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Student named torchbearer for volunteer work Joe Wade Daily Nebraskan Originating in ancient Greece, the Olympic Games symbolize and celebrate the most physically capable members of the human race. This summer people from around the world will gather in London to participate in the Summer Olympic Games. As a symbol of the start of the event, which will be held from July 27 through Aug. 12, the Olympic flame is carried from Greece to London. The numerous individuals who bear the torch are already on their way.

Each torch carrier has been awarded the honor because of their meritorious efforts in their respective communities.

One such individual is the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s own Sarah Lambert, who began her journey at age 14 with a big dream.

“My goals in life have always been to make a difference and follow my heart,” said the sophomore journalism major. “Wherever my heart is, that is where lies my goals; I want to write a book, taste different cultures and be entirely happy with my life, knowing that I have touched other people’s lives.”

She was selected because of her ambitions as a community servant and her endeavors have included sending handmade dolls as presents to the children in Iraq and the building of an environmental center in her hometown of Lubbock, Texas.

While Lambert has been given back to her community in many ways, she is being honored for building the Lorax Lodge, named after the character in the Dr. Seuss book “The Lorax.”

“I built an environmental center that is used as an environmental education center for children,” she said. “I raised over $225,000 for it and spent three years of my

life building it, starting at 14; that is why I was picked for my environmental awareness.”

The project consisted of more than 2,000 volunteers and 16 states which helped in the building process. For more information on the Lorax Lodge visit: visionisgreen.wordpress.com.

To those closest to her though, she is like everybody else.

“Sarah is an ordinary 19-year-old that has dreams like every other 19-year-old,” said Maureen Lambert, her mother. “The difference: She has the ability to make the dreams come true. It has always been difficult to tell Sarah ‘no.’ If we did, she would retreat to her room and come out later with a master plan on how and why her ideas will work. Thus, we didn’t tell her ‘no’ but encouraged her to follow her dreams.”

On July 9 as torchbearer 43 in Bletchley, England, she carried the Olympic flame for 300 meters, which is less than one-quarter of a mile.

She trained for her role by running and lifting weights.

Despite her anxiety about the experience, Lambert said she tried to counter it with good humor.

“How do I feel about running the Olympic flame?”

Sarah Lambert said. “To be honest, I am freaking out.

I was voted most accident prone in high school and I am just nervous and jittery all over because I get to hold, as legend says, a symbol of the gods. They light the flame using a mirror and the sun to symbolize Heaven’s fire to bring peace and unity to the world. That is some pretty heavy stuff, and I was nominated for it.”

Although Lambert was in England to run the torch, she also took some time to explore the country.

“I will be there for four

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Last week construction workers demolished the former Mills Squeegee located at 17th and Vine. The convenience store shut down in late 2011 after 15 years of operation.

Student starts gameday rental business Staff Report Daily Nebraskan Finding a ticket to a sold-out Husker football game can be difficult, and sometimes finding a place to stay after the game is just as impossible.

Lincoln Football Rentals, a new company run by University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, is looking to change that with the click of a button.

Lincoln Football Rentals connects Lincoln homeowners with Husker fans looking to stay in a house instead of a hotel. Sierra Allen is a UNL junior marketing major and Lincoln Football Rentals’ director of marketing. She, along with the help of parent company Rent Like a Champion, which caters to Notre Dame football

fans, launched lincolnfootballrentals.com last month.

“Especially for bigger games, it can be nearly impossible to find a hotel room,” Allen said.

“Those rooms can cost $200 or $300 a night. Plus, it can more comfortable to stay in a house.”

Homes are rented out from Friday afternoon to Sunday.

Homeowners are allowed to set their own prices, though Allen said most homes cost about $2,000 per weekend. Lincoln Football Rentals keeps 15 percent of the income from each rental, which means renters make on average $1,750 per weekend, she said.

“This model has been successful in other places around the country,” Allen said. “We felt it was time to offer this service to Husker fans.”

Two homes are listed online

at lincolnfootballrentals.com and she said two more will be added in the next week. Rent Like a Champion, which has been around since 2006, has more than 40 homes listed on its website, rentlikeachampion. com, and has expanded to include other events, including graduation, freshman orientation weekend and a nationwide baton twirling competition held on the Notre Dame campus. Allen said she hopes to include similar events once Lincoln Football Rentals gains more traction.

There are other home rental websites that cater to Husker gameday — a commonly used one is gamedayhousing.com — and students rent out their own homes. Allen said that Lincoln Football Rentals is safe and affordable for both the renter and

the homeowner, guaranteed.

Allen said she has done most renter recruitment through Husker alumni groups.

“We aren’t looking to create party houses,” she said. “We are looking for alumni and their families, who will leave the house the way they found it.”

All renters are required to pay a $1,000 security deposit.

Allen added that Lincoln Football Rental’s parent company — Notre Dame’s Rent Like a Champion — has never had any major issues with damage to homes.

The company also recruits homes and their owners, and someone from Lincoln Football Rentals visits each house before it can be listed online.

“We only list homes that we

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Multiple plots distract from humor in newest Allen film Tom Helberg Daily Nebraskan

As the familiar white type on black opening titles begin, you know you’re in for a Woody Allen picture.

“To Rome With Love” blends four different stories into one film with mixed — though mostly funny — results. Continuing Allen’s European tour after “Vicky Christina Barcelona” and “Midnight in Paris,” “Rome” is an anthology of sorts set in the titular Eternal City.

In one story, Allen appears in his first screen role since “Scoop” in 2006. He plays a retired opera producer, married to Phyllis (Judy Davis) and father to Hayley (Alison Pill). In this absurdist segment, Allen discovers that his daughter’s future father-in-law (Fabio Armiliato) is a tremendously talented opera singer.

The man has a hang up about singing for an audience, but

Allen uses him for a career comeback with hilarious results.

A second story follows Roberto Benigni as an average Roman citizen who one day finds the paparazzi hounding him for interviews. What he ate for breakfast and whether he wears boxers or briefs become headline news, and Benigni enjoys being famous for being famous in this Felliniesque tale.

The least interesting of the stories is a “Three’s Company” caliber mistaken identify farce.

Penelope Cruz plays a prostitute, who poses as the wife of a young newlywed (Alessandro Tiberi), while the wife is seduced by a famous Italian actor (Antonio Albanese). While Cruz shines with the little material she has, the repetitive musical cues and predictable conclusions render this plotline flat.

Another tale finds Alec Baldwin as an architect wandering his old Roman

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days with my older brother,” Sarah said. “He is the person I chose to accompany me. We will get in to London and then will drive straight to Oxford and I am staying in Hogwarts (the castle that is used as Hogwarts in “Harry Potter”) and there is a pub there that J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis swapped notes ... to be honest, I am going to be in nerd heaven.”

Apart from time spent sightseeing with her older brother, Lambert’s itinerary is full responsibilities that accompany the honor she has been given. This isn’t the first honor she has received because of her continuous effort to improve the world around her.

“I have been doing community service work since I could breathe,” Sarah said.

“My mom has an official route on Meals on Wheels and she always took me and that was really the beginning.

I joined Girl Scouts at 5 and it continued from there.”

Using Girl Scouts as a platform to craft her dreams into reality, she soon put her first big project into action.

“When Sarah was 9 she spearheaded a project to send dolls to girls in Iraq,”

Maureen said. “It started with a letter to President Bush; it ended with pictures of the girls in Iraq holding their dolls. About 2,000 dolls were shipped into Iraq with the help of Reverend Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse.”

“I had handmade rag dolls made around the country,” Sarah added. “And then shipped (them) to the little girls in Iraq with personalized cards offering peace, prosperity and friendship from other little girls in the U.S. This was right after Sept. 11 and I was recognized by President Bush and Laura Bush.”

Of all of her projects, Sarah considers the Lorax Lodge her favorite. This project also received presidential attention.

“The environmental center because was just so big and made an impact so quickly,” she said. “So many amazing blessings came from it. I was sent to New York to go on a media campaign and I was sent to D.C. to meet President Obama. It has just been an amazing adventure and it has made a difference in the world especially in the community that I am from.”

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stomping grounds. He runs into Jesse Eisenberg, an aspiring architect himself, and Baldwin becomes a colorcommentator/conscience for this younger version of himself. Eisenberg struggles choosing between staying with his girlfriend, played by Greta Gerwig, and her sexpot best friend, Ellen Page.

Allen doesn’t break any ground here, though it’s his first anthology film since “Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask” in 1972. None of the segments in “Rome” are as inspired as anything in that film, and it’s doubtful anything could ever top Gene Wilder’s love affair with a sheep. None of the stories in “Rome” are dependent on one another and all feel as if they were randomly chosen from Allen’s idea file.

There is still plenty to like about “Rome” as Allen sneaks in his famously funny

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one-liners that date back to his days as a stand-up comic.

As per usual, much of the dialog feels autobiographical as Allen muses on his own successes and failures and that nagging fear of death. There is a also an abundance of acting talent on screen, even if the actors seemingly have little to do. Page and Eisenberg in particular were born play to roles in a Woody Allen film, and with any luck they continue to work with the prolific director.

“To Rome With Love” doesn’t have much to say, but it’s a fun, frivolous romp from one of the great American directors.

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Folk EP shines with rock stylings Nick Dahlquist Daily Nebraskan “Lions and Lambs” is the second release from Twin Cities folk-rock outfit Communist Daughter. The EP is driven by smooth vocal harmonies and an inherently intimate sound.

The album kicks off with the upbeat “Ghosts,” the heaviest track in the six-song collection. Highlighted by convicting vocal harmony and anxiously pulsing guitars, “Ghosts” displays the band’s power from the getgo. Coupled with the later track “Heart Attack,” the band’s six members display a natural knack for incorporating rock tendencies and memorable melodic material into their songwriting.

The songs “Speed of Sound,” an EP remix, slightly altered from the band’s 2010 debut album “Soundtrack To The End,” and “City Love” contribute some of the most intimate elements found in the album. The latter is an especially vulnerable ballad

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that would have Bon Iver fans cheering and begging for more. The simple nature of these songs, brewed with an elaborate musical texture is a recipe for potential.

The quirky closing track “Don’t Remember Me” provides an abrupt ending, but doesn’t detract too much from the nice flow of the album. The band succeeds in developing a fairly consistent style, while avoiding cookiecutter creations.

Overall, “Lions and Lambs” is a folk record with some clear alternative rock stylings. There’s nothing incredibly inventive here but the band has managed to tap into a sound that’s beginning to find its place in the

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Chantae McMillan qualified for the Olympics on June 30 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. This was her first Olympic trials attempt and according to her former coaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, this is a huge accomplishment.

For track and field, UNL has produced 18 women Olympic athletes with nine medalists, 23 male Olympic athletes with seven medalists, making McMillan UNL’s 42nd Olympic athlete. Last year, McMillan received her fifth All-American in track and field at UNL. She also broke her personal record and a school record in Eugene Ore. Now, one year later, she beat her personal record again for the Olympic trials.

“If she had her average long jump in the trials she would have won them, that’s significant,” said Gary Pepin, head coach of track and field at NU. McMillan is working with the coach who trained with the former No. 1 heptathlete for Team USA. She didn’t start training until the spring, so she has had to make adjustments like switch to right foot for planting with long jump, said Kris Grimes, the combined event and pole vault coach at NU. For McMillan, this past year was different, and she was able to focus on one goal and now she’s in the best shape she’s been in, he said.

Since training with the UNL track and field team in last July, McMillan had surgery on her knee because of a patella tear, which is an extremely rare injury and hard to come back from, Grimes said.

“Injuries are part of the territory,” Grimes said. “If you go out and run and throw all day, you’re going to be battling injuries.”

The most important aspect of McMillan’s road to the Olympics, according to Grimes, is that this was almost a careerending injury, but she came back in six months and not only was able to be good but be great.

Grimes recruited McMillan out of high school for long jump and triple jump and he’s worked with her throughout her time at UNL. She’s been participating in multiple events for five years now and for McMillan, that’s plenty of experience.

In the past, athletes have been crushed by the pressure that the international stage brings, but that is not one of Grime’s concerns for McMillan.

“She’ll do well if she continues to focus on what she needs to do, as long as she doesn’t get distracted by all that’s going on in London,” Grimes said.

“A track is a track, a javelin weighs 600 grams (28 ounces), a shot put weighs 4.4 kilograms (8.8 pounds). She expects to be there and she expects to do well.”

Some of the other Olympic contestants have been competing for a long time. Some will be returning to the Olympics and they have the experience it takes to win at that level.

“It would be something if she placed in the top eight,” Pepin said. “It’s still a significant accomplishment to qualify on first Olympic trial attempt.”

What’s even more notable is

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how McMillan had no competitive track experience for almost a year before the Olympic trials, Pepin said.

Both of her former coaches have expressed that McMillan will need to focus on high jump for her upcoming training as it was not her strongest event in competitions. However, they both agree she has increased tremendously in hurdles, which shows promise for improvement elsewhere.

“McMillan is incredibly mentally tough and you have to be when you get to that level,” Pepin said. “Over the last five years she has shown tremendous improvement and it’s because of her natural ability.”

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pple pie. Stars and stripes. Chinese-made uniforms?

One of these things is not like the other.

Last Friday news broke that the uniforms for Team USA were manufactured in China and not in America. The prices for the clothing were outrageous, a whopping $1,609.50 for one outfit. Not even a stylish teenager could justify that cost.

Worse yet, the Ralph Lauren logo was the same size or larger than the USA logo. It’s hard not to see this as having more pride in one’s clothing label than in one’s county.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, “I think they should be embarrassed. I think they should take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again.”

Readers, Reid isn’t wrong. Why Ralph Lauren thought it would be a good idea to manufacture these uniforms in a foreign country is difficult to say, but it was a huge oversight on the designer’s part.

The Olympics first and foremost are about celebrating one’s nationality. It isn’t about giving away American textile workers’ jobs. It isn’t about saving a few dollars by making the uniforms overseas. At the end of the day this is about pride in one’s nation and taking care of our own.

Instead, this decision is saying hurrah for outsourcing, hurrah for giving away American jobs.

Such a message isn’t appropriate during the Olympics and is especially gauche during a time of recession. Americans aren’t too good to make their own Olympic uniforms.

The Olympics is a time to celebrate all Americans and our specialness and our melting pot heritage.

Such a blunder is embarrassing and annoying. Surely we have enough pride in ourselves and our nation to make our own uniforms.

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Visit with foster family reignites connection with Korean heritage

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found out why there is a stereotype of Asians being bad drivers during a trip to South Korea this summer. As it turns out, narrow streets and speeders make for impatient drivers who narrowly avoid accidents.

But that wasn’t the only thing I discovered in Korea.

I recently spent two weeks in Seoul with a tour group organized by my adoption agency.

I met my foster mother for the first time on my second day in the city. I felt ridiculous fighting down nervousness of a woman I didn’t even remember.

She had taken care of me for a couple of months before I arrived in the United States when I was 8 months old and she was virtually a stranger to me. But I felt as though I might have a panic attack.

I worried I would somehow let her down. I felt that I wouldn’t be what she expected.

I feared that, seeing me, she

would somehow be disappointed.

I imagined all of the different ways that the visit could go horribly wrong. I expected the meeting would be awkward, that we would have nothing to talk about. I imagined she could be distant or I would somehow make a social gaffe or I would find some fresh new way to utterly humiliate myself.

When I walked into the room, I bowed, said “Hello” in Korean and handed her flowers. She immediately swept me into a hug.

I mentally sighed in relief before sitting down with the translator. My foster mother brought her daughter, who helped her raise me, and her grandson with her.

As she talked, I couldn’t take my eyes off the strong, compassionate woman who had taken care of me for six months of my life. When we exchanged gifts, I was extremely grateful that I knew how to say “thank you” in Korean. My foster family murmured their pleased surprise when I said the phrase correctly.

The sound of English and Korean occasionally quieted when ideas got lost in translation, for example, when I described my mom’s job. The flow of conversation never stopped though, as we got to know one another. Her voice soothed me as she told me about my dry skin as a baby and how she had massaged lotion into my body.

Her laugh made the smile on my face wider as she described the food she cooked each day.

My foster mother’s eyes got misty as I told her how much I appreciated her taking care of me when I was a baby. My eyes welled with tears, too. I never knew how much I wanted to say those words until they left my mouth.

It was like taking a step back in time for me. My foster mother held my hand almost the entire time. When we went to lunch together, I got a small piece of food on my face and she wiped it away.

I only got to spend two hours with them. I wish I had gotten more time to get to know them better, but I was happy to make

this important milestone in my life.

During my trip I fell in love with Seoul. It was something I had never imagined happening when I signed up for the tour. Growing up, my parents had saved up money since my first birthday to pay for my first trip to Korea. I kept putting it off, saying things like, “I’m not ready yet” whenever my mom asked me if I wanted to go.

My trip to Korea helped me realize I had missed out on getting to know my heritage when I was growing up. After the trip, I felt more at ease with myself. Meeting my foster mother helped me on this journey. If the meeting had been a disaster, it would have ruined the entire trip for me.

The trip to Korea was a cultural revolution for me and, despite the cost, the two hours I spent with my foster mother were priceless.

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CASSEROLE: MARVEL VS. DC

Fandom divide betrays universal comic camaraderie Bea Huff Daily Nebraskan

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arvel Comics or DC Comics?

This is usually one of the first questions asked of a superhero comic fan and, frankly, I don’t think it’s a very fair one.

I’ll openly admit that I’m a DC girl but that doesn’t mean that I hate Marvel. In fact, Marvel’s “Astonishing X-Men” rivals DC’s “New Frontier” for

my favorite book of all time.

Each company has traits that are unique to it. Comparing the two is like comparing apples to oranges, or Kryptonians to Asgardians for that matter.

The best description I’ve heard of the difference between the big two is the following: Marvel is men trying to be heroes while DC is heroes trying to be men.

One of the best ways to explain this would be to take a look at each company’s resident genius, billionaire and playboy philanthropist.

Marvel has Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man and DC has Bruce Wayne, also known as Batman.

Both have exorbitant amounts of money they inherited from their murdered parents and both

blow tons of cash on suits and gadgets to fight crime but that’s about where the similarities end.

While Bruce and Tony have similar public personas, are handsome, suave, intelligent and have a bit of an attitude problem, the difference is that’s Tony’s real personality, while Bruce is just pretending.

Tony is always Tony, even when he’s in the suit. He’s cocky, impulsive, kind of selfish, narcissistic and a bit of an alcoholic. Tony’s struggle is overcoming these flaws in order to be the hero.

Bruce, on the other hand, is truly Batman at heart and wears a Bruce Wayne facade. He’s a cold, calculating master detective. He’s suspicious of everyone and his mind is always on whatever case, or cases, he might be working at

the time.

This makes him a great crimefighter, but hinders his ability to have healthy interpersonal relationships. Look at the ways he interacts with any of the Robins and you will see what I mean.

Sure, Tony struggles with relationships too but, his strife comes from his personality, not his unwavering dedication to his mission like Batman.

But the rich kids aren’t the only example of these themes.

Take a look at Marvel’s XMen or Spider-Man. They are railed on by society and the media, who make them out to be villains when they really aren’t.

They struggle with doing what they know is right and good for a world that doesn’t appreciate or understand them. Sometimes they get worn down or angry

and want to quit; sometimes they make bad decisions and people get hurt but in the end, they are able to find the courage and strength to stand up for what they believe in.

They are just people with extraordinary gifts who find it in themselves to be heroes.

On the other hand, you have DC’s Superman. He’s an alien being, who is basically a god among insects. He’s incredibly smart, fast, strong and nearly invincible. He has the power to rule the world by force, yet there is some part of him that just wants to be human. He pretends to be a clumsy, bumbling newspaper reporter so that he can connect with the people he is trying to save.

These differences between Marvel and DC are general

theories and don’t apply to all characters in each universe, but they works pretty well as a generalization.

The point is, these universes are very different. Even if they have the same premise of super beings fighting other super beings in order to keep the non-supers safe. Each has merits and flaws and it’s important to recognize and appreciate these differences.

Of course you can have a favorite, but that doesn’t mean you have to go bashing the other company. Both companies have made really good and really bad books — so don’t snub something just because your preferred publisher didn’t make it.

Superheroes are cool, no matter what universe they’re from.

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Saltdogs dream of major league dugouts

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LEFT: Saltdogs infielder John Alonso swings for his first hit of the game at Haymarket Park. RIGHT TOP: A group of kids chase after a foul ball that landed in the greenspace at Haymarket Park in Lincoln. RIGHT BOTTOM: Lincoln Saltdogs mascot Homer tries to pump the crowd up with some dancing at Haymarket Park last Thursday.

Lanny Holstein Daily Nebraskan There is more to the Lincoln Saltdogs than you may think.

At first glance, the Saltdogs appear to be just another team playing baseball at Haymarket Park. They don’t receive nearly the recognition or the coverage that the Huskers do, but this team is playing better baseball than one might think.

The Saltdogs are a member of the 13-team American Association, a Midwestern independent baseball league with teams as far north as Winnipeg, Canada and as far south as

Laredo, Texas. They play in the league’s Central Division and as of July 15 the team currently sits in fifth place.

As an independent team, the Saltdogs have no major league affiliation. That doesn’t mean, however, that the players can’t be moved up to play for those organizations. In fact, that’s the goal of most independent league players.

“Just like any other job, you have to get your foot in the door somehow,” said Chris Miyake, Saltdogs manager. “It’s hard to crack the major league organizations. This league gives guys who didn’t get drafted by those teams an opportunity. The

ultimate goal for these guys is to make a major league roster.”

As players scramble to impress big league scouts, they shuffle from team to team looking for the best opportunity.

Lineup and roster changes are common for the Saltdogs.

“Right now, half the team is new from the beginning of the year,” said Ryan Sheldon, starting pitcher. “A lot of times you play with guys that you were playing against not too long ago. That’s just the way independent ball is and probably the way it always will be.”

Sheldon, owner of a 3.9 ERA and 55 strikeouts through 11 starts this season, was recently

acquired by the Saltdogs in a trade with the Normal (Ill.) CornBelters. He said he asked for the trade in order to play closer to his hometown, Kearney. He also likes the opportunity the Saltdogs give him.

“I wanted to play in Lincoln because my family can drive up to watch me play and because the Saltdogs are the only team I’ve seen that has the whole package,” he said. “Everything about the team is what you would want to be a part of, from the facilities to the organization.”

Sheldon is happy playing for the Saltdogs for now, but his aspirations are no different than the rest of the Lincoln players. He wants to

use the opportunity to springboard himself into a better spot.

“I still want to move up to an affiliated team like AA or AAA soon,” he said. “Obviously, stats play a lot into that but somebody has to like you.

Somebody has to like the way you play. I’ve had great stats my whole career but not been picked up yet.”

Independent league players often struggle to get picked up by major league organizations if they went undrafted out of high school or college. The connections aren’t there for those players and they must bounce around in leagues like the American Association hoping

to prove their worth. It can be a struggle for these players as they don’t earn much money in the independent leagues.

“Money is always an issue,” said outfielder Tommy Collaros. “You have to pick and choose where you go because you don’t want to locked get in a corner, especially as a young guy. When you move on in your career, you can negotiate a little more, but it’s still an issue.”

According to Miyake, the average salary in the American Association is about $1,300. Rookies make even less, only $800.

“They have to work in the

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Playmakers league serves up competition Maricia Guzman Daily Nebraskan

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There’s something about the Playmakers Bar & Grill sand volleyball league that keeps 220 teams coming back for 27 weeks throughout the spring and summer.

Perhaps it’s the blaring upbeat pop music, ice cold pitchers of beer and tan 20-somethings all playing sand volleyball that makes the scene at Playmakers appear to be located on some breezy beach lining the Pacific, rather than a random corner intersecting on Highway 77 and W. Van Dorn Street in Lincoln.

In fact the laid-back, beach bum party atmosphere is so illusive it makes it hard to

believe most games are played on weekday nights rather than weekends.

Roger Westerhood, the owner of Playmakers, seems to have concocted the perfect recipe for alternative summer fun, regardless of the day or location.

“We’re known for our environment,” Westerhood said.

“The people who come here each week just hang out and end up making a lot of friends by the end of the session.”

For Westerhood, who took over the bar a few years ago, expanding the volleyball league while keeping the social atmosphere was his initial goal.

Today, Westerhood has added more sand volleyball courts to accommodate an increase in teams along with seemingly endless

giveaways of drinks, cash prizes, gift cards and T-shirts.

Chavera Jackson, 24, works as a hostess during the volleyball games.

“People like to come here to relax and get to know other people,” she said. “I hear a lot of people say it’s a great way to party and to get in some physical activity.”

Jeremy Mohr, 24, has been playing in the Playmakers volleyball league for two years.

He said it’s more recreational than going downtown and it’s a great way to enjoy the beautiful weather with his friends.

While many young people participate in the league, some people also bring their families along.

“There’s no age limit for people to play,” Westerhood

said. “Some families even play together.”

While certain teams in the league are more competitive, others are very fundamental.

Westerhood said he has been hosting the league long enough that he can usually help steer people in the right direction when it comes to levels of competition so that everyone can enjoy playing.

Many people who attend the league are avid volleyball players or at least enjoy trying but there is also room for people who only want to relax and enjoy a drink. In fact, Playmakers gives away a free pitcher of beer every hour.

“Lots of people come even if they don’t like volleyball,” Mohr said. “Actually, I’m in it for the free beer.”

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Roller derby has flair off the beaten track Weston Poor Daily Nebraskan Roller derby isn’t just an act any more. For the Mad Maxines, Lincoln’s team in the No Coast Derby Girl league, it’s much more. It’s bring the former athletes back to competition and bringing the non-athlete’s to a venue to be competitive. It’s expressing individuality while upholding a sense of community and fostering creativity while creating intense rivalries. The Mad Maxines, who get their name from the 1979 Mel Gibson sci-fi flick “Mad Max,” have been in Lincoln for more than seven years now.

It started as a show, with fights and crazy costumes, said Andrea Tarnick, or as she goes on the track, Kelly RipaNipalov, captain and blocker for the Mad Maxines and the executive director of the No Coast Derby Girls.

“After a while we wanted to show people what we were real athletes,” Tarnick said. “We work hard and practice hard to be good. We train hard and represent ourselves as real athletes and it shows because we’re one of the top 40 teams in the world.”

Most roller derby teams are assembled in larger cities with larger populations to

gather players from. Being from a small town, like Lincoln, with a smaller population to recruit from, it says a lot for the team, Tarnick said.

“It shows that we work harder,” she said.

The team has created a persona of excellence since its beginning in 2005, but more than ever it’s about the culture it brings to Lincoln. Within the roller derby community, they have created a sense of personal democracy. This comes from the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association creed — for the skaters, by the skaters.

It has a “do-it-yourself” mentality where everything is done by the skaters and the team, Tarnick said. The team is

skater owned and operated.

If anything, the roller derby scene diversifies the sports world in Lincoln.

“It’s cool to have sports outside of football and basketball that are as unique as roller derby,” Tarnick said. “It’s cutting edge and intense and it means a lot to us.”

For Champ Paine, the monicker for Jennie Paine, blocker for the Mad Maxines, it’s for more personal reasons. Paine gave roller derby a chance when it began in Lincoln initially, mainly because she was allowed to express her more aggressive side. “If you can’t play nice, play roller derby,” her bio says on the No Coast Derby Girls website.

Besides the exhilarating aspect of legally laying someone

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out, Paine said the sport has taken her places all over the country she may have not visited otherwise.

“I’ve got to travel all over and meet some super awesome people,” Paine said. “One time some skate equipment was stolen from a team’s van and the community raised money to help the team pay for new equipment. That’s the kind community we get to be in.”

This Oct. 5 to the Oct. 7, the Mad Maxines will be hosting

nine other teams for the Landlocked Lace Up, a regional roller derby tournament. Ranked fourth in their region by flat track stats, the team feels it has a very good chance at winning their region and moving on to nationals, Paine said. First the team has to get through the rest of the season.

“We have a great chance to win all of our last games,” Paine said. “We just keep going up and getting better and better.”

This year nationals will be held in Atlanta. The key for the

team to find itself on the national stage is doing well together, as a team, Paine said.

“We’re working for the sixth seed or better for regionals, that will give us the best shot at nationals,” Tarnick added.

“Earlier in the season we lost a couple of blockers and we had to get our confidence back up and we did,” Paine said. “So it’s really nice building momentum going into regionals and knowing we’re good.”

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UNL club sports play on during summer Kekeli Dawes Daily Nebraskan You could say that University of Nebraska-Lincoln students are familiar with sports — they are bombarded with news about football, volleyball and basketball. UNL’s non-recognized sports seem to fly under the radar, but that doesn’t mean they — and their athletes — aren’t active.

The UNL Recreation Center offers a variety of intramural sports for students during the school year. Most of these clubs disband for summer, but a few choose to continue practicing and competing during the summer.

The UNL Women’s Rugby Club and the new Cricket Club are two such teams.

“Americans like baseball,” said Nandun Thellamurege, a graduate chemistry student and the UNL Cricket Club’s vice president. “They try to

relate cricket to baseball’s pitching and catching. I find it funny because I think baseball started later.”

Emily Tooker, a senior sociology major and the UNL Women’s Rugby Club’s vice president, says she feels the same way about Rugby.

“People always ask if it’s like soccer or football,” she said. “There are so many different rules about it. In fact, it’s the only sport that really doesn’t have any differences between the male and female version; it’s actually kind of cool.”

The Women’s Rugby Club doesn’t have any official summer matches, but they began practicing last Tuesday and will continue every Tuesday and Thursday leading up to the Cornhusker State Games, which begin June 20.

Since the Cornhusker Games aren’t an official UNL club event, club members will be playing as The Mustachers.

In the Nebraska tournament, they will play a modified 10-player match, as opposed to the usual 15. Having not met regularly as a team since the spring season’s end, the club is treating the friendly match at the Cornhusker Games like any other.

“We are all really close, so we like to hang out with each other,” Tooker said. “A couple people work out together but we just started official practice.

We meet at Lincoln Lutheran Church or around school (and) we go out somewhere in the community to practice.”

But there could be a small problem with the Cornhusker Games: the UNL squad may be the only one to sign up.

They ran into this snag last year as well.

“We aren’t sure how many other teams will be playing,” Tooker said. “Hopefully they get a couple other teams to sign up so we have other people to play, or we won’t

do anything, which would be horrible. I think what happened last year was that no other team signed up, so we just got our money back. I’m not sure if they gave us a trophy or if we were considered winners.”

However, this doesn’t mean the women’s rugby scene in Nebraska is quiet. There is a bitter rivalry between the Huskers and Wayne State College’s Women’s Rugby Team.

Wayne State narrowly beat UNL on the Warriors’ home turf this past spring.

The rugby club also took a trip to St. Louis for the Western Rugby Championships last year, where they came home with a third place trophy.

The UNL Cricket Club, though it’s barely four months old, has already won a tournament. They have summer practices and matches.

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People have competed in the Olympics for millennia, but when the Games can’t come here, Nebraska compensates.

The result: the Cornhusker State Games.

The games were originally created to promote health and offer competition for amateur athletes. The 2012 Cornhusker Games will take place July 20 through July 29 at more than 70 sites in Omaha, Kearney and Grand Island.

“I would call the State Games an Olympics for Nebraskans,” said Dave Mlnarik, executive director of the Nebraska Sports Council. “Participants of all ages and all abilities (are) competing in an actual Olympic year.”

Beginning with 19 sports in 1985, the Cornhusker State Games has since grown and now offers 60 competitions ranging from traditional Olympic sports such as swimming to games such as chess or horseshoe pitching. Anyone who wants to compete is welcome, as long as they have lived in Nebraska for 30 days.

If a non-resident lives in a state that doesn’t have a state games program or doesn’t offer their sport, then he or she can register.

Some sports, like basketball and soccer, attract upwards of 1,000 participants each. Shooting and sailing usually have the least amount of participants, Mlnarik said.

“We see few Nebraskan participants who come to sail,”

he said. “It’s still important that we offer that because it’s unique. Our goal is to include as many people as possible.”Of the few Nebraskans that take to the water, Sailing director Patrick Moran became interested in sailing when he moved from Pennsylvania to Nebraska. The sport is unique to the Cornhusker State Games because a person can participate as an individual or as a team.

It also has a factor that cannot be controlled: the weather.

Luckily for the past few years of the State Games, sailing winds have been manageable, Moran said.

Moran competed in the competition last year and said he hopes to be able to again this year. However, it can be difficult to be able to compete while also juggling the tasks of being director, he said.

Some of the competitors come to share their passion with fellow sailors and some come to win.

In 2011, there were 11,511 participants. Mlnarik said he’s looking for crowd numbers to remain steady.

Ages of participants vary widely. Last year, the youngest competitor was 5 months old and the oldest was 87 years old.

The youngest participant was given a tricycle for participation.

“We have parents sign up children that haven’t even been born yet,” Mlnarik said. “They are able to participate in the energy walk where the parent pushes them in a stroller.”

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FROM PAGE 4 community in Nebraska. The Lincoln Cricket Club (LCC) has two full squads, The Omaha Cricket club has 12 squads

and the Simply Play Cricket League has eight squads.

In the Midwest region, the UNL squad already has a

Big Ten rival waiting in Iowa State.

Though underground to some, cricket in Nebraska has

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“We have been wanting to have the club for such a long time,” said Vijay Durvasula, the cricket club’s secretary, and a graduate student in management.

“The students prior to us tried to have a club here 10 years back but the administration basically did not see the need and support for a Cricket Club because of the lack of members.”

“Due to rules and regulations on numerous things, it took three years, but I thought to give it a try one more time to gain approval,” said Naren Parimi, a graduate student in computer science and the club’s president and founder.

“We don’t have any main grounds to play on, and we don’t get any funds from the university.”

This year, Parimi started working closely with Amy Lanham, the senior assistant director of Sports Clubs at the Rec to make the UNL Cricket Club a reality. The club has locked down a sponsorship from Lincoln Technologies for gear and equipment. There are already 17 members on the squad, and more are expected to come — even students who have never played the sport before.

Durvasula hopes to see the UNL Cricket Club continue on this fast track.

“We are at the consolidation phase right now,” said Durvasula. “We are looking to pull as many players as possible. Then we will look into training those who are very interested and pull more people in the cricket club in the future, probably three or four more months down the line.”

Thellamurege, a self-proclaimed “all-around batsman,” said some members don’t even have to know how to play the sport.

“We want everybody,” he said. “Americans, English, Australians, anyone who knows the sport or wants to learn about the sport is welcome to play and have fun.”

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With all-star lineup, basketball ensures USA Olympic gold

Lanny Holstein Daily Nebraskan They may not be the dream team, but the 2012 USA Olympic basketball team is stacked nonetheless.

The latest set of all stars assembled for the games in London looks like something out of a video game. There isn’t a player on the roster that couldn’t score 30 points on a given night.

The team includes much of the NBA’s top talent: LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Love, Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook, just to name a few stars. But equally impressive is the team’s depth.

Even the lesser-known players, if you can call them that, are electric athletes as well. Deron Williams of the Nets and Tyson Chandler of the Knicks are the smallest names on the team, but each are major contributors to their teams. Williams averages 21 points per game and Chandler averages about 10 rebounds a game. These guys are no slouches.

Basketball is America’s game and it’s imperative for Team USA to win the gold at this summer’s Olympics. We invented basketball and, for the most part, we are the ones that play it. Sure, other nations have leagues and players but they aren’t like the leagues and players in America. Basketball has been embraced by this country in a way that it hasn’t been embraced in other countries, and America has to win for that reason. It’s our game.

The way Americans feel about basketball during the Olympics is similar in many ways to the way Canadians feel about hockey during the Olympics. Canada is the preeminent nation in the sport of hockey.

A high percentage of the professional talent comes from that nation, and when they put together a national team, they feel that they have to win the gold medal. Anything else is a failure.

For America, basketball is actually even more of a mustwin sport than that. Canada actually has a handful of legitimate competitors in the Olympics. America, for one, is always a threat to the Canadians on the ice, but America lacks any sort of competition when it comes to basketball.

When Team USA was knocked out of gold medal contention by Argentina in 2004, it shocked the world.

Argentina? Yes, Argentina, the South American nation, lead by Manu Ginobili, won gold over an American team busting at the seams with talent. How did that happen?

There really is no good answer to that question. It was a huge disappointment and an awakening for most Americans.

Team USA, previously thought to be invincible, lost to a team with a tiny fraction of the stars and talent of the American squad. The memory of that loss still stings and although the 2008 team got American back on top, there is still work to be done to get the bad taste out of people’s mouths.

The 2012 version of Team USA is about as good as it could possibly be. America has the consensus top two players in the world on its side in James and Durant. Fresh off their meeting in the NBA Finals, the two players should be ready to go. America also has the experience necessary to win as it returns a handful of players from its 2008 gold medalwinning roster.

When the stage is set and the lights are on in London, this team has to win. There is no excuse for them to finish with anything less than a gold medal. There isn’t a team out there that can compete with them.

Simply put, they have to get it done.

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offseason to make it work,” he said. “It is definitely not a money-making business to be sure. There are actually leagues that pay less than the American Association, but the money the players make doesn’t go a long way. These guys are not here for the paycheck.”

The Saltdogs take a bit of the financial heat off their players by setting them up with a free place to stay during the season.

The organization’s host family program matches each player up with a Lincoln family for the summer. The host families receive season tickets to Saltdogs games in exchange for providing the player’s housing.

“It’s a good situation,” Sheldon said. “I have a great host family. It’s nice to have someone that takes care of the housing for you. You can’t really hold down a stable apartment when you are on the road half the time anyway.”

Not all independent teams have a host family system. Miyake said it’s a great part of being in Lincoln.

“Players become friends with the families and keep in touch down the road. It’s really a neat

situation for everyone,” he said.

The Saltdogs are looking to get hot down the stretch. The team’s roster has been fluid throughout the season but may take a hit in a month or so. When major league clubs start looking to fill their rosters, a few Saltdogs may get their chances at moving up — great news for the players but hard on the Saltdogs.

“If they are good enough to move up then they are going to play well for you,” Miyake said.

“Selfishly, you don’t want to lose that guy, but you have to help them improve and build their career. If I get a call from a club, I have to give them an honest report or a good report so they can reach their goal and move up.”

The players chosen by big league clubs will most likely play at the AA level. They don’t miss a beat moving up. The level of play at Haymarket Park has the best Saltdogs hitters and pitchers ready for the jump.

“We are very competitive,” Miyake said. “I’d say we are very close to AA. It’s at least high A if not AA. It just depends on the pitcher throwing that night.

These are competitive games.”

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current top four nfl quarterbacks

Rodgers’ proven precision, Brady essential to passing game set him apart team’s overall success Lanny Holstein Daily Nebraskan The NFL recently polled its players, asking them who they think is currently the best player in the league. It was a poll by the players and for the players.

Aaron Rodgers won out. He was followed by Drew Brees, Calvin Johnson, Tom Brady and Darrelle Revis.

So the players think Rodgers is the best overall player in the NFL. I have to agree. There is no arguing with the success he has achieved to this point over the span of his career in Green Bay. The guy won Super Bowl XLV, was named MVP of the NFL in 2011 and broke the single-season quarterback rating record (122.5) in his four seasons as the Packers starter.

Rodgers’ resume is stacked. He has done an incredible amount of damage in his young career, but there are still other contenders for the title “best NFL player,” or even “best NFL quarterback.”

Comparing players of different positions is extremely difficult, so let’s keep it simple and narrow Rodgers’ competition to other quarterbacks.

There are a handful of them worthy of consideration. Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Tom

Brady all come to mind. Each of these players has a track record of greatness and is playing at a high level right now (with the exception of the injured Manning), so let’s break it all down.

Manning is an interesting guy to put in the running right now.

Coming off a serious neck injury that kept him off the field for all of 2011 and a trade that leaves him in a new offense, his situation is the most unstable of the four guys mentioned. For that reason, he comes in at No. 4 on my 2012 list of top quarterbacks.

There is no question Manning ranks highly on an alltime QB list. He has thrown for more than 54,000 yards and 399 touchdowns. The offenses he commanded in Indianapolis were an incredible display of precision and dissection. Manning, the focal point and for the most part, the play-caller in that system is probably the smartest player in the NFL. He doesn’t have the numbers or the stability over the last few seasons, though, to put himself ahead of the other guys in terms of current value.

Brees takes the No. 3 spot.

The Saints not only have a great leader in Brees, they have a great weapon as well. Numerically, he is the best quarterback in the NFL over the last two seasons. In that span, he has more than 10,000 passing yards and 79 touchdown passes. Nobody else can compare with that. The problem for Brees and it’s a problem only a few guys have ever solved, is that his team isn’t going deep

enough into the playoffs. He was able to win the Super Bowl in 2009, only three seasons ago, but the last two years have ended in disappointment for New Orleans and Brees.

Brady, my No. 2 man behind the center, lead his team to the Super Bowl last season before losing to the Giants in that game. He is a legitimate threat to take Rodgers spot at No. 1 because of his long history of success and incredible numbers. If this were an all-time list, he and Manning would be the leaders by a wide margin over the other two guys mentioned. Brady leads an offense lacking in star power. He single-handedly made all-stars out of his two tight ends and continues to throw most of his passes to a 5-foot, 9-inch Wes Welker. He makes the most out of a team lacking in explosive weaponry.

The reason Rodgers is better than Brady right now is his ridiculous consistency. Not that Brady isn’t consistent; he is.

Rodgers is just more consistent.

Rodgers didn’t have a game last season in which he threw for less than 235 yards and he threw for at least two touchdowns in all but one game.

Rodgers refuses to be shut down. Packer opponents know he will be throwing on most downs (the Packers were third in the league in passing yardage in 2011), but they are still unable to do anything about it.

All four of these quarterbacks are amazing players but Rodgers, as of today, stands slightly ahead of the rest. lannyholstein@dailynebraskan.com

Bryan Colbert Daily Nebraskan Ask anyone who the best quarterback in the NFL is, and you are bound to get a different answer almost any time.

But how do you not rank a 3-time Super Bowl champ, 2-time super bowl MVP, 2-time NFL MVP, and 7 time Pro-Bowler as the NFL’s best?

In 2011, Brady completed more than 65 percent of his passes and threw for more 5,200 yards and 39 touchdowns.

Now, these numbers don’t compare to the amazing statistics that Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees put up in their 2011 season, but it’s not all about the numbers.

Quarterback is the most important position on the field to a team, and if you think of a player who is by far the most important asset to his team you have to go with Brady.

In 2011, Brady led the Patriots to the Super Bowl with a no-run game and an abysmal defense.

Brady also has considerably less weapons then Rodgers.

“Well what about Wes Welker and Deon Branch?”

We all saw what happened to Branch when he left Brady and the Patriots and went to Seattle.

His career plummeted from Super Bowl MVP to an afterthought.

Brady is also one of the few quarterbacks in the NFL that had short wide receivers, all less than 6-feet tall. (We aren’t going to mention Ochocinco).

Brady is not only an outstanding player,

but also makes players around him better, which is the sign of a true leader.

Rodgers gets the ranking of the leagues second best quarterback.

Rodgers led the league in quarterback rating, which measures the overall play of every quarterback, throwing 45 touchdowns and only six interceptions in the 2011 season.

Rodgers stepped in to the Packers system, once ran by Hall-of-Famer Brett Favre, and didn’t disappoint.

He has led the Packers to a Super Bowl and has made them consistent championship contenders since being named the starter.

There is no ceiling to Rodgers’ potential and I expect him to be a top Quarterback until he retires.

Drew Brees put up career numbers in his 2011 season, leading the league in passing yards, touchdowns, and completion percentage.

The only reason that Brees isn’t higher on the list is because Brady and Rodgers have led their teams to more wins consistently.

Brees is still arguably one of the best and maybe one more season like 2011 will put him at the top.

Although Peyton Manning didn’t play in 2011 and is coming back from what some thought would be a career-ending injury, he still proved to be a valid asset to the Indianapolis Colts without having to take a snap.

The Colts went from one of the top teams in the AFC to being the league’s worst.

For a team to have such a steep decline in performance because of losing just one player proved Manning’s value.

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