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Wednesday, Jan. 28
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Double the pleasure, double the fun

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It was two hours before last year's IU-Wisconsin football game, and my co-beat writer and I were sitting in Madison traffic, waiting to get to Camp Randall Stadium. As we sat at a red light, a van pulled up to the right side of the University rental car and a man rolled down his window.


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Young group works hard to improve

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Competition is what drives athletes. Such is the case for junior Glenn Johnson and sophomore Courtney Roby. The two admit to competing during practice. The competitions may be the reason that the two wide receivers are quickly becoming one of the best receiving duos in the Big Ten. "Based on how each of us performs, we try to feed off of each other's performance," Johnson said. "If he is performing at a high level, then I upgrade my performance and vice versa. It's always positive, never negative."


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Hoosiers take third at shootout

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The IU women's golf team traveled just up the road to Franklin, Ind., to take part in the fifth annual Shootout at the Legends Tuesday and returned to campus with a third place finish. The third place finish is the highest the Hoosiers have finished in the event. In the previous four years the team has not finished above fourth place. While the squad did not walk away with the team championship trophy, junior Karen Dennison captured her second individual title of the year by shooting a 212 and finishing 4-under par for the tournament. Dennison finished four shots ahead of her closest competitor, junior Malinda Johnson from Wisconsin.


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Player comes back to game

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Oliver Miller's travels to return to the NBA have been as wide as his portly 325-pound frame. Miller, a first-round pick in 1992 who helped Phoenix reach the NBA Finals as a rookie, is trying to win a roster spot in training camp with the Indiana Pacers. Miller, though, doesn't look at this as a last chance to revive a stagnant NBA career. Instead, he says he is hungry again. The 32-year-old, 6-foot-9 center has rediscovered his love for the game and says he can become a productive player again. "I'll never cut it out unless I'm in a wheelchair, a walker, or you see me somewhere on Jerry Springer stuck in a bed and I can't get out," Miller said. What Miller was stuck in was career limbo, wondering whether he would ever get the chance to play again in the NBA. Now, he's asking the Pacers for a fair shot at making the roster and not use his fluctuating weight as an excuse. "It's always about my weight, my weight," Miller said. "Even when I was in the CBA, it was we wanted you but we heard you couldn't run up and down the floor. We heard you were 500 pounds. Don't believe everything you hear. Put me out in the floor and then make a judgment."

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Baseball managers and coaches fail to motivate

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In the closing weeks of the season and with his team out of contention, Chicago Cubs manager Don Baylor downplayed the importance of motivating players. "I get sick and tired of people saying you have to motivate," Baylor told the Houston Chronicle. "Motivation, everyone talks about it, but that's a bunch of (bull) if I ever heard it. Sometimes people get carried away with that term. I don't think I ever had to be motivated by a manager." Days later, Baylor was fired. Now, he has company. Man, does he have company. Since the start of the regular season in April, twelve out of thirty teams have parted ways with their managers. Head coaches are falling left and right, and many of them come from teams that were supposed to contend.


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Baseball playoffs up to bat

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As a Cubs fan, telling the differences between the regular season and postseason approximates the differences between my everyday life and Michael Jackson's life. I have trouble comprehending. My life is ordinary. Jacko the Germ Fighter's life isn't. Nothing is more exciting than a tense, well-played baseball game except perhaps a tense, poorly played baseball game. Even Twins manager Ron Gardenhire found it comical when four Twins let Scott Hatteberg's routine pop-up fall between them for an RBI single. TV cameras caught Gardenhire laughing in the dugout. That's a good thing as the Twins settled down to win both the game and eventually the series.


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Runner surprises coach, surpasses own expectations

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When men's cross country coach Robert Chapman designed his plan to rebuild his team, he wanted to use a base of Indiana high school stars and eventually land some high school All Americans. Last year, Chapman was able to take a step towards those national stars by bringing in three Foot Locker All-Americans in Stephen Haas from North Carolina and twins John and Sean Jefferson from Florida. He also brought in Eric Redman from Indianapolis, a signing that slipped under the spotlight. After redshirting his freshman cross country season, Redman has been the team's biggest surprise this year.


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Team hopes to step up performance

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For many teams, there comes a point during a season when they either step up or stay at their current pace. Following their fifth place finish at the Notre Dame Invitational, coach Judy Wilson said it is definitely time for the women's cross country team to step it up. "Our top three or four runners need to step it up," Wilson said. "The good thing is that we were in the top five (at the Notre Dame Invitational), but it wasn't a stellar performance. The exciting part is that we're capable of a lot more when we have everyone on all cylinders."


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Team sits 3 strokes back

For the third consecutive tournament, Karen Dennison and the IU women's golf team stand near the very front of the pack at the end of day one. After 36 holes at the Shootout at the Legends in Franklin, Ind., Dennison sits comfortably with a six stroke lead for the individual title, while the Hoosiers are three strokes behind Kent State for first place in the team portion.


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Grabavoy finds offensive spark

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Sophomore midfielder Ned Grabavoy came to the IU soccer program as a highly touted high school phenom looking to prolong the tradition of excellence of IU men's soccer. After an injury-plagued season last year and a scoreless first five matches this season, it was just a matter of time before Grabavoy got his offense going. That time has come. Beginning with IU's match against Air Force on Sept. 13, Grabavoy has notched a point in all six


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Team sits 3 strokes back

For the third consecutive tournament, Karen Dennison and the IU women's golf team stand near the very front of the pack at the end of day one. After 36 holes at the Shootout at the Legends in Franklin, Ind., Dennison sits comfortably with a six stroke lead for the individual title, while the Hoosiers are three strokes behind Kent State for first place in the team portion.


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Sophomore builds on experience

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Jakub Praibis came all the way from Litomerice, Czech Republic, but acts as though coming to IU to play for the tennis team was no big deal. "My parents made me come," the 20-year-old sophomore said. "It's hard for me not to be at home, but it's possible (to deal with)."


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Seniors serious about high expectations

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The women's rowing team has set their sights high for this season. They are expecting to compete for the Big Ten championship in May and they are also expecting to receive a bid to the NCAA Championships. These are lofty expectations for a team that is just in its fourth year of being a varsity sport. Bolstering those expectations is a group of six seniors, Danielle Bird, Margarete Clark, Becky England, Erin Koers, Stephanie Mast, and Emily Rumschlag. Together, the seniors said they are working harder than ever to reach their goals.


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Hoosiers enter second tournament of season

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Starting today and continuing through to tomorrow afternoon, the IU women's golf team will attempt to win its second team tournament of the season when they compete in the Shootout at the Legends event at the Legends of Indiana Golf Club in Franklin. No. 11 Indiana is the top ranked team by Golfweek/Sagarin at this week's 12-team event.


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Giants bigger than Braves

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Livan Hernandez boasted about his postseason perfection, then went out and backed it up. Hernandez won again in October and the San Francisco Giants battered Tom Glavine for the second time to beat the Atlanta Braves 8-3 Sunday and even their NL division series at 2-2.



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Big Ten teams top classic

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The Big Ten took on the Big 12 this weekend at the Hoosier Classic tennis tournament. Big Ten teams, which consisted of IU, Ohio State and Iowa, compiled a dominating 54-26 record in competition against Big 12 foes Kansas, Kansas St. and Missouri.


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Women's crew rows their way to first place

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The women's rowing team kicked off their season by hosting the fifth annual Lemon Head Regatta Saturday. The day was highlighted by the Hoosiers' Novice 4 finishing in first place and the Varsity Eight taking third.


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On the sidelines

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Twins join Angels in championship series Rolen may not play in NLCS Raiders beat Bills, remain unbeaten


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Hoosiers discover success comes in twos

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This weekend the IU women's soccer team had two gritty performances and two stellar halves of soccer against two teams from Chicago. They can thank two freshmen for these results.