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(03/08/11 3:37am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Kenny Eagle is already finding a way to put his knowledge from his Intermediate Financial and Accounting class into action. And he’s only a sophomore.The Kelley School of Business direct-admit is training for his second Little 500 for his business fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi, while also training for his first Chicago Marathon. But he’s using finance to combine the two.DSP is looking to qualify for its 13th straight race. Like most independent teams, the finances of a cycling team are difficult to overcome.Eagle said the team gets a total of $450 from the chapter. From that, $200 goes to a bike deposit and $200 goes to the race entry. That leaves the team with $50 for upgrades and bike fixes.Kits alone cost $150.Although each team must have a sponsor, DSP can’t solely rely on its sponsor for the rest of its needs.That’s where Eagle’s double major in finance and accounting comes in, along with his raising money for his Chicago Marathon team, Lance Armstrong’s “LiveStrong.”Eagle set up a fundraising plan with different levels of sponsorship, offering people a tax-deductible incentive.“If people want to be sponsors for our Little 500 team, 15 percent of that sponsorship will go to LiveStrong,” Eagle said. “The cost gets cut on our Little Five team, but it’s beneficial for our sponsors. We have to look at it as, would we be getting those sponsorships if not?”Eagle said he created this plan because he wants his team to be financially stable, since they are a business fraternity. After all, it is the only Little 500 business fraternity team.“The fact that we have a Little 500 team, I think, really helps members decide to join our business fraternity,” Eagle said.The cycling team helped Eagle, who pledged in fall 2009, make his decision to join a business fraternity rather than a social fraternity.Each year the fraternity does an internal audit of its almost 100 members to see if there is any new interest of riding, Eagle said. They consistently find DSP riders to continue the tradition of being the only Little 500 team that is a professional fraternity to race during the “greatest college weekend” for at least the last decade.“We’re not just professional speakers,” Eagle said. “We’re a bit more social, with a more wholesome feel.”
(03/08/11 3:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ron White didn’t know his first joke would be funny. It was at a family get-together. He was told a knock-knock joke by somebody there, and he repeated it to his parents.He didn’t understand it.All he knew was it made everyone laugh.And at the age of 4, Ron White’s career as a comedian began.“It was just a simple knock-knock joke,” White said. “But it killed.”On Thursday, White’s jokes will advance beyond knock-knocks for his show “Moral Compass” at 8 p.m. at the IU Auditorium.White began stand-up in the late 1980s after he came back from the Navy."I thought I was successful even when I wasn’t successful,” he said. “I felt successful. My goal was to headline comedy clubs ’til I died.”His comedy career took off in 2000 when he performed with Bill Engvall, Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy in the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. White and the Blue Collar crew grossed more than $15 million. By 2010, he had an appearance in Sex and the City 2, a Grammy nomination for “You Can’t Fix Stupid” and a Gold record. However, none of those are his biggest accomplishment.“Oh, it’s probably landing my wife,” White said.He met his singer-songwriter wife, Margo Rey, 23 years ago. He had just started in stand-up and the headliner, Alex Reymundo, asked if White wanted to see Reymundo’s sister perform in her all-girl band.“No, I really don’t,” White had said.“So, we went anyways and we walked in and she was really hot,” he said. “She’s on her knees in a little miniskirt and she’s just beltin’ out this rock song ... And I thought, ‘Well that’s the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.’”The couple recently got married.“And that’s the way I operate when I see somethin’ I like,” White said. “Twenty years later, I ask her brother for her phone number to make a move. Slick. You don’t even see me comin’.”White’s last stop in Bloomington was in 2008. But the comedian, known for his signature cigar and glass of Scotch, has yet to hit up Kirkwood.“I really am looking forward to coming in,” he said with a laugh. “And to go drinking down on your booze street.”
(03/07/11 6:04pm)
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.
(03/03/11 8:55pm)
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.
(03/02/11 9:10pm)
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.
(03/02/11 4:51am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For the last two months, through snow and ice and arctic winds, IU’s new co-defensive coordinator lived and slept inside an RV parked just beyond the south end zone of Memorial Stadium.Every morning before dawn, Mike Ekeler emerged from his Holiday Rambler Navigator and clicked the remote to lock his temporary motorhome.Determined to arrive in the weight room before his players, Ekeler would wake early and walk 100 yards along the FieldTurf to work.He arrived in Bloomington on Jan. 4. Since then, he has been hustling from 5 a.m. to midnight, launching into a mission many would call impossible: Turning a team that has spent the last three years in the basement of the Big Ten into a powerhouse.
(02/24/11 3:56am)
The line of students began at the southeast door of Assembly Hall and wrapped to Cook Hall.
(02/24/11 3:55am)
Keystone and Four Loco cans rest at the feet of students who wait outside of Assembly Hall for the doors to open for Indiana's game against Purdue.
(02/24/11 3:55am)
Signs and beer cans scatter the sidewalk of the south east entrance to Assembly Hall. Some students had been waiting since 10 a.m. so they could get the best general admission seats.
(02/24/11 3:54am)
Senior Chris Potty and junior AJ Maingot chant at a fraternity pledge as he walks away from Assembly Hall carrying a chair but disobeys the crowd's chants of "Throw the chair."
(02/24/11 3:44am)
Sophomores Blake Music, Riley Bresnahan and Arianna Guiterrez, along with junior Sydney Weaver show their frustration after the Hoosiers' miss a basket against Purdue.
(02/24/11 3:44am)
Juniors Vance Johnston and Hank Henke and sophomore Tim Kanter move their arms to Zombie Nation.
(02/24/11 3:43am)
Freshmen Kris Andorfer (far right) and Bryce Hill cheer as Indiana's starting lineup is announced.
(02/24/11 3:43am)
Freshman Anna Begley waves her "Reconstruction Zone" sign. Begley is in a matching construction costume with her roommate, freshman Taylor Exline.
(02/24/11 3:42am)
"Engineer this...5 National Championships," a sign held up by an IU student, is waved below the five title banners.
(02/24/11 3:42am)
One of the many signs that graced the student section brags about the five banner difference Indiana has over Purdue.
(02/24/11 3:35am)
The waiting crowd cheers at the site of IU Athletics director Fred Glass and begins to chant "Fred Glass." Glass walked the entire line of students greeting them. "I love this," Glass said about the line. "This is how it should be."
(02/24/11 3:35am)
Freshmen Maddy Braun, Caitie Moser and Cole Julick pass the time by playing Monopoly: The Indiana University Edition while waiting to get inside Assembly Hall for their general admission seats.
(02/24/11 3:34am)
Freshman forward Will Sheehey applauds the students who wait in the cold weather for their general admission seats before Indiana's game against Purdue.
(02/22/11 4:54am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Hundreds of IU students spend their college careers pedaling a bicycle — opting for a spandex outfit and part of a semester with less alcohol in their systems than their peers.Zach Osterman was one of those students. The 2009 IU graduate raced for Sammy Cycling for four years. When college ended, Osterman decided the Little 500 wasn’t going to end as well, so he became a coach for Sammy Cycling.Osterman is not the only coach to make the switch from being on the bike to training those on the bike. Black Key Bulls’ Ren-Jay Shei, although a senior, made the switch to coach after he became a Category 2 rider, making him ineligible to race as an amateur. On the women’s side, Delta Gamma’s Lauren Half graduated from rider to coach. Former Cutters rider Jason Fowler has coached his team to four straight Little 500 championships.Although Osterman doesn’t have any championships titles to his name, he does have the experience.“I don’t have massive tactical whatever, but I’m just someone who understands what it’s like to ride,” Osterman said. “No matter how much you train, there comes a point when the race gets to you, and I always preferred having someone in the pit who understands what I was going through.”While Osterman was a rider from 2006-09, Sammy was coached by a riding alumnus. The difference between then and Osterman’s coaching style is the knowledge and understanding of the intense work it takes to ride in the Little 500.“For us, a long ride used to be 45 miles,” Osterman said. “Now, it’s 75 miles.”Sammy Cycling is not exactly a powerhouse team. Last year the team finished 30 out of 33 teams, so Osterman doesn’t just stand in the pit spewing winning approaches to his team. He said he doesn’t want his team going in thinking they have no chance of winning but that for two hours they will give their all.Osterman also evaluated the strategy of champions.“Too many people train not to lose and to be there in the final lap,” Osterman said. “But Cutters train to win. They put massive expectations on training. It’s nothing secret. They train hard, and they want it. Now, my team is still kind of young. We just have four guys all of about equal pace and ability.“My motivation for them is to just surprise people, to always have a plan in the back of their minds — you never know when they will break a certain way. You gotta be a little lucky sometimes.”