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Dadamo, Krajicek bring home first men’s doubles national championship

Seniors Austin Krajicek and Jeff Dadamo captured the NCAA Doubles Championship against Stanford on Memorial Day.

The victory marked the first ever Texas A&M national championship in tennis, as Krajicek and Dadamo defeated the Stanford doubles team of Bradley Klahn and Ryan Thacher, 7-6(4), 6-3.

“We played well today,” Krajicek said. “I think we had a good tourna-ment all week. We served well and were aggressive with our volleys. We were pretty familiar with Stanford since we faced them in the team match a little over a week ago. We knew there were going to be a lot of people out and they would be loud. We just focused on our game and didn’t let it affect us that much. It’s fun playing in that kind of atmosphere when it’s re-ally loud. It makes the match more ex-citing and I think Jeff and I enjoyed it.”

Stanford went up 2-1 early in the first set, but the Aggies came right back after breaking Stanford’s serve to tie the match up at 3-3. The first set came down to a tiebreaker when the Aggies took control of the match with clutch shots and won the set 7-6.

“There was a point in the tiebreaker that could have gone the other way and Jeff (Dadamo) hit a great backhand shot for a winner to give the boys a little separation,” Aggie head coach Steve Denton said. “That was a great shot.”

The momentum from the intense

first set carried over, and the Aggies charged to a 3-1 lead. Stanford kept the serve to close the second set gap to 4-3 before Krajicek served to take command of the match and moved ahead 5-3.

In the championship deciding game, the Aggies found themselves down 40-15 before forcing the game back to deuce. After fighting off a Stanford ad-vantage, A&M took the advantage and then a strong forehand winner by Dada-mo won the national championship.

“We’ve had several breaks where we have been down and bounced back,” Dadamo said. “It seems this year some of the guys let up a bit and Austin and I would just keep fighting back. We had a lot of fun and we were prepared to play well today.”

As the most lucrative tennis duo in school history, Krajicek and Dadamo finished their careers with an impressive 27-3 record this spring and earned sec-ond consecutive All-America honors.

Krajicek leaves as the all-time Ag-gie leader in doubles victories with 112 wins, and Dadamo walks away as the 2011 Most Outstanding Player.

“I thought it was appropriate that the final shot was a forehand winner from Jeff,” Denton explained. “These guys will always be Aggies, but in their final appearance on the collegiate ten-nis courts representing Texas A&M to come out winning the national cham-pionship, I could not be more proud of them. They have always been winners, but now they can say they are national champs.”

Aggies ace the competition

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Texas A&M men’s basketball is preparing for the future as it added a new member to the franchise. Glynn Cyprien has been named the new associate head coach.

A&M Head Coach Billy Kennedy added a key piece to the championship contending puzzle by naming Cyprien to his staff. Kennedy believes Cyprien, a former Memphis assistant, brings knowledge and camaraderie to fit his plans of building upon A&M’s six-year streak of NCAA tournament appearances.

“I’m excited to bring Cyp on board here at A&M,” Kennedy said. “First and foremost, he’s a great friend. He knows this league, he knows Texas, and he’s an excellent basketball

coach that will develop the kids to where I want them to be. So to have someone like that join me, with the experience he has and the relationship we have, is tremendous.”

Cyprien, a New Orleans native, is known as a leading recruiter after accumulating many top recruiting classes in his 23 years as a coach. His recruiting classes have led to 15 winning sea-sons and 15 postseason appearances. Cyprien has pieced together many of the best recruiting classes in recent years, including the No. 1 class in 2009 at the University of Memphis.

Cyprien has been putting together winning teams his entire career. Before fitting Memphis with players that led to 49 wins and conference titles, Cyprien also helped build winning teams at the University of Kentucky and the Univer-

sity of Arkansas. Kentucky made an appearance in both the

NCAA Tournament and NIT in Cyprien’s two years there and Arkansas also made the big dance in Cyprien’s only year there.

Prior to piecing together recruits for SEC powerhouses, Cyprien helped turn around New Mexico State from a record of 6-24 in 2005 to 16-14 in his only year there in 2006.

Cyprien’s longest tenure was from 2000-2004 as an assistant under the legendary Ed-die Sutton at Oklahoma State. In his four years there, the Cowboys made the NCAA tour-nament each year and had a record of 97-32. Cyprien’s last year in Stillwater was historic for OSU when the Cowboys went 31-4 and ad-vanced to the Final Four.

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A&M makes top 50 most amazing campuses

Aggies are known for having a natural appre-ciation of their campus but now have the style and grace to contend with America’s most beauti-ful universities. Texas A&M was ranked the 44th Most Amazing Campus in America by www.the-bestcolleges.org.

A&M beat out other universities known for their beauty including the University of Colora-do-Boulder and Northwestern University in Chi-cago. A&M is now within the same ranking as Rice, Duke and Cornell universities. Rice is the only other Texas universitiy listed in the ranking. Even with all the construction on campus, A&M made it into the top 50. With such a high ranking it can only be expected to go up when all the ren-novations around campus are completed.

The campus has come a long way in terms of style. Many of the old buildings have or are cur-rently being modernized to today’s standards, mak-ing the campus more appealing aesthetically. Even Military Walk, which had remained virtually un-changed since it was made, was completely redone.

The website reports that students who gradu-ate from beautiful campuses typically report higher overall satisfaction with their college experience. The organization’s goal is to explain to students the importance of the environment in which they choose to obtain a college degree.

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European E. coli outbreak stuns experts

The food borne bacterial outbreak that has hit Germany and other European nations is unlike anything Western experts have seen: 16 dead and more than 1,000 sick, including nearly 400 suffering severe and potentially fa-tal symptoms. But several days into the health threat, scientists remain unsure what produce — and what country — is responsible.

Investigators across Europe were frantically trying to determine the scope of the contami-nation by an unusual strain of the common E. coli germ — and where in the long journey from farm to grocery store the contamination occurred. German authorities pointed to a few cucumbers from Spain, but further tests showed that those vegetables, while contami-nated, did not cause the outbreak.

In Germany, where the vast majority of deaths and severe illnesses have been reported, officials said that investigations including in-terviews with patients have shown that people were likely infected by eating raw cucumbers, tomatoes or lettuce. They are warning con-sumers to avoid those vegetables, and Russia went so far as to ban imports of those veg-etables from Spain or Germany.

In its most severe form, the infection can attack the kidneys, sometimes causing seizures, strokes and comas.

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There have been several high-profile food-borne outbreaks in the U.S. in recent years, but none with such a high death toll. There’s little precedent in Europe, either. In 1996, an E. coli outbreak in the United Kingdom caused 216 cases and 11 deaths.

The CDC said two cases from the lat-est outbreak have been reported in the U.S., and that both people had recently traveled to Hamburg, Germany, where many of the infections occurred. The agency did not say what states the two people are in, but said it was working with state health departments to learn more about the cases and identify others.

The World Health Organization said 86 percent of those sickened were adults, and two-thirds were women. It said it was unusual that more children weren’t affected.

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With production on the trilogy-closing third installment staring up, Warner Broth-ers kicked-off its online viral campaign May 20 when thedarknightrises.com went live. Participants found only a solid black page along with an audio clip of a group chanting “The Fire Rises!” in the background.

With each twitter post containing the hashtag “#thefirerises,” the empty page slowly filled in with a collage of twitter profile im-ages before revealing actor Tom Hardy as the scarred and mysterious villain, Bane.

While highly secretive on the plot, The Dark Knight Rises features a red carpet list of stars with Christopher Nolan returning to the director’s chair in the wake of his record-breaking films, The Dark Knight and Inception.

Nolan, who has helmed the franchise since the 2005 release of Batman Begins, tends to play coy when it comes to details, but the director shared that this will be his last go-around with the caped crusader.

“The key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story,” Nolan told the L.A. Times. “And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon all over again.”

Hardy joins fellow Inception star Joseph Gordon-Levitt as part of a cast that includes Christian Bale returning as Batman along with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary

Oldman who are set to reprise their roles. And all of them are sworn to secrecy. “To get in the production office, you have

someone meet you and then there’s keys in various doors that lock,” Oldman told Abso-lute Radio. “The script you must read in the production office, and there’s no ending to the script either, because Chris tells you the ending, so it doesn’t leak and get out.”

Bale has said this will likely be his last time to don the cape and cowl.

“I always assumed it would be three, but I could be wrong. I don’t know if there’s something wrong with me, but I don’t feel any pressure,” Bale said.

Batman cinematographer Wally Pfister plans to expand the use of IMAX technol-ogy, a method of filmmaking The Dark Knight pioneered in live action movies.

“Our goal is to shoot as much in IMAX as we can. We’re going to put in on the screen, and put it on the screen big. And I really encourage everyone to see it in IMAX if they can because we’re really going for it this time. The opening scene of the movie will blow your mind.”

Still waiting to be revealed is Anne Ha-thaway as Catwoman, one of Batman’s most iconic villains and potential love interests.

According to batman-on-film.com, The Dark Knight Rises is budgeted at $250 million and will film across the globe in areas such as India, London, New York and Los Angeles.

Slated for a summer 2012 release, the first teaser trailer is expected to play in front of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 this July.

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‘Hangover’ laughs all the way to the bank

The Hangover Part II set a new high for comedy debuts with $105.8 million over the Memorial Day weekend, ac-cording to studio estimates Sunday.

The blockbuster sequel also led Hollywood to a new rev-enue record of around $280 million for the holiday week-end, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

That surpassed the previous record of $254.6 million in 2007. But factoring in today’s higher admission prices, more

tickets were sold over the Me-morial Day holiday that year than this past weekend.

The Hangover Part II raised its domestic haul to $137.4 million since opening Thurs-day, nearly half the business the 2009 original movie did over its entire run.

Opening at No. 2 behind The Hangover Part II was an-other sequel, DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2, with $62.2 million.

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