When it comes to wrestling, winning isn't the only thing that matters to 149-pounder Brent Metcalf. How he wins is important, too.
Call him a chip off the block of his head coach, Tom Brands. Call him a wrestling workaholic with a bottomless-pit appetite for triumph.
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With finals week winding down on campus, the Iowa baseball team hopes to salvage a little respect as it closes the books on a disappointing 2008 campaign.
The Hawkeyes (20-31, 8-20) will play the first of a four-game series with Ohio State (28-22, 13-13) today at Banks Field, with the first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.
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It's going to take more than a bum elbow to keep Matt Mossey off the diamond. The pain is tolerable while he waits for surgery after the season.
After tearing a ligament in his elbow on April 30, Mossey has come in to play second base late in games when he isn't in the dugout handing out tips to his teammates.
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The Iowa men's track team isn't expecting a conference title in Champaign, Ill. at the Big Ten championships Friday.
That won't stop them from maximizing their efforts.
"I'd like to see us control the controllables," head coach Larry Wieczorek said. "You can't control if you win or lose, but you can control if you compete like a champion. We won't go into the weekend with all of the guns that we had back in September but certainly with a great group of guys that've worked hard.
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On the same day that senior Diane Nukuri was named by *The Daily Iowan* as Female Athlete of the Year, she was awarded the 2008 Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award by the National Association of Academic Advisers for Athletics. (0) comments
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