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Finding his rhythm

By Zack Teibloom · Monday, Nov. 27,2006 12:22 a.m.

Phillip Wagner compares his life story to Forrest Gump. The similarities are striking: Both had braces on their legs early in their childhood, both served a tour of duty in Vietnam and both were unlucky in love.

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TAKEDOWN

By Alyson Brodsy and K. A. MacDonald · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:42 p.m.

TAKEDOWN -- IU freshman Maurice Gunn (left) battles Eric Flinchum, a top-ranked wrestler of Cumberland College in the NAIA during Saturday's Hoosier Duals at Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers finished the day 5-0 after defeating Cumberland, Oregon, Bucknell, Ohio and Appalachian State. IU will head to Primm, Nev. on Dec. 1 to compete in the Las Vegas Invitational.

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Dear diary

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Abrams · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:38 p.m.

Indianapolis -- This is a running diary of my first media experience in the professional world of sports. It is a journal of my thoughts throughout the Indiana Pacers vs. Cleveland Cavaliers game Friday.

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IU finishes out 2006 with 19 straight losses

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:37 p.m.

The IU women's volleyball team will end its losing streak this season at 19 games. It won't end because of a Hoosier victory though. It will end because there are no more games to play. The Hoosiers lost their last two games at home this weekend after being swept by No. 11 Wisconsin on Friday and No. 10 Minnesota on Saturday. The losses ended the Hoosiers' season and put the team in last place in the Big Ten at 1-19 with an overall record of 10-22. The wins helped boost both Wisconsin and Minnesota in their pushes for an NCAA Tournament bid.

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Slow-starting Pacers fall to Raptors 92-83 Sunday

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:35 p.m.

TORONTO -- Andrea Bargnani is starting to show why the Toronto Raptors took a chance on the soft-shooting Italian forward with the top pick in the draft. Chris Bosh had 17 points and 11 rebounds and four other Raptors reached double figures in scoring, and Toronto held on for a 92-83 victory against the slow-starting Indiana Pacers on Sunday. Bargnani had 14 points for the Raptors, who never trailed. Toronto outscored Indiana 32-17 in the first quarter and began the second quarter on a 14-2 run, including eight points from Bargnani.

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Senior duo end year at Terre Haute meet

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:34 p.m.

The IU women's cross country team officially finished its season at the NCAA Championships on Nov. 20. With only seniors Jessica Gall and Lindsay Hattendorf competing, the race marked the end of the two runners' Hoosier careers. However, the end result of the race wasn't as promising as the team had hoped as the two finished in 84th and 104th, respectively, at the 6K race in Terre Haute.

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Hoosiers lose for 1st time of season at Thanksgiving tournament

By Lee Hurwitz · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:30 p.m.

After opening the season with its best start in six years, the IU women's basketball team suffered its first loss to the Miami Hurricanes this weekend. IU began the Miami Thanksgiving Tournament with a convincing 73-52 win against Wright State University. Four Hoosiers scored in double digits, including junior Nikki Smith, who led the team with 19 points. Despite shooting 48 percent from the field and 66 percent from beyond the arc, IU was unable to match the effort against the Hurricanes in the championship.

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Win or lose Tuesday, there's something to gain

By Alyson Brodsy and Ryan Corazza · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:29 p.m.

Seventy and three. That is Duke University's home record in Cameron Indoor Stadium since 2002. Given this daunting statistic, a win at Duke Tuesday night is possible for IU but (obviously) not very probable. If anything -- much like last year's tilt in Assembly Hall against the Blue Devils -- Tuesday night's game against Duke will serve as a measuring stick for where IU is at this early-season juncture.

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Stop latte politics

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:09 p.m.

Ihe other day I was strolling down Kirkwood Avenue feeling pretty chipper when I gradually realized that it has little in the way of redeeming virtues. It was not the mediocre cafes and substandard bars but the "Peoples Park" mentality that aroused my aggravation. Take the room-temperature opinion in your choice coffeehouse, and you'll notice that the one factor which everyone uniformly lacks is the remotest sense of reality. Their idea, condensed only slightly, is that if a tree falls and no one is there to hear it, it did not make a noise. Thus, if we extract ourselves from the messy circumstances of the world, the problems will either be solved thereby or will simply go away.

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Show me the sexism

By Alyson Brodsy and Michelle Manchir · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:08 p.m.

I was 11. The boys in my sixth- grade class held a copy of Britney Spears' first CD. They ogled her toned belly, her sweet, pretty face, her hair, her clothes, her body. I stood in the classroom alongside my fellow hormone-driven, confused, prepubescent girlfriends, watching the boys. At the time, we probably giggled at the boys' expressed sexual interest, not knowing any better.

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To protect and serve

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:07 p.m.

I finally got around to watching "The Da Vinci Code" and, though I'll refrain from commenting on the movie itself for now, there was a line that has stuck in my head since: "We are what we protect." This statement, though fairly inconsequential to the plot, holds a profound message when taken in the context of government-citizen relations and human motivation.

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Smoke and mirrors

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:06 p.m.

If Facebook is any indication of the general sentiments of students at IU, it seems that a sizable minority of us think Ugg boots are annoying, if not outright offensive. Logically, the next step is to form a group against Uggs on IU's campus, followed by submitting a proposal to President Adam Herbert outlining how to effect a ban of such hideous footwear.

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Lights

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:04 p.m.

Lights -- Fireworks light up in the sky Friday during the 44th annual Circle of Lights at Monument Circle in Indianapolis.

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