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Drohan's balanced attack leads Northwestern

By Graham Hays
ESPN.com

Thursday, April 27, 2006

It takes a certain hardiness of spirit to heed the alarm clock's wail on a January morning and trudge through the bitter cold, a wicked wind whipping snow with more action on it than anything Cat Osterman throws, just to lift weights and take hacks in a batting cage. That's before the day really picks up steam, with lectures on exciting topics like America's meat-packing industry in the early 20th century. It takes an even hardier spirit to do all of that when you could be waking up somewhere ...

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