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Archive for May, 2011

Bruce Pearl draws interest from NBA D-League team

[ 1 ] May 20, 2011

The Associated Press The Maine Red Claws of the NBA Developmental League have expressed interest in hiring former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl for its vacant position. Pearl, a former assistant at Iowa, was fired from Tennessee at the end of last season after lying to NCAA investigators during an inquiry. The Volunteers went 19-15 and [...]

Iowa vs. Northwestern to be in prime time

[ 9 ] May 20, 2011

The Hawkeyes will play only one prime-time football game in 2011.

Peterson: Is Northwestern at Iowa headed to prime time?

[ 4 ] May 19, 2011

You’ve all probably heard by now that the Big Ten Network is going to make a gigantic production about which football games will be televised prime time on the BTN  this fall. Will Northwestern at  Iowa on Oct. 15  at Kinnick be one of them. Maybe that’s the Hawkeyes’ only prime time BTN game, which [...]

Veteran men’s golfers carry high expectations

[ 0 ] May 18, 2011

When the Iowa men’s golf team got through regional competition to make it to the NCAA finals in 2009, words like surprised and overachieving best described the accomplishment. Two years later, expectation is the new buzz word circulating around coach Mark Hankins’ team entering today’s NCAA Indiana Regional at Wolf Run Golf Club in Zionsville, [...]

Mother says ex-RB Adam Robinson will transfer

[ 12 ] May 17, 2011

It’s official: Adam Robinson is a former Iowa football player. Robinson’s mother, Sally Robinson, said Tuesday that the running back from Des Moines will transfer. “All I can say now is that he’s exploring his options,” she said. “We don’t know where he will be enrolling, but he will be someplace, hopefully in time for [...]

Clemson vs. Iowa; Brownell pursued Hawkeye job

[ 0 ] May 17, 2011

  When Iowa was looking for a men’s basketball coach in March of 2010, Brad Brownell’s name was pitched to members of athletic director Gary Barta’s search committee. Brownell, then at Wright State, got some consideration, but Siena’s Fran McCaffery got the job. Brownell will make it to Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City next season, [...]

UI releases Lisa Bluder contract

[ 0 ] May 16, 2011

Lisa Bluder’s salary at the University of Iowa could eventually surpass half a million dollars.

UI looks to upgrade Kinnick security system

[ 1 ] May 16, 2011

The University of Iowa is working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on upgrades to the security system at Kinnick Stadium.

Tutson second in discus at Big Ten championship meet

[ 0 ] May 15, 2011

Majesty Tutson has come a long way in her sophomore season on the Iowa women’s track team. The City High graduate broke her own school record twice in the discus and finished second in the event at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships on Sunday at Francis X. Cretzmeyer Track. The Hawkeyes finished eighth with 59 [...]

Hawkeye men capture Big Ten Championship

[ 2 ] May 15, 2011

Forty-four years of waiting ended in fewer than two seconds at the Big Ten Outdoor Track Championships on Sunday in Iowa City. The Iowa men needed to beat Minnesota in the final event of the three-day meet to win their first conference title since 1967. The Hawkeyes’ second-place finish in the 4×400-meter relay topped the [...]