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Nike Camp, Indy play host to nation's best

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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.


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2 Hoosiers play for national team

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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.


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IU lands quarterback for '05

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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.


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Leaving a legacy

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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.

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New Assembly scoreboard to bring video, ads

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Assembly Hall, which has been a part of IU since 1970, is going from outdated to state of the art with the addition of a new $1.99 million scoreboard/video board, IU Athletics Director Rick Greenspan announced Tuesday.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.


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2012 Olympic Games go to Great Britain

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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.


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Young IU wide receivers look to step up in 2005

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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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Timberwolves pick Wright in 2nd round

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Forty-six picks came and went, but Bracey Wright's Draft night came to a close as the Minnesota Timberwolves selected him in the second round with the No. 47 pick overall. Though Wright was drafted, only first round picks are given guaranteed contracts. Despite falling lower than he and his agent Bob McClaren felt he would go, Wright said he is still excited about going to the Timberwolves.


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NBA Draft seeing Blue

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The North Carolina Tarheels dominated throughout the college season, winning 33 games en route to the 2005 National Championship. Tuesday night in New York, the Tarheels stole the show at the NBA Draft as four players from the title squad were selected in the lottery, in the first 14 picks of the draft. It was the first time any school had four players picked in the lottery. The last team to have four players selected in the first round was Duke in 1999.


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UPDATE: Wright picked 47th overall by Minnesota

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46 picks came and went, but Bracey Wright's Draft night came to a close as the Minnesota Timberwolves selected him in the second round with the No. 47 pick overall. On the night, Minnesota also selected former North Carolina guard Rashad McCants in the first round with the No. 14 pick. McCants was one of four UNC players selected in the lottery portion of the Draft. Check more in Thursday's paper on the Bracey Wright and the rest of the NBA Draft.


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Bracing for the Future

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It's the eleventh hour for Bracey Wright's fifteen minutes of fame. Will his stardom carry on out of the Hoosier state? Months of working out, training and auditioning culminates Tuesday night in New York at the NBA Draft. The draft will be in Madison Square Garden and on ESPN at 6 p.m. Wright plans to be in New York Tuesday, but feels waiting in the green room with the rest of the top prospects might be nerve-wracking. "(The draft) is all about who wants it more -- it is tough. This month and all these workouts determine where you go and what happens with you and it erases the last 15 years of basketball up to this point."


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Bracey hoping it is the Wright time

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Months worth of working out, practicing and living a jet-setting life will come to a close Tuesday as Bracey Wright will find out if all that work pays off in the NBA Draft. Throughout the process Wright has been all over the country in hopes of impressing teams enough to make him a draft pick -- possibly a first-round selection.


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Former assistant named new coach

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Former IU assistant coach Tracy Smith left Miami University of Ohio to replace Bob Morgan as IU's next baseball coach Wednesday.





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3 Hoosiers pick up national, conference accolades

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A trio of IU football players -- senior Kyle Killion, junior Lance Bennett and sophomore Tracy Porter -- proved they are capable of performing on the gridiron as they recently received national recognition by pre-season magazines.


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Hoosiers land South quarterback

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In IU football coach Terry Hoeppner's first recruiting class he scoured the entire country for a quarterback. This year he only needed to look across town.


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Hoosiers land South quarterback

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As the temperature rises in the summer recruiting battles over the top high school football players follow suit. Ben Chappell decided to end things Saturday before it got too hot as he became the second IU football commitment for 2006.