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Local residents, students share in city's cycling glory

By Bill Meehan · Sunday, Aug. 8,2004 9:29 p.m.

The Bloomington and IU community has long been exposed to the benefits of the bike racing scene courtesy of the tradition-rich Little 500. But a sect of local citizens and students don't confine their craft to just one late April weekend. Chris Kroll, a sociology major who graduated from IU in 1988, is vice president at the Old National Bank in Bloomington, has been racing with the locally-based Team Tortuga for two years and is the cycling group's director.

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Rowing coach embraces sport's growth

Wednesday, Aug. 4,2004 9:56 p.m.

Steve Peterson, a 1996 Olympian in the lightweight double scull, is starting his second year as the IU women's rowing coach. Peterson became only the second coach in IU rowing history after leaving a similar post at George Washington University. IU will host the Big Ten women's rowing championships on Lake Lemon April 30, 2005. Indiana Daily Student: For women new to rowing, what kind of athletic background might improve their chances of success on the IU crew team?

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Colts' Harrison has lofty goals

By Anthony Breznican and Michael Marot · Wednesday, Aug. 4,2004 9:45 p.m.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Marvin Harrison defines success his own way. He doesn't need to showboat after touchdowns, compare himself with other receivers or worry about his profile. In Harrison's world, anonymity is preferred to hype, productivity to publicity. Now entering his ninth NFL season with the Indianapolis Colts, the soft-spoken five-time Pro Bowler adheres to the same, simple philosophy with which he entered the league: Stay healthy, work hard, catch passes and win games.

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IU swimmers display talent in regional meet

By Benjames Derrick and Benjamin Derrick · Wednesday, Aug. 4,2004 9:42 p.m.

The IU Division of Recreational Sports presented the USA Swimming sanctioned 2004 Speedo Champions Series Zone Sectional 3 last week, which consisted of swim teams from four states: Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. The meet was held at the Student Recreational Sports Center's Councilman/Billingsley Aquatic Center Wednesday through Sunday and consisted of 17 men's and women's events.

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Hoosier guards take on the world

By Ricardo Hernandez · Wednesday, Aug. 4,2004 9:35 p.m.

Two members of IU's men's basketball team are representing the Hoosier program this summer on a world platform. Sophomore Marshall Strickland, an Academic All-Conference honoree, was selected July 20 to represent the United States on the Big Ten Foreign Tour Team, and sophomore Bracey Wright, the junior 6-foot-3-inch guard, added another check mark to his resume when he became one of 12 student athletes from the country to be selected to the 2004 USA Young Men's National Team.

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Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Aug. 1,2004 9:12 p.m.

Men's soccer earns preseason No. 1 ranking College Soccer News, which recently ranked the IU men's soccer incoming recruiting class at No. 14, has released its annual preseason rankings for the upcoming season. The defending national champion Hoosiers sit atop the rankings, earning the publication's preseason No. 1. The team the Hoosiers defeated in last year's College Cup for the championship, St. John's, is ranked No. 2.

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Football players earn preseason honors

By Justin Lev · Sunday, Aug. 1,2004 9:09 p.m.

Numerous national sports publications have recently honored eight IU football players for their individual effort last year and for their potential success in the upcoming season as well. Six Hoosiers were named to the 2004 Street and Smith's All-American Team Honorable Mention, which included sophomore running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis, senior wide receiver Courtney Roby, senior defensive lineman Jodie Clemons, junior offensive lineman Isaac Sowells, senior offensive lineman Chris Jahnke and senior safety Herana-Daze Jones. Clemons was also honored by being named to the 2004 Street and Smith's All-Big Ten Team.

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Euro powers clash

By Kevin A Switaj and Kevin Switaj · Wednesday, July 28,2004 9:20 p.m.

CHICAGO -- There are more than 100 professional soccer clubs in England, from small sides like Leyton Orient and Boston United to behemoths like Chelsea and the defending Premier League champion Arsenal. However, no club can match the power, the mystique or the popularity of Manchester United.

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2004 class gives team new depth

By Dan Click · Wednesday, July 28,2004 9:19 p.m.

Coming off a year in which the Hoosiers finished the season 12-12, with six of those losses recorded by a narrow 4-3 margin, the IU coaching staff needed to add depth with the 2004 recruiting class. IU coach Ken Hydinger achieved that by adding highly touted recruits Michael McCarthy and Dara McLoughlin to a team that will return for the 2004 season completely intact.

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Armstrong wins 6th straight tour

By Alyson Brodsy and Mort Rosenblum · Sunday, July 25,2004 9:51 p.m.

PARIS -- All people saw, on first pass, was a yellow flash tucked within the blur of blue that led the pack down the Champs-Elysees. But that was all it took. Paris yelled its heart out. Lance Armstrong, the 32-year-old Texan who fought past cancer to get back on his bike, was the first six-time victor in the 101-year history of Tour de France, surely the world's most grueling athletic event.

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Swim team's legacy continues

By Bill Meehan · Sunday, July 25,2004 9:04 p.m.

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. was an IU swimmer in the 1960s and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in history from IU. He is now editor in chief of The American Spectator, which he founded in a Bloomington farmhouse during his school days in 1967, originally called The Alternative. Named one of Time Magazine's 50 future leaders of America in 1979, Tyrrell also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column and has authored seven books.

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New coach reloads team with several top recruits

By Dan Cohen and Daniel Cohen · Sunday, July 25,2004 8:59 p.m.

For the first time in school history, IU soccer's recruiting class was headed by someone other than Jerry Yeagley. In his first year taking over for former coach Yeagley, Mike Freitag inherited the reigning national champions and completed his first ever recruiting class, which garnered the No. 14 ranking in the nation, according to College Soccer News.

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Professor of the pigskin

By Alex Hickey · Thursday, July 22,2004 9:19 p.m.

Students and colleagues of African-American Studies professor John McCluskey might know of his Harvard education. But he's less likely to reveal to them a piece of information that might win a few bar bets and prove his role as a football pioneer. McCluskey, who played for Harvard from 1962-65, was the first black student to start at quarterback in the history of the Ivy League.

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Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 21,2004 10:06 p.m.

Strickland selected to men's basketball tour IU junior guard Marshall Strickland has been selected to represent the Big Ten in the conference's Foreign Tour. This year the team expects to play five games in France and Italy between August 10-20.

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NCAA panel endorses tighter recruiting rules

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 21,2004 10:02 p.m.

Under new rules designed to take the "celebrity" out of the recruiting race, colleges will no longer be able to fly recruits on private jets, house them in resort hotels or feed them extravagant meals.

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HPER holds national youth hoops tourney

By Justin Lev · Wednesday, July 21,2004 9:58 p.m.

Elementary, junior high and high school basketball players from around the country and Canada have descended on campus this week to participate in the American Youth Basketball Tour. "It's a great opportunity for young teams to improve their game, and it gives the individual players an incredible chance to get the playing time necessary for their own development," said Dave Kreps, one of the founders of the 10-year-old AYBT.

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Coach tapped to lead golf team

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 21,2004 9:51 p.m.

For 23 years the IU women's golf team has known only one coach. But following the conclusion of the 2003-04 season, legendary coach Sam Carmichael announced his retirement, leaving a void at the helm of the Hoosier program. On Tuesday the athletics department appointed Clint Wallman as the team's new coach.

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Student sports talk show makes noise on WIUS

By Ricardo Hernandez · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:27 p.m.

The Bloomington radio airwaves are being treated to "The Total Package" this summer. Supported by the IU student radio station, WIUS-AM 1570, "The Total Package" is a sports talk show hosted by graduate students Pete Rowley and former IDS columnist Kevin Switaj. At 8 p.m. every Tuesday, Switaj and Rowley sit down for an hour with various guests to discuss sports issues concerning IU and other institutions.

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Former football player rowing to Athens

By Bill Meehan · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:24 p.m.

Former IU offensive tackle Phil Trinter played at IU from 1988-91, but after graduation his competitive spirit never died. The four-time letterman began sailing at the age of eight and took up racing in 1992. In addition to winning the 1993 Star World Championship and the 2003 Star North American Championship, Trinter won world championships in the 50-foot and Maxi boats. He also was involved in two campaigns for the America's Cup, a worldwide yachting competition that boasts the oldest trophy in international sports and competed in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Trials. More recently Trinter has been training over the summer in Athens for the upcoming 2004 summer Olympic Games.

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