UNI’s four-game winning streak came to an end last night in the Dome with a disappointing 68-60 loss to Illinois State. They built a 14 point lead, then gave up an 11 point run and led 32-22 at the half. UNI rallied twice in the second half to cut the lead to three, but couldn’t pull ahead. Ben Jacobsen had 21 points to lead the Panthers. UNI is 11-6 overall and 6-3 in the conference.
ISU, Drake win, Iowa loses in men’s basketball
January 29, 2004 By
Jared Homan returned from injury for Iowa State last night and helped the Cyclones overcome a sluggish first half in a 91-82 win over Texas A@M.Homan finished with a career high 20-points, added ten rebounds and a career high seven blocked shots as the Cyclones remained unbeaten at home.Homan said on the post-game show on the Cyclone Network that they kind of had a hangover from the loss to Baylor in the first half. But he says they played better in the second half. He says the ankle loosened up early in the game and he forgot about it and played.Homan ended up playing 38-minutes which was more than he expected. He says it was the first time he’s been able to get up and down the floor like that. He says it felt great.Iowa State is now 12-4 overall, 3-2 in the Big-12. They host Kansas on Saturday.Iowa gave up a late run to Michigan in the opening half as the Wolverines took the lead for good in a 90-84 win over the Hawkeyes in Big Ten action in Ann Arbor. Pierre Pierce led Iowa with 23 points, Glen Worley chipped in with 18. Worley says they didn’t play very good defense.The Hawks host Penn State on Saturday and Worley says they need to have a better mindset on defense and need to fight a lot harder. Iowa is 3-3 in the Big Ten and 10-7 overall.Drake fell behind 15-2 at the outset but the Bulldogs rallied for a 62-57 overtime victory at Bradley, their first win in Peoria since 1993. The Bulldogs survived the rocky start and forced 28 Bradley turnovers. Drake coach Tom Davis says they kept them on the perimeter to shoot from the outside, and he says that let them stay in the game by rebounding. He says surviving the rocky start was the key to the win. Drake is 4-5 in the Valley, 8-9 overall.
Maytag CEO says upcoming labor negoitiations key
January 29, 2004 By
The appliance-making giant headquartered in Newton released its year-end financial report today. Maytag Corporation had per-share earnings of a dollar-53 for 2003, down from two-dollars-40-cents per share in 2002. Still, the company reports a two-point-seven percent increase in sales which totaled just under four-point-eight billion dollars. Maytag president and C-E-O Ralph Hake says the decreased sales and profitability of the Hoover floor care division offset respective sales increases of two-point-six percent and three-point-eight percent in the home appliance and commercial appliance segment. Hake says the closure of Maytag’s Galesburg, Illinois, refrigeration plant is on schedule for late this year.Hake says Maytag will negotiate two significant labor contracts this year, the Newton laundry contract in June and the Amana contract in September. He says they’ll be examining, especially in Newton, how to make the plants more cost effective and competitive so that they can become eligible for new platforms for new products that preserve jobs.Hake expects earnings in 2004 to be in the range of a dollar-90 to two-dollars per share.
Man gets drunk, lost, calls cops
January 29, 2004 By
A man with the last name “Beers” apparently had several too many last night, got behind the wheel drunk and crashed into a ditch, disoriented and stranded somewhere in rural central Iowa. Captain Gary Foster, of the Story County Sheriff’s Department picks up the man’s story.A cellular phone call came into the 911 dispatch about 3:41 this morning. The man said he’d gone into the ditch, he was very intoxicated and had no idea where he was or what was around him. To make matters worse, the car wouldn’t start. Captain Foster says 31-year-old Michael Beers was intending to head to his home in West Des Moines from a bar in Des Moines but was so drunk, he got lost. Very lost. He was found in the ditch about four hours later near Roland, some 40 miles north of Des Moines. Foster describes Beers’ condition when he was located.”Very cold.” The property owners spotted the car in the ditch, got Beers inside and warmed him up. Beers was taken to a hospital for a check-up. It’s still to be determined what charges he may face.
Harkin still not counting out Dean
January 29, 2004 By
The Democrat presidential candidate backed by Iowa Senator Tom Harkin placed third in Iowa’s caucuses and second in New Hampshire’s primary, but Harkin says former Vermont Governor Howard Dean’s campaign will most certainly carry on. Harkin says “Less than two percent of the delegates to the convention have been chosen. If this were a hundred-yard dash, they wouldn’t even be off the starting blocks yet. They might’ve lifted one foot. So, you can’t hardly say what’s gonna’ happen.” Harkin says fellow Senator John Kerry, of Massachusetts, has had a great start, but there’s no guarantee he’ll win the nomination.Harkin says Kerry has not had the “kind of scrutiny Mr. Dean has had” for the past year, which Harkin expects will now begin with Kerry’s first-place Iowa and New Hampshire finishes. Harkin sounded almost reminiscent of Dean’s now-infamous caucus night speech as Harkin listed off states where he believes Dean will post a good showing.Harkin says he doubts Kerry would chose North Carolina Senator John Edwards as a vice presidential running mate, should Kerry win the nomination. He notes no U.S. Senator has ever defeated a sitting president.
Missing New Hampton man’s body found in pond
January 29, 2004 By
Authorities have found the body of a man who wandered away from his rural northeast Iowa home on Sunday. Divers discovered Ted Leichtman’s body in a farm pond about a quarter-mile from his home yesterday afternoon. Officials searched the pond after spotting cracks in the ice. The 54-year-old New Hampton man hadn’t been seen since Sunday when his wife reported him missing. Sheriff’s deputies say Leichtman suffered a head injury in a fall last week and may have been confused and disoriented when he left his house. Hundreds of people searching for Leichtman spent three days in sub-zero weather combing fields and woods in Chickasaw County.
New computer virus worms its way into e-mail
January 29, 2004 By
A new computer “worm” is being described by some as the fastest-spreading virus ever, and an Iowa expert says one of every twelve e-mails on the internet contains the malignant program. Jeff Gullion is a computer instructor at Des Moines Area Community College, which had a near-miss with the virus in its own computers.Monday afternoon DMACC’s information technology department detected it, and set up the network’s firewalls to keep it out. Gullion says it’s called MyDoom and it tries to take over computers and use them to send a barrage of messages. He says it has a program that makes it hard to track and hard to fight, one of the worst since people have been tracking viruses. Gullion has advice for computer owners who hope to evade the latest virus. Watch out for attachments to an e-mail from strangers, or even from a friend who seems to be sending a file with a title that doesn’t make sense, a clue that their computer’s infected and sending the virus out. The best thing people can do is not open e-mail unless it’s from someone you know and trust, and has a personalized message in the e-mail. It’s a good time to get an antivirus program if your computer doesn’t have one, or to update your program as the software companies are making a “patch” to fight the new worm.
