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Fans go to great lengths to cheer on Hoosiers

By Brian Janosch · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 1:30 a.m.

CARSON, Calif. -- Two-thousand miles for two games might not seem like an even trade off, but try telling that to Charlie Teeple, or any of the more than 200 Hoosier faithful fans in attendance for the weekend's matches.

Double-overtime thriller sees IU through to title game

By Brian Janosch · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 1:30 a.m.

CARSON, Calif. -- Pure emptiness. That's what shot through Maryland coach Sasho Cirovski when the clock struck 48 seconds in the second overtime of Friday's semifinal match. Pure excitement.

Ambersley's return makes title that much better

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 1:28 a.m.

CARSON, Calif. -- When IU coach Mike Freitag stood among his men in the locker room after winning his first national championship as head coach and the program's seventh, he singled out one player -- Mike Ambersley.

Hoosiers rebound with sweep of East Coast foes

By Dan Click · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 12:32 a.m.

After a tough loss Monday night to Indiana State University 66-59, the Hoosiers hit the road this weekend to take on a pair of foes from the American East Conference -- the University of Maine and Boston University. IU (5-3) was victorious in both games 62-60 against Boston and 67-59 against Maine.

4 teams clinch division crowns; San Diego keeps winning ways

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 12:13 a.m.

HOUSTON -- Peyton Manning broke one of Dan Marino's touchdown records, just not the one everybody has been talking about, as Indianapolis clinched its second straight AFC South title with a 23-14 win over the Texans Sunday.

Freshmen get rare minutes in loss to heated rivals UK

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 12:11 a.m.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- IU coach Mike Davis had to. He had no choice but to play freshman and Fort Wayne native James Hardy. "James Hardy -- I had to play him," Davis said. "You just kind of wait for the game where you can put him in, but I can't wait for Oral Roberts or Furman. I mean at some point he has to experience (game situations).

Leinart becomes USC's sixth Heisman winner

By Alyson Brodsy and Ralph D. Russo · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 12:10 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Matt Leinart replaced a Heisman Trophy winner and became one himself. The Southern California quarterback won college football's most prestigious individual award Saturday night, beating out Oklahoma teammates Adrian Peterson and Jason White, last year's winner.

on the SIDELINES

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 12:04 a.m.

Sources: Weis to become next Notre Dame coach SOUTH BEND -- New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis has told friends he has accepted the Notre Dame coaching job, returning to the school he graduated from in 1978 but never played.

Disney couldn't write it any better

By Matt Glenesk · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 12:03 a.m.

Hollywood sees scripts like this thousands of times a year. Aspiring screenwriters turned waiters/caterers/valets slip their transcripts to producers at every opportunity. The same cliché happy ending time and time again. "Seems too perfect, won't be believable," the film exec would say.

Wildcats outscore Hoosiers 38-10 in paint

By John Rodgers · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 12:02 a.m.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kentucky's version of the 'Empire State Building' and his fellow skycrapers towered over the Hoosier big men in the Wildcats' 73-58 victory Saturday in Freedom Hall.

'CAT'ASTROPHIC

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 12 a.m.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For the first 5 minutes and 27 seconds of Saturday's game against Kentucky, IU looked like it had taken the lessons learned from North Carolina, UConn and Notre Dame and was using them to its advantage.

Ukraine prosecutors reopen investigation

By Alyson Brodsy and David Rising · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:53 p.m.

VIENNA, Austria -- Ukrainian prosecutors reopened their investigation into allegations Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned after doctors who treated the opposition leader confirmed he had been slipped the toxic chemical dioxin, as Yushchenko returned home Sunday to campaign for this month's presidential run-off vote.

Tech center assists disabled students

By Aliya Levinson · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:48 p.m.

Located on the first floor of the library and bordered by glass windows, the majority of students look straight past it. The Adaptive Technology Center often goes unnoticed by many students. But if they took time to look around, however, they might realize IU has many services that give the University its great reputation.

Some students stay on campus for 'victory lap'

By Kristin Fruehauf · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:47 p.m.

Books, booze and bars are staples in most college students' lives. Students rarely appreciate their freedom until they face graduating and entering the "real world."

Local bars, patrons brace for smoking ban

By Nellie Summerfield · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:41 p.m.

First in restaurants, then on campus and now even in bars ... lighting up a cigarette will be prohibited in all public buildings beginning Jan. 1, 2005.

Competing restaurants don't actually compete after all

By Cameron Thibos · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:39 p.m.

The Esan Thai Restaurant opened to little fanfare last October across the street from the Monroe County Public Library. Two other Thai restaurants, Siam House and Maung Tong Thai, are within the same downtown area. Nonetheless, Esan Thai survived the-make-or break first year, and now business is thriving.

The final judgement

By Felipe Maya · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:34 p.m.

It's the beginning of the end folks. And at this point all I have to say is: Screw finals, and all tests for that matter.

Britney Spears for president

By Joanna Borns · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:33 p.m.

What makes a good president? The exact qualifications might be impossible to pinpoint, but I know of someone who would make the perfect commander in chief.

Vilifying black athletes

By Jonathan Blanks · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:32 p.m.

There has been no indication whatsoever that race played any part of the brawl at the Pacers/Pistons game in Auburn Hills, Mich., last month. Yet, race has permeated the media coverage and commentary -- albeit covertly -- in the weeks since the melee.

Nudity not for necking

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:32 p.m.

While many IU students plan to resume business as usual when they return to campus after the holiday break, students at Bennington College in Vermont are preparing to uphold their right to college life in the nude. Reflecting the feel good attitude and free spirit conditioning of post-modern American ideology, some Bennington students have exploited an informal campus policy since the 1960s which allows them to conduct academic business and to participate in leisure activities while naked -- genitals blowing to-and-fro in the breeze in plain view for all to see.