Thursday, January 24, 2002

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Diamond in the Rough
Women’s tennis No. 1 player focusing efforts on another championship
Bethany McCormack
Copy Desk Chief

Katrin Gaber wears a reminder on her finger of the success she and her tennis teammates shared last year. The ring, set with a large purple rectangular stone sparkles on her finger. All the members of the last year’s team received one after becoming the Western Athletic Conference champions.
Another conference title is a goal for Gaber and the rest of the team, but instead of a WAC crown Gaber is in the hunt for a title in Conference USA. This season will mark the first for TCU in C-USA.
“We (are) trying to get another one,” she said. “… If we win again this year.”

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Erin Munger/Skiff Staff
Katrin Gaber holds the No. 1 spot on the women’s tennis team. The team is ranked No. 22 in a preseason polls by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

 

 

Lounsbury named assistant at Tulsa
By Nathan Loewen
Assistant Sports Editor

TCU quarterbacks coach Dan Lounsbury will be the offensive coordinator for Tulsa next season, Golden Hurricane head coach Keith Burns announced Tuesday.
Lounsbury leaves TCU after one year as the quarterbacks coach.

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Frogs continue skid with loss to Eagles
Skiff Staff

The TCU men’s basketball team extended its losing streak to a season-high six games as the Frogs lost to the Marquette Golden Eagles, 83-72, Wednesday night at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.
The losing streak marks the longest since the 1992-93 season when the Frogs dropped eight straight games.

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Eagles enjoy flying as underdogs against Rams
By Rob MAADDI
Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles are used to being underdogs.
Not many people outside their own locker room thought the Eagles would reach the NFC Championship game this season. Even fewer people give them a chance against the faster and explosive St. Louis Rams on Sunday.
“We’ve been the underdog all year so it’s nothing new to us,” quarterback Donovan McNabb said Wednesday.

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KRT Campus
Philadelphia running back Duce Staley dives into the endzone past Chicago’s Warrick Holdman for a third-quarter touchdown of Saturday’s NFC Divisional playoff between the Eagles and Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago.


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