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Culbertson displays courage

MUNCIE, Ind. – Heart: n., courage or emotion.
I used to think I knew what it meant to play with emotion, to give it all you’ve got and then some, to play with heart.
Boy, was I wrong.
The performance displayed by the CMU women’s basketball team in Monday night’s 95-81 defeat to Ball State was one for [...]

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CMU softball team struggles to 1-4 record

The CMU softball team opened up the 2000 season this weekend but struggled in a tournament hosted by UNLV, winning only one of five games.
Sunday
CMU 1, Loyola Marymount 0
Central star pitcher Tina Kinney hurled a [...]

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Women’s hoops loses at Akron

Shooting 34 percent from the field and 45 percent from the line won’t win many basketball games.
Unfortunately for the CMU women’s basketball team they found this out the hard way.
Despite an 18 point, 11 rebound effort from Vershaun Jones, the Chippewas fell to the University of Akron, 68-60 in Mid-American Conference action Saturday.
Jones also added [...]

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Disappointing season can only get better

With its loss Saturday to arch-rival Western Michigan, the CMU men’s basketball team has now lost four in a row for the second time in what has become a disappointing season to say the least.
But don’t shed a tear for Head Coach Jay Smith or his team, they’re the only ones more disappointed than the [...]

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Chippewa nickname should stay

Pardon me for a moment if I take a step away from athletics to focus on an issue that affects the entire CMU community as a whole.
It seems that a number of students have taken it upon themselves to push for the change of CMU’s Chippewa nickname.
From the recent resolutions passed by the Residence Hall [...]

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Western rips women’s hoops team 82-63

On Saturday, the CMU women’s basketball team looked to win its fourth game in five outings, unfortunately the Western Michigan Broncos had other ideas.
Led by four starters in double figures, two of whom also had double-digit rebounds, the Broncos stampeded the Chippewas, 82-63.
“I was really disappointed in our play today,” CMU Head Coach Fran Voll [...]

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Signing day proves fruitful as DeBord announces 20 recruits

Wednesday was the day thousands of high school football players, and hundreds of college programs, had waited for all year, national signing day.
The CMU football team joined in the excitement of the day as Head Coach Mike DeBord announced the signing of 20 student-athletes to national letters of intent for the fall season, his first [...]

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Women’s hoops team wins home thriller over EMU

They say football is a game of inches, in that same tone, basketball is a game of seconds.
That was never more true than during Saturday’s 69-67 Central victory over Eastern Michigan in women’s basketball.
EMU had the ball with the score tied at 67 and only 41 seconds left and was looking to take the lead [...]

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