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(05/21/07 12:20am)
While most people had a team to back them up if they stumbled, IU golfer Jorge Campillo had no such luck this weekend. \nAlthough the IU men’s golf team as a whole won two tournaments this year, it was not enough to qualify them for the NCAA Central Regional. That left team leader Campillo to compete on his own as an individual. He was not quite up to the challenge to take on some of the NCAA’s best golfers and finished a disappointing 72nd. \nWith the par set at 72, Campillo fired a three-day total of 235 to finish at 19 strokes over par. He improved Friday and Saturday, shooting a 76 and 77, respectively, after opening the tournament with an 82. \nTulsa won the tournament as a team, while the top 10 team finishers who will advance to the national championship include Big Ten rivals Michigan State \nand Minnesota. \nLamar’s Dawie Van Der Walt and Wisconsin’s Dan Woltman tied for the individual title, with both finishing the tournament at one under par.\nCampillo now will head to Owings Mills, Md., where he will represent the Europeans in the 2007 Palmer Cup. The Palmer Cup is a Ryder Cup-style match between American golfers and European golfers and will take place on June 7 and 8 at the Caves Valley Golf Club.
(05/17/07 1:44pm)
At least one basketball player will jump off the Hoosier bandwagon before the start of next season. On Wednesday, The Twin Falls, Idaho Times-News reported that Joey Shaw will be transferring to The College of Southern Idaho. \nShaw’s transfer comes after a season in which he saw little playing time. Although he appeared in 31 of 32 games last season, Shaw’s time on the court was often sporadic and decreased during tournament play. \nThe 6-foot-6 guard averaged 4.5 points per game last season and scored in double-digits in four contests. In his finest game as a Hoosier, Shaw came off the bench to score 19 points in 18 minutes, helping Indiana defeat Purdue on Jan. 10. \nAt Southern Idaho, Shaw will be reunited with two of his former Arizona Magic AAU teammates, who also elected to transfer to the school recently. Before coming to IU, Shaw played at Deer Valley High School in Glendale, Ariz. \nIn addition to his two former teammates, Shaw will also be reunited with Southern Idaho assistant coach Jeff Renegar, who announced the transfer.\nRenegar told the Twin Fall Times-News that he has known Shaw since his sophomore year of high school and said, ‘He’s just a great kid. (He) can do it all.”\nAlthough rumors of Shaw’s departure have been circulating for two months, it appears the move came as a surprise to IU coach Kelvin Sampson. On April 26, Sampson said in a statement that Shaw would be returning to IU’s backcourt. \nSampson singled out Shaw and Armon Bassett in the interview, saying the two players “impressed me the most of anyone on the team” this offseason. \nBut with six incoming recruits this fall, several who play the same position, Shaw’s playing time was not expected to see an increase anytime in the near future. Junior College Player of the Year Jamarcus Ellis and Crane Tech’s Brandon McGee are two of the players expected to fill the void left by Shaw. \nWith his transfer, Shaw will have an opportunity to showcase his abilities on a regular basis. Unlike if he were transferring to a NCAA Division I school, Shaw will not be forced to sit out a season before becoming eligible. After completing the 2007-08 season at CSI, Shaw will have the option to transfer to any school in the nation, including a Division I, for his junior and senior years, without penalty. \nDue to the timing of Shaw’s transfer, it is unlikely the Hoosiers will use Shaw’s scholarship for the upcoming season. Rather, they will likely save it for the class of 2008, which they are recruiting heavily. The Hoosiers will have four to six scholarships available to hand out to the class of 2008. \nIU had no comment on Shaw’s departure.
(05/17/07 2:07am)
LONDON – It’s the story of one man, his dog and the police.\nThe tale of Chelsea soccer manager Jose Mourinho’s clash with authorities began when his wife called him Tuesday evening to say police were trying to seize their Yorkshire terrier over an alleged violation of Britain’s strict quarantine laws, according to The Sun newspaper.\nMourinho left Chelsea’s Player of the Year awards and rushed home, where his wife had refused to let police take the animal and had gotten into an argument with officers. Mourinho then argued with the officers himself, leading to his arrest for obstructing police, although no charges were filed. In the meantime, the little dog disappeared.\nNow, officials are looking for the fugitive terrier, and Mourinho, whose outspoken criticism of opposing players, coaches and referees has made him one of the most polarizing figures in English soccer, is once again at the center of a controversy.\nScotland Yard said the dog was to be seized under the Animal Health Act of 1981 and the Rabies Order of 1974. Britain’s animal quarantine laws only allow dogs into the country after they have obtained a “pet passport,” a six-month process that involves rabies vaccination, tick and tapeworm treatments, blood tests and other steps.\nEven pets born and bred in Britain need a passport if they are returning from abroad.\nIt was unclear if the dog had recently been out of the country, and a statement issued Wednesday on Mourinho’s behalf said the dog had gotten all its proper shots.\n“The incident occurred due to a misunderstanding over documents required for veterinary regulations,” the statement said. “Mr. Mourinho would like to make it clear that his pet dog was bought in England from a reputable breeder and has had all its necessary inoculations.”\nA spokesman for Westminster Council said animal control officers were still looking for the small dog. He said the council had a good record of tracking down pets: in July 2005, it found actress Liz Hurley’s dog, Emily, after the Labrador went missing.\nMourinho’s dog will be handed over to police if it is found, the spokesman said.\nA Chelsea soccer official said Wednesday the terrier was safe, without providing any further details. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.\nMourinho, a native of Portugal, said nothing in the sport has affected him like the media frenzy surrounding the police’s attempt to collar his canine.\n“In football nothing hurts me, nothing hurts me,” Mourinho said Wednesday. “What hurts me is what happened yesterday to my family – not me, my family.”
(05/17/07 12:25am)
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Tomas Holmstrom finished with two goals, an assist and 13 stitches.\nHolmstrom scored in each of the first two periods and the Detroit Red Wings took control early on the way to a 5-0 victory Tuesday night over the Anaheim Ducks in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals.\nDominik Hasek made 29 saves, and the Red Wings scored three times on 13 shots against Anaheim’s Jean-Sebastien Giguere to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series and regain home-ice advantage.\nGame 4 is Thursday night in Anaheim.\n“I think we were successful with all the four lines going,” Holmstrom said. “We started scoring from lots of guys, too. We had lots of speed.\n“We played a really, really solid hockey game. Anaheim will come out and play a better game next game for sure.”\nHolmstrom left the game at 11:40 in the second period after the Ducks’ Rob Niedermayer and Chris Pronger simultaneously slammed him into the glass. The Detroit forward, who lost the puck just before he was hit, spent several moments lying on the ice with the team’s trainers tending to him.\nHolmstrom finally got up and went off to have two cuts on his forehead stitched up. He returned to start the third period and assisted on Detroit’s final goal.\n“I got run into the boards, got hit again,” he said. “I never saw the guy come from behind.”\nThe medical staff made sure he didn’t have a concussion.\n“Get stitched up, yeah, I was ready for the third,” Holmstrom said.\nNiedermayer drew a five-minute major for boarding and was ejected.\n“I was very surprised about the call,” he said. “All I did was take a few strides, finish my check and hit him with my shoulder.\n“You don’t want to see anybody hurt out there, that’s for sure. I’m glad he was back playing.”\nThe Red Wings failed to score on that lengthy man advantage, and had 13 minutes of power-play time on five advantages in the second period but didn’t score. They were 1-for-9 overall.\nThe 42-year-old Hasek logged his second shutout of this year’s playoffs and the 14th of his career. He had eight during this regular season to run his total to 76, giving him a combined 90 in the regular season and playoffs.\nJohan Franzen opened the scoring 11:09 in, Holmstrom got his first goal of the night at 19:17 of the period, and Todd Bertuzzi made it 3-0 at 3:17 of the second. Ilya Bryzgalov replaced Giguere, and Holmstrom greeted him by scoring on a rebound just 17 seconds later.\nValtteri Filppula, who earlier had an assist, capped the scoring midway through the third period.\nNicklas Lidstrom and Henrik Zetterberg each had two assists for the Red Wings.\nThe loss was the most lopsided in the Ducks’ playoff history.\nHolmstrom scored his second goal of the game and fifth of this year’s playoffs when he knocked in a rebound of Filppula’s wraparound. Holmstrom’s first came on a power play when he beat Giguere with a 30-foot slap shot.\nFranzen, skating down just to the left of the crease, took a centering pass from Mikael Samuelsson from the right boards and one-timed the puck past Giguere for his third goal of the playoffs.\nBertuzzi made it 3-0 when the puck deflected off his left skate and into the net. A cross-ice pass from Holmstrom to Filppula resulted in the final goal.\nBryzgalov faced 15 shots.
(05/16/07 6:56pm)
Freshman guard Joey Shaw will leave the basketball team and transfer to the College of Southern Idaho next season, according to a report from the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho. Shaw will join the Junior College team along with two other transfers, Daren Jordan from Oral Roberts and Harvey Perry from Washington. \nJordan and Perry were teammates of Shaw during the three players’ senior year of high school as members of the Arizona Magic AAU travel team. Southern Idaho assistant coach Jeff Renegar is a longtime friend of Magic coach Anthony Ray and told the Times-News he has known Shaw through Ray since his sophomore year of high school.\nShaw appeared in 31 of IU’s 32 games last season, starting in three. He averaged 4.5 points per game, and 1.9 rebounds per game, after redshirting during his first year at IU.\nSee Thursday’s IDS for more information.
(05/14/07 12:04am)
After a disappointing weekend, the phrase “wait ‘til next year” has become all but embraced by the Hoosier baseball team. IU dropped all four games against Illinois, bringing their record to a dismal 6-21 in the Big Ten, 17-33 overall. \nIU started their final conference road series strong on Friday at Illinois Field. The Hoosiers got three on the board during the top of the first when designated hitter Jon Fixler and sophomore right fielder Chris Hervey both batted in RBI singles. Freshman first baseman Brad Henke singled, scoring Fixler. The strong lead didn’t last long, as the Illini brought it within one during the third on a Hoosier error. \nThe Hoosiers managed another run in the fifth inning, but the Illini took the lead during the sixth when they managed a four-hit inning. The game was tied 4-4 when Illinois shortstop Shawn Roof got an RBI single. Soon after, second baseman Ryan Hastings hit a sacrifice fly to bring the score to 6-4. The Hoosiers scored their fifth run during the seventh inning when centerfielder Andrew Means batted in second baseman Keith Haas. \nSaturday’s doubleheader started off rough for IU, who did not score during the first game. The Illini had their first run of the game in the first, when Brandon Wikoff got on base with a single and was eventually driven in when Mike Rohde singled through the right side. The second inning was the most promising for the Hoosiers. They had two hits, their most in an inning during the course of the game. Despite the hits, the team left three men on base and failed to score. The Illini managed another two runs in the second, and won the game 3-0.\nThe second game of the doubleheader looked promising for IU when they got the first run of the game during the second inning. Designated hitter Reid Briglia was hit by a pitch to get him on base, and he advanced to third when Henke singled through the right side. He scored on a sacrifice bunt by third baseman Billy O’Conner. The Hoosiers scored another run during the third when Evan Crawford doubled and reached third on a ground out by Mack. Haas drove him in with a sac fly to bring the score to 2-0. IU did not score again in the game.\nIllinois began their charge toward the win in the third inning, scoring a run when left fielder Joe Bonadonna stole third and scored on a single by Ryan Snowden. IU only saw significant action during the fifth inning, when they got two hits. They failed to notch any more hits during the course of the game.\nThe Illini exploded for four runs in the sixth. Catcher Lars Davis singled to center field and reached second on a single by Rohde. Then designated hitter Daniel Webb singled to right field, scoring Davis. IU pitcher. Chris Squires replaced Matt Bashore for the Hoosiers on the mound, and his first pitch resulted in an RBI for Roof. The last run of the game scored by Illinois came on a wild pitch, plating Roof and moving Hastings to second.\nThe fourth and final game of the series was played on Sunday, and the previous three games took their toll on the team. The Hoosiers were unable to hold off the Illini, who won the game 7-2. \nIU managed a run in the first inning, which was overshadowed during the bottom of the inning by Illinois’ three runs on two hits. Davis singled out to right field, and moved second when IU pitcher Eric Arnett walked Rohde. The next two hitters were no better for Arnett, who walked Webb to load the bases and then hit Roof to score Davis. Hastings singled and was thrown out at second, but Webb and Rohde both scored. \nIU had some luck in the third inning when they got two runs on three hits. Mack singled and was sent to second by a single from Haas. He was thrown out at third after Crawford bunted into a fielder’s choice. Both Crawford and Haas advanced a base on an error by the second baseman, and scored on a single by Fixler. Despite the runs, the Illini sealed the win during the fifth after scoring three runs on three hits. The Hoosiers had two errors. \nGoing into the weekend, the Illini were the sixth-ranked team in the Big Ten, which is the lowest ranking a team can have to be included in the Big Ten championships. The Hoosiers were ranked tenth.
(05/10/07 4:00am)
Canadian crooner Michael Bublé says he was completely terrified about making his latest album, Call Me Irresponsible, because he "knew that it had to be better than the first two (albums) -- that it had to show growth without alienating anyone ..."\nHis worries should be put to rest now because the work he describes as his "remark on the state of love" is as complete an album as any I've come across in recent times.\nThe lineup includes everything: upbeat hits that make you want to dance, the usual jazz staples of the Rat Pack era, av '60s rock cover and two Bublé originals.\nThe album kicks off with a lively "The Best is Yet to Come," featuring a menage of sounds, including finger snaps and horns, and continues the upbeat spirit with "It Had Better Be Tonight." \nAs with his previous albums, Bublé plays the modern-day Sinatra, including classic favorites like "I've Got the World On A String," "Always On My Mind" and a gospel choir-backed "That's Life." \nThough no one could ever outdo the original, Bublé does an interesting take on the Eric Clapton favorite, "Wonderful Tonight," and he even brings in some of my personal old-school favorites, Boyz II Men, to collaborate on "Comin' Home Baby," delivering another solid performance.\nThe album includes two originals, "Lost," which I can't stop listening to, and "Everything." The former is about his breakup with a longtime girlfriend and the latter is about his feelings for his newfound love interest. Both songs show that Bublé has the talent to stand on his own (although covers are what he does best).\nHis last album, It's Time, was on the Billboard jazz charts for two years, breaking a record with 80 weeks at No. 1. But with this album, even more solid and thorough than the last, that record just might be in jeopardy.
(05/10/07 4:00am)
It would be easy to listen to the new Rush album, Snakes and Arrows, and think: 'the 1980s called, they want their album back.' But from the opening track it is clear that there is something fresh about this album. This album is a return to the monster progressive sound that Rush hit the scene with, but also serves to show how far they have come as a band. With the assistance of Grammy-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz, known for his work with the Foo Fighters, Rush has delivered again on its 18th full-length studio album.\nAs the proverbial needle drops on the first track, "Far Cry," the listener is greeted with a juxtaposition of acoustic and electric guitars and a few bars later, a thumping bass line that is sure to get your head bopping. Vocalist Geddy Lee sounds as good as ever as his voice soars over the vast soundscape of all that is Rush. One highlight off Snakes and Arrows is the epic-sounding instrumental, "The Main Monkey Business." Drummer Neil Peart drives this track that any progressive rock fan will love. Another highlight is "The Way the Wind Blows," a track that is opened up by a blues riff that works its way in and out of the tune as it plays. \nThis disc will surely quench any fan's thirst for more Rush but may also bring in some new fans. The band covers the grid in terms of genres, moving seamlessly from progressive beasts to ballads. For a band that has seen fame since the mid- to late-'70s, it is truly a feat to create a new album that stays true to their sound while also sounding new, relevant and exciting. The more listeners spin this album, the more they will appreciate the utter complexity that this band brings to the table. Snakes and Arrows is a must-listen for any fan of this band or progressive rock itself. Guitarist Alex Lifeson thrills throughout, and at the album's end the listener is left wanting more.
(05/10/07 4:00am)
Even the most well-traveled people will see less than 1 percent of our planet before they die. This is made abundantly clear in the BBC's 550-minute compendium of the most amazing sights and rare creatures on this rock known simply as "Planet Earth." Segments are divided into geographical regions (Mountains, Fresh Water, Caves, Deserts, Ice Worlds, Great Plains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Seasonal Forests, and Ocean Deep), and each one feels more revelatory than the last. What's on display here cannot be done justice in print, suffice it to say that if the thought of seeing a Great White shark attacking a Cape Fur seal in ultra-slow motion or a rare Asian Snow Leopard hunt Ibex on a near-vertical cliff doesn't excite you, you might as well avoid this series. \nIf you've only witnessed "Planet Earth" during its recent airings on The Discovery Channel, you've been denied the full experience. Not only is there 90 minutes of footage re-inserted into this release that was excised in the series' move from the BBC to American television, but the original David Attenborough narration remains intact. The Discovery Channel, in all its wisdom, saw fit to replace the graceful, engaging narration of the legendary Attenborough with a less effective track recorded by Sigourney Weaver for the benefit of Americans who they must've felt couldn't understand a British man saying words like "glacier" and "algae." \nIn the extras department, this set is loaded to the gills. Each of the 11 individual chapters has its own "Planet Earth Diaries" behind-the-scenes segment, each 10 minutes in length, chronicling the toughest tests the series' camera crew and location scouters had to face to get the shots they needed. Being hunted by a hungry polar bear, scaling a mountain of bat feces, swimming with piranhas and spending nearly a month in a camouflaged, claustrophobic box to film the vibrant courtship rituals of New Guinea's Birds of Paradise only scratches the surface of what these men went through to bring the rarely seen to viewers. The fifth and final disc of this set, titled "Planet Earth: The Future," is a 150-minute forum on how we humans can best interact with our planet in the future to ensure we don't lose it. It's never preachy, and certainly never political, in making an excellent case for consideration, conservation and preservation. \nI would recommend the HD and Blu-Ray versions if only they didn't omit all of the extras found on the standard DVD version due to disc space constraints. Aside from showing us hours of spectacular sights most of us will never see first hand, all filmed and narrated with the utmost respect and reverence, "Planet Earth"'s ultimate triumph is reminding us that protecting our planet is not a partisan political issue but a deeply moral one.
(05/10/07 4:00am)
The first "Spider-Man" soundtrack was fairly eclectic, but is best remembered for the execrable "Hero" by Nickleback's Chad Kroger. "Spider-Man 2's" soundtrack was a big, steaming lump of pop-punk and emo straight from the bowels of MTV. So, it was a considerable surprise when word got out that "Spider-Man 3's" soundtrack would be indie-rock dominated. And not just by crossovers like Snow Patrol, The Killers and Wolfmother -- but also such unquestionably indie acts as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Walkmen and The Flaming Lips. So, are we talking about the next "Garden State"?\nWell, no, unfortunately. For a dude who swings from skyscrapers and pummels supervillains, Spidey gets a pretty dull soundtrack, albeit one that's better than the last two.\n"Signal Fire" begins things badly, with Snow Patrol sounding like Coldplay but not as butch. The Killers' "Move Away" offers far more gusto but is undermined by Brandon Flowers' lyrics about people pulling their skin off. Finally, Yeah Yeah Yeahs produce the album's first decent rock song, the stompy, punky "Sealings" (from the "Driver: Parallel Lines" videogame soundtrack), while Wolfmother's "Pleased To Meet You" is a somewhat bland blues rocker. In "Red River," The Walkmen provide a lively example of their barroom-Dylan sound, and, for "Stay Free," Black Mountain does an OK Shins impression. Then, The Flaming Lips offer up "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How To Be In Love," an exceedingly strange track even for them, with lyrics about Spider-Man fighting Muhammad Ali. And, Simon Dawes' "Scared of Myself" sounds like Elvis Costello doing rock opera.\nSuddenly, Chubby Checker's "The Twist" appears -- apropos of nothing! \nAnd we're back to indie rock again, with Rogue Wave's pretty strummer "Sightlines," and Coconut Records' lo-fi twee-core, "Summer Day." Next, Jet shock the listener by copying The Beatles instead of AC/DC, and Sounds Under Radio apes Snow Patrol. The Wasted Youth Orchestra evokes Elliot Smith doing chamber pop, and The Oohlas close things out with a nice Spector wall-of-sound revival, "Small Parts"\nDespite the soundtrack's highlights, its unremitting glumness gets quite monotonous. Next time, let Venom pick the music.
(05/07/07 4:00am)
The IU track and field squads were able to find success within the comfort of their home facility Friday at the Billy Hayes Invitational. \nFreshman Vera Neuenswander set a new school record in the pole vault and both of the men’s and women’s 4x100-meter relay teams qualified for the NCAA regional meet in Columbia, Mo., on May 25.\nNeuenswander is now the number one ranking freshman nationwide in the pole vault and ranks sixth \noverall after clearing 4.12 meters. The clearance improved her regional qualifying mark 3.95 meters while setting a new IU record. The previous record was 3.96 meters, set by Emily Tharpe in 2002 at the same meet.\n“Vera had a good night,” interim women’s head coach Judy Wilson said in a statement Friday. “She’s confident and ready for Big Tens and is primed to better her indoor season. She’s not afraid to go out and compete.”\nNeuenswander’s vaulting teammates on the men’s squad gathered two more regional qualifying times. Sophomores Blayne Burkholder and Jeff Coover finished first and second respectively. Both cleared 5.05 meters, but Burkholder earned first because he cleared that mark in fewer attempts.\nWith sophomore sprinter Wil Glover recovering from an injury, two-sport athlete in football and track junior Marcus Thigpen has had to take over his leg of the 4x100-meter relay. \nThigpen was not faltered by this task on Friday. He and his relay members – juniors Keith Heerdegen, Jacob Moylan and senior Kiwan Lawson\n finished first. Their time of 40.51 seconds qualified them for the regional meet.\n“I am excited,” interim men’s head coach Wayne Pate said in a statement. “All four of those guys ran really well. Anytime you can get a relay in a regional meet is exciting. It’s really good to be in the mix and hopefully they can advance and do something at nationals.”\nThigpen also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.70 seconds. His football teammate, senior first-year runner Tracy Porter finished 21st with a time of 11.34 seconds.\n“Coach (George) Freeman has done an excellent job with our sprinters,” Pate said in a statement. “It’s really great to have football players make an impact on our program. Marcus is doing a great job. He’s got of a lot speed and coach Freeman has done a really good job in developing that. That benefits both sports.”\nThe women’s 4x100-meter relay squad also recorded a regional qualifying mark. The team, comprised of senior Stacey Clausing, \nsenior Lorian Price, and juniors Kyndal Carr and Zakiya Robinson, recorded a first place finish with a time 45.30 seconds.\nClausing also competed in the 200-meter dash where she earned herself a second regional qualifying mark of the night. She recorded a time of 23.93 seconds placing her first. Not done there, Clausing also competed in the 100-meter dash where she finished second place with a time of 11.97 seconds. \nClausing has now qualified individually in the 200- and 400-meter dashes and with the 4x100-meter relay squad. \n“Stacey just showed tonight that she’s the ultimate team player,” Wilson said in a statement. “She’s getting herself ready for the Big Ten meet. I think she, along with some of the other seniors, have come on at the end. I think they are going to be ready to go.”\nThe Billy Hayes invite served as a warm-up for the Hoosiers. The teams will travel to Penn State May 11 for the Big Ten outdoor championships.
(05/07/07 4:00am)
LAS VEGAS — Floyd Mayweather Jr. wanted to give Oscar De La Hoya a beating. He had to settle for just getting a win.\nMayweather won one of boxing’s richest fights ever Saturday night by using his superb defensive skills and superior speed to take a 12-round split decision and win the WBC 154-pound title in his first fight at that weight.\nThe fight was billed as one that would save boxing, and while it didn’t do that, it was an entertaining battle between two proud champions who both fought hard from the opening bell through the end of the final round.\nThe fight ended with the sellout crowd on its feet roaring and the two fighters trading punches wildly at the final bell. They then stopped and embraced each other.\nMayweather was favored on one scorecard 116-112 and 115-113 on a second. De La Hoya was ahead 115-113 on the third scorecard. The Associated Press had Mayweather winning 116-112.\n“It was easy work for me,” Mayweather said. “He was rough and tough, but he couldn’t beat the best.”\nIn the end, Mayweather was simply faster and more slippery in a bout where neither fighter managed to hurt the other and neither went down.\nStill, De La Hoya did enough to impress at least one judge and thought he did enough to win the fight.\n“I landed the harder, crisper punches,” De La Hoya said. “I felt when I landed my punches I could see I was hurting him. If I hadn’t pressed the fight, there would be no fight.”\nMayweather’s estranged father also thought De La Hoya did enough to win.\n“I thought Oscar won the fight on points, threw more punches and was more aggressive,” said Floyd Mayweather Sr., who used to train De La Hoya. “My son had good defense and caught a lot of his punches, but I still thought Oscar pressed enough to win the fight.”\nRingside punching stats heavily favored Mayweather, crediting him with landing 207 of 481 punches to 122 of 587 for De La Hoya. Mayweather also landed more power punches than De La Hoya, outscoring him 138-82.\nMayweather said before the fight that De La Hoya would fade as the fight went on, and it seemed as though he did. Two judges gave Mayweather four of the last five rounds, making the difference in what turned out to be a closely scored fight.\nThe sellout crowd of 16,200 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena cheered everything De La Hoya did, and booed when the decision was announced. It was the third loss in the last five fights for De La Hoya, who also served as the promoter for the bout.\nDe La Hoya was the aggressor throughout the fight, and he managed to get through Mayweather’s defenses in the early rounds as Mayweather moved away and counterpunched without great effect. Every time Mayweather went near the ropes, De La Hoya tried to trap him there and land a flurry of punches to the body and head.\nDe La Hoya wanted to get Mayweather into a brawl, but he was having no part of it, content to pick his spots and land counterpunches. In the fifth round, however, the fight seemed to shift into a different gear as Mayweather stood his ground and landed some hard combinations to the head.\n“He’s getting tired. He’s getting tired,” Mayweather’s trainer and uncle, Roger Mayweather, told his fighter after the round.\nIt was a night of ebb and flow, with both boxers fighting in flurries and both having their moments. The pro-De La Hoya crowd roared loudly anytime he threw a big punch, while Mayweather smiled at his opponent every time De La Hoya landed a punch that got any reaction from his fans.
(05/07/07 4:00am)
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) - Mi Hyun Kim won a playoff on the first extra hole with Hall of Famer Juli Inkster to capture the SemGroup Championship on Sunday, the South Korean’s first LPGA Tour victory of the year.\nKim missed a 5-footer for par on the 18th to force the playoff with Inkster, who had birdied the hole minutes earlier. On her second try at No. 18 in the playoff, Kim sank a 4-foot putt for par after Inkster made bogey.\nKim started the round one shot behind the leaders and won for the eight time on the tour. Inkster, who will turn 47 next month, would have been the oldest player to win an LPGA Tour event. She closed with a 2-under 69 in regulation.\nKim, who shot a 71, and Inkster finished regulation one shot ahead of Ai Miyazato and Angela Stanford. Three others were at 1 under, including Lorena Ochoa and Stephanie Louden, who began the day in a fourway tie for first.\nKim, whose last tour win in 2006 came after a three-hole playoff with Natalie Gulbis in the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, hit her second shot in the playoff to the fringe on the back of the green, about 35 feet from the hole, and two-putted.\nInkster’s second shot sailed over the green. She chipped 8 feet past the hole but missed the par putt right.\nSix players held the lead at some point on a cloudy, humid day. The par-71 Cedar Ridge Country Club course was soggy from storms that hit Oklahoma the past week.\nMoments after Inkster had bogeyed No. 17 to fall out of the lead, Kim curled in a breaking 15-foot birdie putt at No. 16 to take a two-shot edge. Inkster hit a 6-foot birdie putt on No. 18 to close the gap to one shot.\nKim hit her tee shot into the rough on the par-4 17th, but salvaged par, knocking a 5-foot putt into the center of the hole. On the 18th, her tee shot landed in the middle of the fairway but she hit into a greenside bunker and three-putted for bogey.\nThe round started with four co-leaders – Nicole Castrale, Reilley Rankin, Louden and Karin Sjodin – and none having won on the tour. One by one, they all fell back.\nCastrale, who led after the opening round, was still at 4 under through five holes, but bogeyed four of the next eight. Louden had four bogeys in her first six holes.\nSjodin, who played nearby Oklahoma State, was tied with Inkster for the lead after a 3-foot birdie putt on No. 6, but big trouble followed on the 405-yard, par-4 eighth hole.\nSjodin’s drive went into the deep rough and rolled into a ravine to the right of the fairway. Instead of trying to punch out, she tried an approach shot to the green that caromed off a tree at a 90-degree angle. Her ball ended up in tall grass by a tree adjacent to the 12th fairway, and she kicked her golf bag after seeing where her ball landed.\nAfter taking a drop about 20 yards behind where her ball landed, she reached the green with her next shot, but three-putted from 70 feet for a triple bogey.\nInkster birdied the first two holes, chipped in for par at No. 4 and took the lead with a birdie on No. 6. She held at least a share of it until the bogey at No. 17.\nTour officials moved up Sunday’s tee times by two hours and used threesomes instead of twosomes in a successful effort to avoid weather problems.
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After 22 seasons and more than 300 victories, the tenure of Ken Hydinger as IU men’s tennis coach came to an abrupt end as the University let go of the coach after a 15-12 season.\n“At this time, we believe it is in everyone’s best interest to make a change in the coaching personnel with the men’s tennis team,” Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan said in a statement.\nThe IU Department of Athletics announced Monday that the former Big Ten Coach of the Year will not be returning as head coach of IU. The Hoosiers went 4-6 this year in the Big Ten competition to get the 7th seed in last weekend’s Big Ten tournament. The Hoosiers defeated Iowa in the first round before falling to Michigan 4-1 in the quarterfinals, the second year in a row the Wolverines had ended the Hoosiers season.\nHydinger leaves the Hoosiers despite having only having three losing seasons since the beginning of his coaching career at IU in 1985. He compiled a 324-237-1 record at IU, bringing the Hoosiers to the NCAA Tournament four times, most recently in 2002. In 1992, Hydinger was named the Big Ten coach of the year after leading the Hoosiers to a 16-8 record, with a 9-1 mark in the Big Ten. The 9-1 record remains the highest number of Big Ten wins in one season in program history.\nHydinger was not able to be reached by press time. Players reached by the Indiana Daily Student had no comment on the coaching change.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Carl Nafzger is back in a familiar, successful spot at the Kentucky Derby.\nThe trainer has Street Sense leaving from the No. 7 post, the same position Unbridled was in when Nafzger won the 1990 Derby. There is one difference: Unlike Unbridled, Street Sense could be the favorite by post time.\n“I was hoping to be 20-1 like Unbridled,” Nafzger said. “I don’t care what the morning line is. I’d just like to be No. 1 to the wire.”\nStreet Sense, last year’s 2-year-old champion, barely missed being the favorite by a whisker. Undefeated and unchallenged Curlin was made a slight 7-2 choice Wednesday over a 4-1 Street Sense.\nThere were no hard feelings for Nafzger. Street Sense was sensational in his final Derby drills, and the favorable single-digit post position could make a difference for a horse with only two prep races.\nStill, no Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner in 23 years has won the Derby; no 2-year-old champion has won since Spectacular Bid in 1979, stats which don’t deter Nafzger.\n“He’s been training really good,” he said. “We’re ready to run. We don’t have any excuses. We drew a nice post position and we’ve got a good selection. We’ve just got to go out there and see if we can win.”\nIf Nafzger and jockey Calvin Borel are counting on an old winning number to bring them some luck this year, Curlin has a digit on his side, too: No. 2. The imposing chestnut colt gets the nod from that post for Saturday’s race, starting in the same spot Affirmed did on his way to winning the Triple Crown in 1978 – the last horse to do so.\nCurlin will be ridden by Robby Albarado in a full field of 20 3-year-olds going 1 1/4 miles.\n“We don’t know how good this horse is, but he’s just been dominating,” Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Battaglia said.\nCurlin, though, faces his own obstacles. Like Street Sense, Curlin is relatively inexperienced with only three career races. Curlin didn’t compete as a 2-year-old and it’s been 125 years since Apollo won after sitting out his 2-year-old season.\nOnly the filly Regret in 1915 has won the Derby with less experience than Curlin.\nTrainer Todd Pletcher will try to end his 0-for-14 skid in the Derby with five entries: Any Given Saturday, Circular Quay, Cowtown Cat, Sam P. and Scat Daddy.\n“It’s a very difficult race to win,” he said. “We feel like we got our horses prepared well. Now we need some of the other things to go right.”\nCircular Quay was made the 8-1 co-third choice, along with Nobiz Like Shobiz, trained by Barclay Tagg, who won in 2003 with Funny Cide. Circular Quay, coming off an eight-week layoff, will start in the No. 16 post.\n“He’s a horse that’s probably going to fall a little back in the race,” Pletcher said. “It’s nice we’re placed right outside Tiago because he’s got a similar racing style.”\nWood Memorial winner Nobiz Like Shobiz will leave from the No. 12 post.\nFlorida Derby winner Scat Daddy was installed as the 10-1 fourth choice and will break from the No. 14 post.\nPletcher’s other horses were not among the favorites. Any Given Saturday was listed at 12-1; Cowtown Cat and Sam P. both 20-1.
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INDIANAPOLIS – College basketball players might want to start practicing longer shots.\nThe men’s basketball rules committee approved a measure Thursday that would move the 3-point line back one foot in 2008, from 19 feet 9 inches to 20 feet 9 inches. If approved by the playing rules oversight committee on May 25, it will mark the first major alteration to the 3-point shot since its adoption in the 1986-87 season.\nThe move comes after more than a decade of debate about whether to extend the line. The extended line has been used on an experimental basis in some early-season tournaments and has been shown to cause no dramatic changes in shooting percentages, but it never previously had passed the rules committee for all regular-season and postseason games.\nCommittee chairman Larry Keating said two proposals had been considered. The other would have moved the line to 20 feet 6 inches, the same distance as international 3-pointers. Both are shorter than the NBA line, which is 23 feet 9 inches at the top of the key and 22 feet at its shortest point in the baseline corners.\n“We made it a point to come up with a distance that was correct for us and that didn’t necessarily mimic the international line,” Keating said.\nWomen’s rules committee chairwoman Ronda Seagraves said the 3-point line will remain unchanged in women’s basketball, and Bruce Howard, spokesman for the National Federation of State High School Associations, said he’s unaware of any discussion about changing it on the prep level. High schools also use the 19 foot 9 inch distance.\nThe new men’s rule would impact all three college divisions, and Keating expects the oversight committee to pass the proposal in three weeks.\n“It has passed... for the most part unless there are financial or safety issues, so, yes, I think it will be approved,” he said.\nThe reason for delaying the change until 2008 is money.\nKeating said it was unfair to force schools to add a surprise expenditure this year, since most budgets already have been approved.\nBut Keating expressed little doubt a change to the 3-point line eventually will come.\n“I like to say the day that it passed was the day we began discussing moving it back,” Keating said. “The basic percentages haven’t changed. I think it’s safe to say you might see some reversal on that (percentages) for men.”\nHe also believes it’s necessary to create more space between perimeter and post players, and it could help the rules committee eliminate some of the more physical play – something it has tried to reduce over the past several years.\nIn a similar move, the committee also approved a measure that would change the way players line up on free throws. Rebounders would have to move back one spot on the floor, following the same rules women’s basketball teams currently use.\nBut the committee rejected adding the arch underneath the basket for charge-block calls, a line the NBA uses, in part because it believed there would be too many lines on the court.\nIt also passed measures that would allow officials to use replay monitors when trying to determine flagrant fouls and to assess who started a fight. In addition, it announced that next year’s points of emphasis will include the block-charge calls underneath the basket, enforcement of the coaches’ box and palming.\nThe women’s rules committee passed a measure requiring officials to use replay when a fight breaks out. Current rules allow officials to use replay monitors, but do not make it mandatory.\nThe points of emphasis for the women’s committee next year will focus on traveling, unsportsmanlike behavior and enforcement of the legal guarding position. The committee also rewrote the rules about technical fouls, requiring them to be counted toward individual and team fouls.
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TUPELO, Miss. – St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Randy Flores will miss playing catch with Josh Hancock.\n“Every day, I was reminded of his heart,” Flores said Thursday at a public memorial for his fellow reliever.\nThe Cardinals were among an estimated 500 mourners for Hancock, who died in an automobile accident early Sunday. Flores was the only teammate who spoke at the service, and he recalled Hancock’s nature as a prankster.\nOrganizers had expected three or four Cardinals to participate, including manager Tony La Russa. They also anticipated that several players would speak after the service.\nInstead, on the advice of center fielder Jim Edmonds, the traveling party of 50 filed onto two buses behind the church and left immediately without talking to the media.\n“What do you want me to say?” general manager Walt Jocketty said before boarding.\nHancock’s sister, Katie, a star athlete at Tupelo High School, called him a “great guy, a great man and a great big brother.”\nHancock’s agent, the scout who signed him to his first pro contract and a high school coach all related memories – many of them prompting laughs – in a mostly uplifting hour-long service at First United Methodist Church.\nHancock’s father, Dean Hancock, wore a red ribbon with the No. 32 – his son’s uniform number – on his left lapel as he read a statement before the service. He took no questions, thanking the media for “respecting our privacy and for respecting Josh’s honor.”\n“Professional baseball players are brothers within a family, and the St. Louis Cardinals players and coaches are bonded together, in my opinion, like no other family in baseball,” Hancock said. “Josh was so proud to be a member of that family.”\nHancock was driving a rented Ford Explorer early Sunday when it crashed into a flatbed tow truck on Interstate 64 in St. Louis. Autopsy results have not been released, and toxicology tests were pending.\nThree days before the fatal wreck, Hancock was involved in a pre-dawn accident in Sauget, Ill., that police treated routinely.\nHancock was buried Wednesday in rural Itawamba County.
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The IU women’s golf team wrapped up its season at the Big Ten championship in East Lansing, Mich. \nThe Hoosiers came away with a fifth-place finish that saw all of IU’s players finish the tournament in the top 50. \n“We definitely played with a lot of heart today,” IU coach Clint Wallman said in a statement. “The team did a good job grinding for good scores.” \nPacing the Hoosiers for the second time this year was freshman Anita Gahir, who finished 15th with a four-round score of 310. \nRounding out the field were juniors Elaine Harris and Lauren Harling, who finished in a 21st-place tie. Freshman Kellye Belcher, freshman Laura Nochta and sophomore Amber Lindgren placed 28th, 33rd and 50th. \nMichigan State won the tournament and gained an automatic entry into postseason play. \nMichigan Sate also had the individual winner in senior Rachel Meikle, who was the only player to shoot under par and won by nine strokes.\nThe Hoosiers will now await their fate to see if they make the NCAA Central Regional championships on May 10 in Ann Arbor, Mich. The selection will be made today.
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The IU water polo team ended its season by finishing third at the Collegiate Water Polo Association Eastern Championships this weekend. The Hoosiers, seeded fifth in the tournament, knocked off No. 2-seed and rival Michigan in the third-place match. The Hoosiers finished the regular season with a 19-14 record and probably will not receive an automatic bid for the NCAA tournament. Only three teams receive an at-large bid.\nIU coach Barry King was happy his team won to finish the 2007 campaign.\n“It’s always great to win in the final game of the year, especially over a rival such as Michigan,” King said in a statement. “It was an absolute war, and we happened to get the breaks. Our players handled some adversity in the middle of the match very well.”\nIU beat the Wolverines 5-3 in the match. Junior Brooke Zimmerman notched a hat trick in the contest, and senior Kristin Zernicke and freshman Katie Carson each scored a goal.\nIU beat Brown 9-8 on Saturday but lost to top-seeded Hartwick 15-7 in the tournament semifinals.
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The IU women’s track-and-field squad continued their push toward the Big Ten championships and the NCAA Mideast Regional this weekend at the 98th annual Drake Relays.\nThe women added three more athletes to their pool of regional competitors.\nOn Thursday, the first day of competition, senior Lindsay Hattendorf posted a regional qualifying mark in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 16:39.92. The time is Hattendorf’s new personal best.\n“We have another one on the bus for the regional meet,” women’s interim coach Judy Wilson said in a statement Thursday. “... After coming off a week lay-off after Stanford, we were just trying to get (Hattendorf) in a rhythm again. This was a good indication of her having the ability to run a 16:20 by the time we hit the regional meet.”\nOn the second day of the meet, the women were able to gather two more qualifiers for the Mideast regional. \nSophomore Caity Lauer finished fourth in the 800-meter run, posting personal-best time of 2:07.44. \nOff the track, freshman Vera Neuenswander vaulted 3.95 meters, placing her sixth in the competition and qualifying her for the Mideast regional. The clearance was also good enough to place Neuenswander second all-time at IU in the women’s outdoor pole vault.\nThe men’s weekend was not as successful as the women’s.\nSophomore Jeff Coover placed higher than any of the IU men with an eighth-place finish in the pole vault, clearing 4.90 meters.\nIn its first competition this year, the men’s 4x200-meter relay squad finished ninth with a time of 1:26.99.\nThe teams return to competition Friday when they host the Billy Hayes Invitational.
