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The daughter of Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar, 20-year-old Anoushka Shankar
won accolades for her skill and understanding of this traditional Indian instrumer
Anoushka has been studying and playing with her father since age nine and has
blossoming solo career of her own.
A collaboration of RAAG and the Lied Center.
Wednesday, September 27, 2000
7:30pm
RAAG
Classical Music & Culture
of India
www.raagonline.org
Lied Center for Performing Arts
Lincoln, Nebraska
Tickets: (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231
Box Office: 11:00am - 5:30pm M-F
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Practice players
sacrifice for team
PRACTICE from page 12
the game. It helps NU operate at
its best on Saturdays by spend
ing its time taking licks against
the top units, simulating the
opposition’s playbook.
A three-ring binder, loaded
with formations, sets and plays
of that Saturday’s opponent, are
handed out to scout team
members that they will run in
practice all week.
The players get knocked
around and take more than
their fair share of the lumps
running those plays.
But it’s not done in vain,
Lindstrom said. A lot of the suc
cesses the Blackshirts have on
Saturdays can be traced back to
the scout team practice fields.
“When I watch the defense
play,” Lindstrom said, “and they
do well, it reflects good onus."
Lindstrom points out the
defensive performance in
Nebraska’s 27-21 victory over
Notre Dame. The defense gave
up just one touchdown and
held strong in overtime, forcing
ND into a field goal after they
were inside the 10-yard line.
Matt Albertson, a third-year
sophomore who has spent time
on the scout team, said the
scrubs take a lot of pride when
the defense looks good. That
was especially the case with last
year’s Blackshirts, Albertson
said.
“Our defense was outstand
ing last year,” said Albertson,
who plays running back. “We
were probably the best in the
nation. I think we contributed a
lot to that."
Should that defense be
shoddy or be at fault for the loss
of a game, Lindstrom said he
takes it personally.
“Any time we get scored on
or if we were to lose, it makes
me feel somewhat responsible
even though it might not be my
fault,” Lindstrom said.
That responsibility of the
scout team - doing everything
they can to prepare the Huskers
for success, especially coupled
with the price they pay - draws
admiration from the players
working against them.
“Oh man,” said fullback
Judd Davies, who spent a week
running Tennessee plays on the
scout team before last year’s
Fiesta Bowl. “I’ve got a lot of
respect for them.
“A lot of people talk about
that making you a man in foot
ball terms. It makes you tough.
If you don’t quit after being on
the scout team, you’re going to
be a tough man.”
Lindstrom agreed, and had
the dressings, ice packs and
bandages to prove it.
"You get blown up all the
time. That’s why 1 have all
these,” he said, pointing to
numerous wraps that decorate
his battle-scarred body.
Players such as Alberston
and Lindstrom, as well as the
rest of the players who prep the
starting units for game day, are
crucial, Solich said.
“Without guys that are will
ing to play that role, you just
can’t practice the way we prac
tice,” he said. “We understand
that and appreciate the scout
team players for that.”
Lindstrom, who has had his
father and two uncles play in
the NU program, said the prac
tice players know they are
appreciated. Plaques are even
given out to the scout team
offensive and defensive player
of the-week.
But sometimes you can’t be
handed respect with a plaque,
Lindstrom said. It can be
earned by standing up to the
guys who knock you down.
“Sometimes we get in fights
out there,” Lindstrom said.
“And I think you gain more
respect by fighting back. They
respect you for it because you
don’t put up with any of their
crap.
If they push you and you
don’t like it? Push back. Besides,
if we get in a fight with them,
they’re the ones who run.”
The scout team players use
their time to hone their skills,
hoping they’ll eventually be
stepping on Tom Osborne Field
on game day.
“You work on your own
game a lot,” Albertson said.
"Like I run the ball a lot, get a lot
of touches on the ball almost
every play. Whereas on first or
second team, they’re in there
rotating.
"It’s a stage of development
for most people.”
The scout-team members
develop their skills while help
ing the starters develop their A
game for the weekend. Then
those scout-teamers often
develop into the players on
Saturdays, contributing to the
overall success of the program.
The scout team is, in a
sense, one of the legs on a
three-legged stool. Take it away,
and the chair falls over.
"What they have given this
program is immeasurable,”
Solich said. “And we recognize
that whatever success we have
is because of every single player
in this program.
“Everyone contributes to
that success.”
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Richard
rides, hits
books
BMXfrom page 12
was in Lincoln, studying and
taking tests he couldn’t get out
of.
But when Richard does
make it to some competitions,
he does a pretty good job.
In 1998, as an amateur,
Richard won the American
Bicycle Association World
Championships BMX and in
July, Richard took fifth place in
the ABA World Championships
as a pro.
Richard turned pro at 21
and took two years off of school
to live in California and com
pete fulltime.
After claiming the world
championship title, Richard
was struck down by a plethora
of injuries.
He broke his femur, his
tibula and tore his ACL, which
sent him back to Nebraska and
back to school, he said.
He plans on graduating in
May and then will move to
California and compete full
time.
Next year’s schedule fea
tures a stop on ESPN’s XGames,
among other competitions, he
said, t .
"I’m really excited for that,”
he said.
Richard estimates he has
about six years of racing left in
him.
Then he said he hopes to
take over as head of marketing
at Alliant Bicycles, his main
sponsor.
Despite his success and
notoriety on the West Coast,
Richard said he has a hard time
gaining respect for what he
does.
“They think I’m like a little
kid, still riding a bike," he said.
Others show confusion
when Richard explains his
career.
“I tell people that I race, and
the first thought they get in
their head is that I’m in the Tour
de France,” he said.
But there are some perks
that come with the racing
lifestyle as well.
Richard’s fan base includes
an entourage of strippers who
support him in the pit during
his races.
But their presence is more
for stirring up controversy than
anything else, he said.
“We’re known for having
ladies around, and yeah, they
happen to be strippers,” he
said.
J.P. Fellin, also a Nebraska
native, was Richard’s former
roommate and also a profes
sional BMX racer.
He and Richard have been
to 45 states together, racing and
traveling, Fellin said.
Fellin acknowledged the
difficulty of Richard’s balancing
act of school and racing.
“It’s hard on you,” he said.
But traveling across the
country and meeting many
people has had a positive effect
on Richard, Fellin said.
“Racing has made him the
nice guy he is,” he said.
Fellin said he foresees a
long future of racing for him
and Richard.
“I hope we’ll be 70 years old,
covered in tattoos and racing
each other in wheelchairs at the
hospital,” he said.
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