When Iowa students leave the south entrance of the Main Library and stroll through Gibson Square during the fall of 2009, they will no longer be faced with an uninspiring complex of parking lots and mundane structures.
Instead, a shimmering chateau of glass and red brick will stand on the same ground the UI police and maintenance facilities once occupied.
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As more college basketball studs are dropping finance classes to negotiate an NBA contract, Purdue's two rarities could be the difference tonight against Iowa.
Fifth-year seniors Carl Landry and David Teague are among a dying breed, but they could land the Boilermakers in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003. Landry ranks third in Big Ten scoring with 19.2 points a game, while Teague earned conference Player of the Week honors after scoring a career-high 32 points against Indiana.
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It began in front of a television screen. They were two young tykes parked in front of the tube, watching the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics in their Pennsylvania home.
Tom and Jonathan Buese, brothers, born two years apart in October, witnessed the events of the world games as they unfolded before them.
One was 6, and the other 4. One wanted to learn how to do a back flip - the other just wanted to be like his older brother.
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After each grueling point she wins, Iowa women's tennis player Milica Veselinovic - who calls Sombor, Serbia, home - shouts a phrase to maintain her intensity while paying homage to her native land: AJDE!
Pronounced "I-day," the junior, who plays No. 2 singles for the Hawkeyes, said the phrase translates to something similar to "come on" in English.
"It's a great motivation," she said. "That's what I was doing when I played back home, since I was like 10."
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Bassmaster Classic - by Alex Johnson
Mike Iaconelli, Kevin VanDam, Charles "Chuck" Kennedy, Davis Phillips, and Leonard Buchanon.
Names at the pinnacle of bass-fishing circles around the lakes of America.
Sort of.
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BURNSIDE, Iowa (AP) - Indianapolis Colts tight end Dallas Clark was kicked out of a high-school girls basketball game after making "inappropriate" comments to a referee officiating the game, school officials said.
Clark, a Livermore native and former Iowa football player, was asked to leave the gymnasium during a game Feb. 17 between Twin River Valley of Bode, where he attended high school, and Southeast Webster-Grand of Burnside.
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