FROM UI SPORTS INFORMATION: IOWA CITY, Iowa — Four members of the University of Iowa football team have been named to Athlon Sports’ Preseason All-Big Ten teams. WR Jordon Cotton (first team/kick return specialist), LB James Morris (second team/defense), PK Mike Meyer (second team/kicker) and OL Brandon Scherff (third team/offense) each earned preseason accolades from [...]
FROM UI SPORTS INFORMATION: IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa senior linebackers Christian Kirksey and James Morris have been named to the 2013 College Football Performance Awards Defensive Watch List, the CFPA announced Monday. Kirksey and Morris each earned spots on the 2013 CFPA Linebacker Trophy Watch List. Iowa is one of four programs [...]
We interrupt the fading days of spring with a question to ponder between now and the time footballs take flight … When was the last time Iowa played a bigger season-opener in helmets and shoulder pads than the one parked on Aug. 31 against Northern Illinois? And when did a season-starter with that much on [...]
The Iowa football team received a verbal commitment today from defensive back Jyaz Jones, according to Rivals.com. Jones, a 6-foot, 172-pound safety from Dallas, Texas, is listed as a two-star prospect by Rivals. He chose the Hawkeyes over Nebraska, Baylor, and Texas Tech. As a high school junior, Jones made 53 tackles, five sacks and [...]
http://bcove.me/7ew62783 Chris Doyle in many ways is similar to his boss for the past 14 years. Once the toast of the Iowa football program, Doyle’s legacy as the team’s strength and conditioning coach now is being tested. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz faces the same predicament with the Hawkeyes trying to bounce back from a [...]
IOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa linebacker Dalton Shaull was in stable condition Friday after his scooter ran into the back of another vehicle. Iowa City police Sgt. Brian Krei says Shaull was on a highway near the edge of Iowa City on Thursday afternoon when he rear-ended another vehicle. The university says in a statement [...]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Former Oklahoma State starting quarterback Wes Lunt will return to his home state and transfer to Illinois, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized by Lunt to discuss the decision. Lunt is from Rochester, [...]
http://bcove.me/pyymwb6u The University of Iowa athletics department reported 14 minor NCAA and Big Ten Conference violations — many of them accidental calls or text messages — between August 2012 and May 2013, according to documents provided by the university through a public records request. The documents outline so-called secondary infractions that coaches made while attempting [...]
James Harrington left Cedar Falls for national track power Alabama a year ago. Now he’s coming home. James Harrington, shown here competing at the Drake Relays, said he plans to transfer from Alabama to Iowa. Harrington, the Des Moines Register male high school athlete of the year in 2012, has announced he will run for [...]
Prime Time League coach Ron Nove has had Aaron White the past two summers, so when he pulled out the No. 1 pick on Sunday, his decision was easy.
Iowa guard Mike Gesell did something this spring that he’s never done before when it comes to basketball.
FROM UI SPORTS INFORMATION: IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa senior Roy Devyn Marble and junior Aaron White are two of 30 of the nation’s top collegians that will attend the 2013 USA Basketball Men’s World University Games Team Training Camp. The training camp, which will be held June 24-30 at the U.S. Olympic [...]
The search for a volunteer assistant to oversee the upperweights on his roster led Iowa coach Tom Brands across state borders, rivalry lines and to the program that monopolized the college wrestling’s biggest weight class throughout the past decade. Ben Berhow, a three-time heavyweight NCAA qualifier for Minnesota, said late Monday night that he will [...]
http://bcove.me/s29bpw05 Copyright, 2013 Register and Tribune Company The NCAA wrestling committee is proposing groundbreaking change to its championship format, the Des Moines Register has learned. A model presented Tuesday to the NCAA’s Division-I sports management cabinet, if approved, would fuse the individual tournament and dual-meet tournament into a single national title event. Anthony Holman, NCAA [...]
The 3 for 3 blog, with John Hopkins, jump shots and jackets … == 1: THE NEW BIG TEN SPORT IS … — Lacrosse? The Big Ten announced Monday that it has added men’s and women’s lacrosse as the 27th and 28th sanctioned conference sports. Bylaws require six members to participate, so Maryland, Rutgers, Ohio State, Penn [...]
Chase Coley was at the Iowa women’s basketball camp last week and sent her dad an e-mail, saying she thought Iowa was going to offer her a scholarship. The next day, she called her dad to confirm … Iowa had offered! “She’s known for a while she wanted to go there. She was an excited [...]
Iowa assistant women’s basketball coach Shannon Gage is leaving to join the staff at Oklahoma State. Hawkeyes coach Lisa Bluder announced Gage’s departure after eight seasons on Tuesday. Gage, who is from Tulsa, Okla., worked at Iowa from 2003-05 as the director of basketball operations and as an assistant from 2007 until last season. The [...]
Iowa’s Javier Balboa (men’s gymnastics) and Morgan Johnson (women’s basketball) have been named Medal of Honor recipients by the Big Ten Conference. Johnson ended her Hawkeye career as the school’s all-time leader in blocked shots (293) and holds Iowa records for career games played and consecutive games played (130) along with career starts (129). She [...]
The 3 for 3 blog talks Hawkeye football and wrestling’s big question … == 1: IOWA’S SUMMER PROJECT: STOP LYNCH — Since there’s never a bad time to talk about college football in Iowa, I used a chance to talk to Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch to take a peek at the importance of Iowa’s opener [...]
One of the top high school dual-threat quarterbacks in the country was in Iowa City on Wednesday to get a closer look at the Iowa football program. The father of four-star prospect Rafe Peavey said Wednesday afternoon in a telephone interview that his son wants to get better acquainted with the Iowa coaches and with [...]
Start times have been set for Iowa’s first two football games, and both will air on the Big Ten Network. The Hawkeyes’ Aug. 31 opener against Northern Illinois will kick off at 2:30 p.m. The next week’s game against Missouri State will begin at 11 a.m. Northern Illinois is a trendy top 25 team after [...]
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway has been scheduled for arthroscopic knee surgery to address joint pain. The former Iowa Hawkeye was absent from practice on Tuesday and coach Leslie Frazier said the eighth-year veteran will have the procedure done Wednesday. Frazier didn’t specify which leg. The coach said Greenway would [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin senior quarterback Danny O’Brien has left the Badgers’ football program. The State Journal says O’Brien confirmed his departure. O’Brien was home in Kernersville, N.C., when the Badgers started their seven-week summer workout program Monday. O’Brien arrived as a transfer from Maryland a year ago. He won the starting [...]
