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Women's tennis splits weekend IU's No. 37-ranked women's tennis team split the weekend with Friday's 6-1 win against No. 75 Minnesota and Sunday's 7-0 loss to No. 49 Iowa. The weekend started with IU winning all of the doubles matches against the Golden Gophers, garnering the all-important doubles point.


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Team loses close battle in Big Ten preparation

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While most of the campus was joining together for Little 500 revelry, Hoosier rowers entered battle to the slow beat of a Viking march, undaunted and without faltering. IU's second Varsity 8 overpowered No. 19 Minnesota 7:30.5-7:33.9 for the first Big Ten win in their category. The Varsity 8 gave No. 4 Ohio State, the regatta host, a respectable fight. IU assistant coach Carmen Mirochna said the second Varsity 8 crew looked strong the entire course.


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IU defeats Dayton 2-1 in final minute

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It took 78 minutes for the Hoosier offense to get started, but once it did, the offense lead the two-time defending national champions men's soccer team to a 2-1 victory over the University of Dayton. A free kick by the Hoosiers with 12 minutes left in the game found sophomore Brian Plotkin on a breakaway. Plotkin's shot found the top corner of the goal and gave the Hoosiers a 1-0 lead.


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A lot of hype, no thrills

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So who's excited about IU football? Yeah, I didn't think so. While most of the students on campus were either getting drunk, already drunk or passed out from being drunk, Friday afforded die-hard Hoosier football fans with a glimpse of what the 2005 season and new coach Terry Hoeppner may have in store.

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Dormitories earn race-day glory

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For the first time ever, the men's and women's Little 500 trophies will be in display cases on Tenth Street. Only Campbell Street separates Dodds House, which is in Wright Quad, and Teter. But the two teams, along with many of the other dorms, train together in each team's effort to win the Little 500. That effort between Dodds House and Briscoe was evident as both teams were together on the lead lap at the end of Saturday's race.


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3 Bella Veloce riders earn 4th place

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There were almost too many stories from Friday's Little 500 about Bella Veloce -- a team that had little money and no coaching. But a good start might actually be at the finish, where only three riders captured fourth place. Junior Nicole Williamson was sidelined with a broken collarbone, leaving three riders to do the work of four. Each individual needed to write her own heroic tale to make the fourth place story possible.



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It's Little 500 time

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As students slowed down their schoolwork and began to prepare for the "World's Greatest College Weekend," Little 500 riders began to slow down too. But their adjustment was different, as they prepare for Saturday's 55th running of the men's Little 500 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The men cut back their training to be at full strength for the race and prepared to get in the mindset to be in front on the 199th lap.


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The field is determined. The riders are ready. The track is set.

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Like a fine wine, the quality of the women's Little 500 race improves each year, and this year, the race's value skyrocketed. Today's Little 500, scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. at Bill Armstrong Stadium, will bring 32 teams together all with the same dream of celebrating after lap 100. But unlike years past, there are more than just a couple of teams threatening to win it all.


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Kappa Kappa Gamma rides to remember Crouse

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Some things are bigger than sport. For an entire year, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority's primary focus rested on winning its second consecutive Little 500. That was until a gray Honda station wagon collided with a red Jeep Cherokee right outside the Kappa house late Monday evening. Kappa sorority member and former Little 500 teammate Ashley Crouse was in the backseat of the Jeep. She was pronounced dead early Tuesday morning.


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Big Ten battle on Banks Field crucial for Hoosier revival

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In the fifth inning of the first game against Minnesota last week, junior second baseman Jay Brant received a ground ball hop straight to his jaw. Brant left the game and consequently lost his 19-game hitting streak, the longest such streak by a Hoosier this season.


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Chicago's Curry to miss rest of season

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DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Eddy Curry and the Chicago Bulls are optimistic he'll play again, but the center will miss the rest of this season and the playoffs while more tests are done to determine the cause of an irregular heartbeat.


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Boston takes game while NY takes hits

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BOSTON -- The New York Yankees got into another scuffle with fans on a testy night at Fenway Park. This time, Gary Sheffield was in the middle of it. Sheffield was fielding Jason Varitek's two-run triple along the right-field fence in the eighth inning of Boston's 8-5 victory Thursday night when a fan swung a short uppercut in his direction, appearing to graze the side of the slugger's face with his right arm.


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IU to get back into swing in West Lafayette

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After back-to-back third-place finishes, the men's golf team will head to West Lafayette looking for its second win of the year and first win of the spring season. The team will be well-rested heading into the tournament after having the last two weeks off.


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IU ready for Hawkeyes, Golden Gophers

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After Sunday's close loss to Notre Dame, the Hoosiers are hungry -- and Hawkeyes and Golden Gophers are on the menu. IU can solidify a second-place conference ranking with this weekend's pair of road matches against No. 75 Minnesota and No. 49 Iowa.



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Hoosiers head to Ohio State after best finish of spring

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Coming off of its best performance of the spring season, the IU women's golf team will compete in the Lady Buckeye Invitational this weekend on the Ohio State University Scarlet Golf Course in Columbus, Ohio. This will be the Hoosiers' final tune-up before the Big Ten Championships.




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The greatest college weekend?

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The self-proclaimed "World's Greatest College Weekend" is upon us. That sounds awfully presumptuous, and I myself have doubts about Little 500. To believe that a late April weekend in Indiana has been termed the greatest of anything comes as a surprise to this Florida transplant. I would expect maybe the greatest ratio of tooth decay, but the "World's Greatest College Weekend?" Wow, that's a tough pill to swallow.