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IU women's golf team excited for Vegas trip

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The Hoosiers won’t have a lot of time to visit casinos or gamble this week, but IU coach Clint Wallman is betting his team is ready to play well. “I think they are in a good frame of mind right now to go out and play,” he said. The IU women’s golf team concludes its fall season this week in the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown in Las Vegas. The Boulder Creek golf course, which will host the tournament, is a favorite of senior Amber Lindgren.



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IU men's swimming and diving tops ranked Northwestern for 2nd straight win

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The IU men’s swimming and diving team won its second straight dual meet to open its season on Friday, defeating Northwestern 158-129 at the Councilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center. “I thought our guys stepped up and swam hard again,” IU swimming coach Ray Looze said. “I thought the men reacted well. Hopefully we have some momentum ready.”


Junior forward Kristin Arnold winds up for a kick during the Hoosiers 1-0 win over Michigan Sunday afternoon at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Arnold scored the lone goal of the game in the 47th minute.

Despite wins, IU women's soccer just misses tournament

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The IU women’s soccer team’s final weekend is probably best described as bittersweet. IU came into the weekend needing two wins and some help to make the Big Ten Tournament in two weeks in Iowa City, Iowa. The Hoosiers (8-10-1, 3-6-1) did their part, winning both games over Michigan State and Michigan, each 1-0. But because Illinois defeated Ohio State on Sunday, the Hoosiers will not play in the conference tournament.

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Triumphant IU men's soccer bests Ohio State in OT

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The hero returned. Only four days after a successful penalty kick and a 1-0 Hoosier victory against Louisville, sophomore midfielder Andy Adlard saved IU again on Sunday. Adlard sent a free kick into the bottom left corner in the 92nd minute for a 3-2 road victory against unranked Ohio State.


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Hoosiers poised for upsets this season

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Call it the first honest look at IU basketball – the first time Tom Crean was forced to turn over his cards and prove what kind of poker player he’s been the last seven months. He underbet his hand.




IU freshman wide receiver Tandon Doss makes a catch during the Homecoming game Saturday against Northwestern. Doss had 107 yards receiving in the 21-19 win.

Chappell, Belcher, Doss break out for IU

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From the stands at Memorial Stadium earlier this season, sophomore quarterback Ben Chappell might not have appeared to be the leader the IU football team needed. But in the huddle, in the locker room and on the turf at the Rock on Saturday, Chappell blossomed before fans’ eyes. Forced into the starting role after Kellen Lewis suffered an ankle injury against Iowa two weeks ago, Chappell struggled in his first start at Illinois.


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Hoosiers show progress in scrimmage

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It wasn’t always clear if the football team would prevail Saturday, but there was never any doubt the basketball team would come out atop its intrasquad scrimmage. In a game quicker and more competitive than last week’s Hoosier Hysteria exhibition, the Hoosiers showed what they had learned in their first full week of practice in a 40-minute scrimmage in front of about 5,000 fans in Assembly Hall. Led by freshman guard Verdell Jones, the Cream team edged out the Crimson squad in the closing minutes, 91-86. Jones finished with a game-high 30 points, while freshman guard Nick Williams led the Crimson team with 28.



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Police: Man fled officers with 86-year-old mother

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A Bloomington man led the IU Police Department, the Bloomington Police Department and the Indiana State Police on a chase throughout the city Saturday while his 86-year-old mother was in the passenger seat, police said.


Members of the Cutters football team warm up at the beginning of practice Thursday night at Brown Elementary School in Bloomington.  The Cutters are a semi-professional football team with several former IU players competing in the Interstate Football League, a league with teams from Indiana and Ohio.

Passion for the game

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They come slowly, piece by piece, trickling off the gravel drive and onto the grass parking lot around 6:30, just as the sun touches the southern Indiana leaves, colored by fall. Easing out of their cars, they laugh, enjoy a beer, catch up on the week that was. This is a release point, when they can slow life down and let the game take over. They come from all manner of careers – accountants mix with blue-collar workers mix with IU students. Some have no jobs at all. “That’s the unusual thing about semi-pro football,” head coach Brent Slinkard says. “You’re getting a host of age groups and a host of different backgrounds and educations all coming together for one thing that we all have in common – it’s just passion for the game.” They come every Tuesday and Thursday night to the green and brown field behind Brown Elementary School, white helmets and mish-mash practice gear in tow. They come to play football. They are the Indiana Cutters, a semi-professional football team based out of Bloomington that competes across the state and sometimes into Ohio. Their cobblestone roster boasts the likes of former IU wideout Jahkeen Gilmore and Lee Becton, the only Notre Dame running back ever to tally seven straight 100-yard games and the Irish’s 12th all-time leading rusher. Anywhere between 60 and 65 men from college age on up call themselves Cutters, as they have since conditioning began in January and practices started in March.


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Service honors fallen deputy

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Deputy Sarah Jones was remembered as a hero by those who attended her funeral Friday morning at the Sherwood Oaks Christian Church.SLIDESHOW: Sarah Jones' funeral


Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin speaks to supporters during a campaign stop Saturday evening in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Palin visits Fort Wayne

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FORT WAYNE – Less than two weeks after John McCain made “Joe the Plumber” a household name in the 2008 elections, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin introduced Hoosiers on Saturday to two more average Joes.Palin singled out “Doug the Barber” and “Chris the Electrician” as two hard-working Americans from the crowd of about 10,000 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne.She used the pair to support her claim that “Barack the wealth-spreader” wasn’t representing average Americans.SLIDESHOW: Sarah Palin in Fort Wayne


Sophomore quarterback Ben Chappell runs for a touchdown against Northwestern Saturday at Memorial Stadium.  The Hoosiers defeated the Wildcats 21-19, ending a five game losing streak.

Chappell, Hoosiers upset favored Northwestern 21-19

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Defensive end Jammie Kirlew had more than just a spark in his eye – he had his swagger back. And the junior, along with his teammates, had good reason.PODCAST: Hoosier SidelinesSLIDESHOW: IU beats Northwestern





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Sarah Palin’s pipeline terms netted 1 viable bid

Gov. Sarah Palin’s signature accomplishment – a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 – emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation shows.