Couture shirt, throws on a pair of shutter shades.“Whatever, we make mediocre songs,” Weber says with a grin. “Get over it.”Fox walks to the mike and throws the headphones on to begin recording.“Indiana’s in the house tonight / Here to party for the Little Five,” Fox sings.And with just one line, the two seniors record another IU tradition into an anthem.***Weber stood in the garage of a house nicknamed “The Mansion,” waiting for the party to get started for one of many video shoots.“We wanted to get a big vat from Sam’s Club, but they stopped selling them today,” Weber said. A kiddy pool of chocolate pudding sits on the concrete floor behind him.“We went to Wal-Mart, and in the end, left them with one cup of chocolate pudding. Brice and I ripped them open label by label. It took forever.”The small pool of chocolate pudding was eventually added to a bigger inflatable pool. More flour, water and premade pudding was added to the mix until the crowd of more than 40 people agreed it was enough. It was time for pudding wrestling.“Yo, we’re gonna start the first round right now,” Fox said.As female contestants lined up with just two pieces of clothing remaining, Fox and Weber and their fans, who were invited via Facebook, sang along to iLL 5. Two videographers from Winky Productions tried to shoot video from their Canon cameras while avoiding stray pudding and the chocolate-covered arms that flailed near their cameras’ edges.“I would definitely say it’s more edgier,” Fox said later about the song. “It’s definitely something that caters toward the students than the family.”The same can be said about the video. Dressed in their iLL 5 T-shirts, Weber and Fox found their way into the pudding with the girls.“We understand ‘This is Indiana’ reached out across the nation,” Weber said. “Whereas this is our turn to make really fun dance-pop music. The song is intended to speak out to students and incoming freshman.”As the bass rattled the garage doors and the pudding traveled further from the tub, the techno beat stopped. And the two words that Fox and Weber yelled on the recording made everyone cheer.“GET WASTED!”
(04/05/11 4:28am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When Grace Wallace told her dad three years ago that she would be attending Butler University the following fall, he only had one regret.“He was like, ‘My only regret is you won’t have the big sporting events like at IU.’ Then I come here and obviously sports are a huge deal,” the BU junior said.An hour before the doors opened at Hinkle Fieldhouse beneath the “Hoosier Sky,” a line of Butler fans had formed, reaching several blocks past the parking lot’s edge — and that was just one half of the queue. The other half extended toward fraternity row, meeting the first group in the middle, at the entrance door of the historic basketball stadium.Lauren Allen, an IU-Purdue University Indianapolis student who is looking to transfer to Butler, played a game with 8-year-old Julia Fryrear.The game: concentration.“The category was anything,” Fryrear said. “But just because Butler is in the national championship we’re only saying Butler things.”More than 1,000 miles away, senior forward Matt Howard was focusing his concentration as his Bulldog team warmed up for its second-straight appearance in the NCAA Championship game. Arms bobbed in the air, drums banged and just like one year before, “Don’t Stop Believing” filled Hinkle Fieldhouse.Unlike 2010, though, there was no No. 1 seed left in the tournament. No Coach K. No “this is just a Cinderella story” team.There was No. 3 Connecticut against the No. 8 seed from the Hoosier state.Just minutes before tipoff, Chris Port was all smiles. The sophomore goes to IU but said he has been a Butler basketball fan with his family for his entire life.“I’m from West Lafayette,” Port said. “I’ve always hated Purdue.”Port said his decision to come to IU was based on his admission into the Kelley School of Business and the price tag of an education at Butler. “I’m definitely a huge IU fan,” Port said. “In the next couple years, IU will be back to this level. You got to believe.”As 3-pointers rained down in Houston, the fans in Indianapolis remained on their feet.They chanted with the student section on television. They yelled at the referees and donned T-shirts that read “Sorry for Bracket-Bustin.”They chanted, “B-U, T-L-E, -R YOU A BULLDOG? ... HELL YEA!”Malachy O’Connor said he has been a Butler fan since the 1960s, growing up on the north side of Indianapolis.In the ’60s, O’Connor said he cheered on the Hoosiers, and he said he still does.“Butler has gotten to the pinnacle,” O’Connor said. “IU’s program needs to be turned around, and that’s what a star like Cody Zeller — with his background — will bring to Indiana.”On Monday night, O’Connor sat in the same section he had one year before, watching the 2010 National Championship game. This year, he said, the ending would be different.“I have a good feeling about Butler tonight,” O’Connor said.As the game continued, Wallace cheered from the front row with her sorority sisters. Then came missed shot after missed shot from their beloved Bulldogs.Connecticut pulled ahead as the Butler fans stomped their feet in frustration and locked their fingers behind their heads in disappointment.As the clock ran out on the Bulldogs’ season with the scoreboard showing a 12-point Connecticut victory, a lone voice came over the loudspeaker.“Do not hang your head, Butler University. Make some noise for your Butler Bulldogs.”One final chant rang through the halls of Hinkle.“B-U, T-L-E, -R You A Bulldog?”
(04/04/11 2:40am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Cutters’ Eric Young rode through the crowd, being patted on the back and congratulated for his finish in Miss-N-Out. He finally stopped when he got to his coach. Jim Kirkham smiled.“I got it,” Young said with a laugh. “Finally. Check it off the list.”The Little 500 list for Young really only had one thing left — winning Miss-N-Out.As a sophomore, Young placed second in the event. As a junior, his bike had mechanical problems.When the final lap of Saturday’s Spring Series event started, the senior was sitting on the back wheel of Phi Delta Theta rider Steve Sharp, the defending Miss-N-Out title holder.They pedaled through turn one and two before meeting a wall of wind on the backstretch. That’s when Young made his move.“I knew it was going to be windy — it would be hard to accelerate there, so that’s where I was going to accelerate,” Young said. He pulled two bike lengths ahead of Sharp before turn three. As he came close to the finish line, Young didn’t rotate his pedals.“I just coasted,” the Cutters veteran said. “I looked back and they were kinda ... back, so I figured I’d kind of shut ’er down.”All that remains on Young’s senior Little 500 checklist is winning the white jersey (awarded to the team with the most points) and a third-straight Little 500 championship, which would be the fifth-straight for the Cutters’ team. As for Saturday, he was more congratulatory of his team than celebratory of his own success. “We had Kevin (Depasse) get into the semifinals and that was his first time doing the event so that’s pretty rare,” Young said. “Then Hank (Zach Lusk) made the finals and he’s never made the finals before so that was very cool.”The Fourth Man OutSigma Chi’s Adam Fish thought he had it by a wheel. It was the final heat and he only had to survive one more lap before the neutral lap. When the pack crossed the start/finish line he knew it was close between him and Black Key Bulls veteran Jordan Bailey.“I was surprised and a little disappointed,” Fish said. “I wasn’t disappointed with the results, but that a close call was the thing that knocked me out.”Fish said he was knocked out by Sharp, Young and Bailey.“Overall, Jordan was really strong and I was with him in the two previous heats,” Fish said. “When you’re in the race, you have tunnel vision. It’s hard to really know what’s going on around you. I knew it was close, but I understand there had been close calls all day.”As for the rest of the day, Fish and his Sigma Chi team had three riders in the final 16.“We would have liked to have had all three in the finals,” Fish said. “But it’s not the race; it’s just Miss-N-Out and we’ll have another chance to compete on race day.”
(04/02/11 9:24pm)
Members of IUSF held clipboards up to their faces to shield the dirt the wind picked up and carried across the track. While the wind affected many riders, it couldn't stop the Cutters' Eric Young and Teter's Caitlin Van Kooten. Young and Van Kooten, the defending champion, won Miss 'N Out, the third Spring Series Event.
(04/01/11 3:54am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Walking in the front door of his home, it’s evident. Junior Brad Murrell lives in a jungle.A 6-foot long stuffed animal boa constrictor guards the top of the couch. Two spotlights with green bulbs cast an earthy look to the room while a laser-printed sign greets those who enter, “Welcome to the Jungle.”During Welcome Week last fall, a party at Murrell’s house got out of hand. From then on, his roommates and friends deemed the house “The Jungle.”By September, he and his three senior roommates decided they wanted to participate in a third IU tradition — besides drinking and basketball. They wanted to ride in the Little 500. They named their team #JungleExpress.Senior Dusty Moloy’s last time around Little 500 was when he watched the race freshman year, which he said was so long ago he barely remembers it.When spring semester rolled around, the four roommates went through Rookie Week together.“It was ugly,” Murrell said.“We looked hideous,” Moloy added.On Saturday, with yellow war paint smeared beneath their eyes, #JungleExpress qualified 22nd with a time of 02:35:41, beating nine fraternity teams and eight more that didn’t even qualify.“I’m excited just to race in it,” Moloy said. “I feel like we’re physically fit. We just had to put the right pieces together.”Those pieces started with a fan base. The team decided to add a hashtag in front of its name for one reason — Twitter.“We use it to talk to our fans about everything — buying tickets, telling them what color jersey we have,” Murrell said. “We are incredibly social media-friendly.”The next piece is to learn more about the race.“The race director emailed all the teams about turning in designs for a pit board. I didn’t know what that was, so I Googled it,” Murrell said. “We didn’t know much about Miss-N-Outs, ITTs or Team Pursuit so we YouTubed them to see how they all work.”No matter what social media tool #JungleExpress has to use to sharpen the team members’ skills for race day, they said they aren’t surprised that they shocked the Little 500 world by making it into the race.“Yeah, we’re an amateur team, but we’re just happy to be in the race,” Murrell said. “We have a “Why not us?” kind of mentality. We want to be the team people can root for when they don’t have a house or friends on a team.”In 15 days, #JungleExpress will don a yellow, green and red kit in the 61st running of the men’s Little 500. And for the three seniors, it’s the best way to end their time at Indiana.“It’s really just the icing on the cake,” Moloy said.
(04/01/11 3:53am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The goal is to not be the last back tire to cross the line.On April 2, Little 500 riders will compete in Miss-N-Out — the third of four Spring Series Events before the races.Wednesday’s Individual Time Trials ranked the fastest riders in the Little 500 community, but it also contributed to the heat line-ups for Miss-N-Out. The top 15 riders are placed on the inside row in the front for each heat, giving them the shortest distance around the track.The rest of the field is dispersed throughout the heats with the fastest riders placed closer to the inside of the track. The last bike to cross the start/finish line after each lap misses out until the fourth-to-last rider is eliminated.The top three riders move on to the next heat.Last year, Teter’s Caitlin Van Kooten and Phi Delta Theta’s Steve Sharp won Miss-N-Out.Van Kooten placed first in Wednesday’s Individual Time Trials and swept the Spring Series Events last year. Sharp placed sixth in the 2011 ITTs.
(03/31/11 4:28am)
Individual Time Trials is the first event of the Spring Series after
Qualifications. It’s one of the events Teter’s Caitlin Van Kooten won
last year. This year wasn’t any different, with Van Kooten finishing at
the top with a time of 2:39.41. Like Van Kooten, Cutters’ Eric Young
repeated his work from last year, also defending his title finish first
with a time of 2:22.
(03/31/11 1:22am)
In 2009, Teter's Caitlin Van Kooten stole the first place with a time of 2:40.03. Van Kooten rode away with the top spot this year with a time of 2:39.41. The pole winners, Delta Gamma had two riders place within the top ten (Kent and Doogs). Teter, second on the pole, also had two riders in the top ten (Van Kooten and Caughlin). Alpha Gamma Delta, who placed second in the 2009 race and qualified in sixth, had one rider in the top 10.
(03/31/11 1:17am)
The Cutters' Eric Young walked away with the Individual Time Trials for the third straight year. Young improved his time by 00.04 of a second. Phi Gamma Delta might have qualified 32nd, but senior David Ellis placed second in ITTs. Sigma Chi and the Cutters were the only teams to have two riders place in the top ten. Cutters' rookie Kevin Depasse finished fourth with the same time that former Cutters' rider Clayton Feldman had last year. Who will dominate on race day?
(03/28/11 3:27am)
This is the true post of Little 500 riders picked to have their lives surrounding America's Greatest College Weekend posted to the web. To find out what happens when the IDS stops just reporting and starts getting real...check here for The Real Ride -- Little 500 style.
(03/28/11 2:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For seven hours of Saturday’s Little 500 Qualifications, the Cutters stood alone at the top of the pole — uncontested.Then Sigma Nu showed up.Last season, the Cutters took the pole and won Little 500 by .01 of a second. Their four-straight Little 500 victories almost crowned them the automatic pole leader this year.But the team that finished eighth in last year’s race was done taking a back seat. With a time of 2:25.91, SNU members topped the Cutters’ 2:26.46 to chants from their brothers.“I know that we were kind of off the radar as far as the cycling community in Bloomington goes, but we’re definitely a strong team,” senior and SNU captain Joel Newman said.A tweet from Eric Young was the first response from the Cutters. “... crazy! SNU better be ready to get passed before turn 1,” Young tweeted.“We’re going to be the trash talk around the playground,” Newman said. “We just want to have a good race.”During the Cutters’ 8:20 a.m. qualifications attempt, the track was slow and loose. A rider from a competing team had already slid out on a turn.Sophomore SNU rider Brice Brookshire said the team had practiced sitting on the bike around loose turns to help with tough track conditions.By the time SNU qualified at 3:25 p.m., the track was faster and the cinders were more compact.SNU’s highest qualification in the last 10 years was in 2004 when it took second. It poled 21st in 2010, but this year it’ll start race day leading the pack.“We’re just as fast as anybody,” Brookshire said. “We all expected to go in there and win.”