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Lance does it again

By Alyson Brodsy and John Leicester · Sunday, July 24,2005 10:22 p.m.

PARIS -- Lance Armstrong closed out his amazing career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory Sunday -- and did it a little earlier than expected.

Win could make American a star

By Jordan Majewski · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:29 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Unseeded Robby Ginepri defeated No. 4 seed Taylor Dent on Sunday to win the RCA Tennis Championships, and in the process, emerged as a potentially formidable U.S. threat on the world tennis scene.

Unseeded Ginepri wins RCAs

By Andy Romey · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:28 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Robby Ginepri defeated Taylor Dent 4-6, 6-0, 3-0 Sunday at the RCA Championships final, but Ginepri wasn't alone in handing out the defeat.

Noonan named to MLS All-Star team

By Jordan Majewski · Wednesday, July 20,2005 9:49 p.m.

Former IU soccer standout and All-American Pat Noonan was selected as a MLS All-Star for the second consecutive season Thursday. Noonan, who plays for the New England Revolution, made the team as reserve forward, as he did in 2004.

Big Ten shuffles bowl lineup

Wednesday, July 20,2005 9:23 p.m.

PARK RIDGE, Ill. -- The Big Ten is making some changes to its bowl game lineup. The conference has reached a four-year deal that added the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz., and the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando, Fla., to the list of Big Ten bowl partners, starting in 2006. After this season, the Big Ten will drop the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, and the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn.

Armstrong inches closer to 7th Tour de France title

Wednesday, July 20,2005 9:20 p.m.

REVEL, France -- Lance Armstrong marked another milestone in his Tour de France career by claiming his 79th race leader's yellow jersey Wednesday in a stage won by teammate Paolo Savoldelli.

Brown and Pistons part ways, Saunders next up

By Larry Lage · Wednesday, July 20,2005 9:18 p.m.

DETROIT -- Larry Brown is free to roam again. By letting him go, the Detroit Pistons are looking for their third coach in four seasons, and Flip Saunders is the leading candidate. The Pistons seemed to decide they weren't willing to look past Brown's wandering eye, though they enjoyed a pair of great seasons with him on the sideline. Weeks of negotiations and months of speculation ended -- finally -- on Tuesday night.

Around the game

Wednesday, July 20,2005 9:08 p.m.

Former IU All-American Jeff Overton continues to pile on the accolades as he was selected to represent the United States in the Walker Cup Match Aug. 13 to 14.

IU alumnus makes it big in World Series of Poker

By Mike Malik · Monday, July 18,2005 12:17 a.m.

When alumnus Adam Friedman left IU in May of 2004, he was taking a year off to decide what he wanted to do with his life. Now that he has taken 43rd in the No-Limit Texas Hold'em event at the 2005 World Series of Poker and won more than $235,000, he said what he plans to do may have nothing to do with that degree he got from the Kelley School of Business.

Marek falls in Public Links quarterfinals

By Andy Romey · Sunday, July 17,2005 11:42 p.m.

In a span of just five days, IU men's golf might have found a new face in senior Brad Marek. Marek made an impressive run into the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship in Lebanon, Ohio. Former All-American and recent IU graduate Jeff Overton saw his run end two rounds prior.

5 questions with ESPN's Joe Lunardi

By Rick Newkirk · Friday, July 15,2005 5:30 p.m.

Editor's Note: Indiana Daily Student Senior Writer Rick Newkirk interviewed ESPN "bracketologist" Joe Lunardi via e-mail, asking him five questions about IU's NCAA Tournament fate. Lunardi is a weekly columnist on ESPN.com and regularly contributes to ESPN broadcasts regarding college basketball.

NHL back on ice for '05 season

By Nick O'Neill · Wednesday, July 13,2005 11:26 p.m.

After the first season since 1919 to go by without a Stanley Cup Champion, the NHL finally has agreed to get back on the ice for the upcoming year. The head of the players and owners association met for 10 days in New York, determined to make sure the puck drops for the 2005-2006 season, and agreed to a new six-year labor agreement.

Valentin joins Big Ten Tour

By Jordan Majewski · Wednesday, July 13,2005 11:24 p.m.

Senior IU guard Cyndi Valentin was selected to be a member of the Big Ten Foreign Tour Team, the conference office announced Thursday. Valentin will be one of 12 Big Ten players on the team, which is headed by Penn State coach Rene Portland. The tour begins July 17 in the Netherlands, and culminates on July 27 in Belgium. Valentin said she wasn't overly surprised that she made the team, since she knew that IU coach Sharon Versyp had nominated her.

Nike Camp, Indy play host to nation's best

By Cordell Eddings and Cordell M. Eddings · Monday, July 11,2005 12:27 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- One hundred twenty-nine of the world's best high school basketball players convened among banners of Michael Jordan, Ray Allen and other NBA superstars. The players gathered at the National Institute for Fitness and Sports at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis Tuesday through Saturday at the Nike All-American Camp in Indianapolis. The camp has produced hundreds of NBA stars such as Vince Carter, Allen Iverson and Chris Webber, and is considered one of the best in the nation.

2 Hoosiers play for national team

By Ari Shifron · Sunday, July 10,2005 9:01 p.m.

The U.S. Under-20 soccer team was made up of many of the top college stars in the country, including two Hoosiers, junior Jacob Peterson and freshman Lee Nguyen. Although many think of 16-year-old D.C. United star and U-20 team member Freddy Adu as the young hot shot in soccer, there is another youngster who IU men's soccer coach Mike Freitag hopes is as good -- Nguyen.

IU lands quarterback for '05

By Dan Click · Sunday, July 10,2005 9 p.m.

A life saver isn't just a bite-sized piece of candy to Kellen Lewis. While most college bound prospects signed letters of intent in February, Lewis didn't and he was planning on attending Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia.

Leaving a legacy

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, July 7,2005 1:07 a.m.

The history of IU golf is told through individual blips of conference recognition scattered on the national collegiate golfing radar screen. And then IU golf coach Mike Mayer recruited Evansville native Jeff Overton. Overton's 2001 arrival in Bloomington received little student fanfare and even less campus community publicity. Besides the usual public relations memo and the student newspaper plug, neither Mayer nor the student body knew what to expect from a golfer who first caught the "golfing bug" sometime during his eighth-grade year in middle school.

New Assembly scoreboard to bring video, ads

By Dan Click · Thursday, July 7,2005 1:05 a.m.

Assembly Hall, which has been a part of IU since 1970, is going from outdated to state of the art with the addition of a new $1.99 million scoreboard/video board, IU Athletics Director Rick Greenspan announced Tuesday. The project is being financed by IU Sports Properties through the IU Foundation over a 10-year period. The project will not cost the athletics department any out-of-pocket expense. In addition to the new system, the athletics department is slated to receive $250,000 in revenue in the first year.

2012 Olympic Games go to Great Britain

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, July 7,2005 12:25 a.m.

London was named the host of the 2012 Olympics Wednesday, beating out Paris, Madrid, Moscow and New York. The final vote for the winner of the Games of the 30th Olympiad was a contest between Paris and London, after three preliminary rounds "voted out" the other three cities. London barely won the vote by a count of 54 to 50.

Young IU wide receivers look to step up in 2005

By Sam Story · Thursday, July 7,2005 12:23 a.m.

If there is a position that sticks out like a sore thumb for lack of experience on the IU football team, it well could be wide receiver. But don't tell them that. "We got talent. We got dominant players," said junior return man/wideout Lance Bennett. "But we got to be dominant." Dominance is not

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