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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.

Traditional country roots

By Brandon S Morley · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:24 p.m.

Just to give you an idea just how much time Willie Nelson spends playing: he's had the same guitar his whole career and, because he never used a pick guard, he flat out wore a hole through it.

'Pompeii' -- an overall explosive read

By Britany Ausmus and Brittany Ausmus · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:23 p.m.

It's a situation ripe for a Hollywood movie interpretation: rich and powerful people are living in the shadow of an impending disaster, unaware of the danger that is lurking near their homes. British novelist Robert Harris has done the next best thing. He's written a novel that dramatizes the disaster that befell Pompeii in A.D. 79.

Faltering Portugese government quits

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:18 p.m.

LISBON, Portugal -- Portugal, already reeling from an alarming economic decline, plunged deeper into crisis Saturday when the conservative government quit a day after the president dissolved Parliament and called an early general election. The chaos in government will translate into months of political paralysis that Portugal, one of the European Union's poorest nations, can ill afford.

Homeland security pick forced to withdraw

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:18 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The White House renewed its search for a homeland security chief Saturday as the candidate President George W. Bush thought ideal apologized for an immigration problem involving a family housekeeper that forced him to withdraw.

IU WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 7:15 p.m.

It took regulation, 2 overtimes and a shootout, but IU won its second straight national championship Sunday. IU won the shootout 3-2 after playing to a 1-1 tie. With under 10 minutes left in regulation, UC-Santa Barbara's Drew McAthy scored a goal to tie IU 1-1 in the national championship game. Sophomore forward Jacob Peterson scored as IU opened a 1-0 lead in the first half. Check back for more updates.

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