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Team looking past last season

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As the Hoosiers prepared for the upcoming season, one thing was apparent -- last year's record of 10-7-2 (4-4-2) would not be acceptable this season.




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Golfers thrive in off-season

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Sporting goods stores are filled with gimmicks offering to take strokes off of one's golf game. But, the best way to improve a golf game is simply to play as much as possible, according to IU men's golf coach Mike Mayer.


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Returning runners lead Hoosiers

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After a successful 2002 campaign, Coach Judy Wilson's 2003 IU women's cross-country team looks to continue the trend into this season.


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Miles add up for IU runners

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When first asked what his team did this summer to prepare for the upcoming Men's cross country season, Hoosier head coach Robert Chapman said, "We ran a lot."


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The Final Season

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Winning and doing it the right way has been the mantra for legendary IU coach Jerry Yeagley in his three plus decades at IU.


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No offseason for DiNardo

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It was Wednesday's practice of the UConn game week. Coaches yelled, whistles blew and over 100 players moved from one organized drill to the next. Coach Gerry DiNardo walked the fields observing every part of his second IU team.



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Pacers would deal an unhappy O'Neal

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Worse than a whining athlete is a young whining athlete making $126 million. To the rest of the paycheck-to-paycheck world, it's ludicrous. To a Hall of Famer who knows what it takes to win, it's intolerable. Jermaine O'Neal ticked off Larry Bird by saying he wouldn't have signed the seven-year deal with the Indiana Pacers for that surreal sum last month if he knew the new boss was going to fire coach Isiah Thomas. The 6-foot-11 forward-center stopped short of demanding a trade, but made it clear it was on his mind.


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Irsay says he'll keep Colts in Indianapolis

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Jim Irsay said Thursday he wanted to keep the Colts in Indianapolis even if it takes years, not months, to work out a deal with the city. The Colts owner talked with reporters for the first time in more than 10 months Thursday, answering questions after he watched the team practice. Irsay acknowledged negotiations with city officials had slowed but suggested that was more the result of timing than an impasse. The Colts are preparing for Sunday's season-opener at Cleveland and a city's mayoral election will be held in November.


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Lilly rival to get spotlight in RCA Dome

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INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Colts' first multiyear sponsorship deal with a drug company does not involve the one most linked to the team's hometown. The National Football League team said Wednesday it signed on GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. to a corporate sponsorship to promote their jointly marketed male impotence pill, Levitra. Effective this season, the deal allows Bayer and Glaxo to promote Levitra in the RCA Dome through signs and programs and in broadcast and online media. The RCA Dome should be outfitted with Levitra signs by the Colts' home opener Sept. 14, said Michael Fleming, director of product communication for GlaxoSmithKline in Philadelphia. The sponsorship by the German and British pharmaceutical firms is a bold publicity move, coming in the hometown of rival Eli Lilly and Co. Lilly and partner Icos Corp. aim to put their own male impotence pill, Cialis (pronounced see-ALL-iss), on the U.S. market by the end of this year.


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Limbaugh makes ESPN debut

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Commentator Rush Limbaugh made his ESPN debut at a fitting location -- Washington, D.C. Actually, it was Landover, Md., in the parking lot of FedEx Field but it was still familiar territory for the right-wing radio host best known as the host of the politically focused "Rush Limbaugh Show," which is syndicated in more than 650 markets worldwide. "This is sort of like the fulfillment of a dream for me," Limbaugh said Thursday night after being introduced on ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown." Host Chris Berman even commented on the appropriateness of Limbaugh's first name.


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Home tourney offers chance to iron out kinks

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IU's women's volleyball team will compete in the second annual T.I.S/Taylor Invitational this weekend. Last year, Dayton University took home the inaugural championship, as the Hoosiers finished 2-1 for the tournament. IU's play in the tournament begins Friday night at 7:00 p.m. against IUPUI, then the Hoosiers continue their tournament play Saturday at noon versus Southeast Missouri State, before concluding the two-day event against Wisconsin-Green Bay at 7:30 p.m. All matches will be played at the University Gym.


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Team travels to St. Louis for tourney

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The Hoosiers travel to St. Louis this weekend to participate in the Toys For Tots/Military Academies Women's Soccer Classic. Friday they face off against St. Louis University at 7:30 p.m. and then Sunday, they go against Army at 11 a.m. The Hoosiers enter the tournament hungry and in search of their first win of the season. Senior goalkeeper Shaunna Daugherty said the team is anxious to play in the tournament. "Going into St. Louis is exciting because a lot of girls on our team know girls from the other teams," Daugherty said. "We want to come in and establish ourselves as the powerhouse team." For the Hoosiers, there will be plenty of familiar faces as the team boasts five players from St. Louis. The five is comprised of seniors Shelly Gruszka, Erin Hesselbach and Emily Hotz, sophomore Ryan Hanley, and freshman Lauren Lamping.


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Hoosiers face off against in-state rival

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The IU women's field hockey team heads up to Muncie today to face off against in-state rival Ball State. The Hoosiers enter today's game with a 2-0 record after beating two Mid-American Conference teams, Central Michigan and Miami Ohio, last weekend to open up the season. Against Miami, the Hoosiers set several team scoring records including most goals scored in one game (7), two players set the record for most assists by one player in a game with two (senior Jamie O'Pray and sophomore Nikki Orciuch), and junior Kayla Bashore tied the team record for most goals in a game by an individual with two.


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Off with a bang

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WASHINGTON -- Rain and mud were no match for a crowd of thousands who flocked to the National Mall Thursday for a free concert featuring Britney Spears, Aerosmith and Aretha Franklin. The concert was staged by the NFL to create excitement about the start of football season -- a game between the Washington Redskins and New York Jets. Six blocks of the Mall were filled with a crowd estimated at 130,000, according to NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said. The crowd was orderly and only two people were arrested, U.S. Park Police said.


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No. 5 Hoosiers head to Connecticut for first road trip

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Fresh off their first adidas/IU Credit Union Classic tournament victory in four years, the No. 5 Hoosiers head to Storrs, Conn., for their first road test of the season as IU battles two Big East opponents in Georgetown today and No. 22 Connecticut Saturday as part of the UConn Classic. The Hoosiers, (1-0-1) jumped up two spots from No. 7 in the latest NSCAA poll after beating California and finishing in a draw with Alabama-Birmingham last weekend in Bloomington, but face two more dangerous opponents this weekend.


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Here's hoping for a miracle

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I was hoping by some scheduling quirk we would find out that the Hoosiers would actually be traveling to play Washington University in St. Louis. Apparently, they still have to go to Seattle. This is a bad thing. Granted, Washington didn't look like anything special against Ohio State last week. But let's remember that the Bucks won the national championship. On the other hand, UConn, which dominated IU, is pretty good at women's basketball but doesn't quite have the same track record in football. Washington is also pretty good at home. The team has lost five non-conference home games in the past 20 years, and that includes opponents like Miami. Their quarterback, Cody Pickett, passed for 4,461 yards and 28 touchdowns last year.