Nobody seems to be complaining about the Big Ten Conference’s upcoming football schedules. When league officials invited Maryland and Rutgers to join, beginning in 2014, geography became more of an emphasis. As a result, Iowa was placed in the West Division with Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin. For Hawkeye fans, that means shorter [...]
Chad Greenway is embracing a youth movement. The former Iowa linebacker is an elder statesman for the Minnesota Vikings, a franchise that advanced to the NFL playoffs last season and continues to overhaul its roster. “We’re very excited about where we’re at,” said Greenway, a seven-year veteran, “and we’re also very excited about where we’re [...]
Once again this season, 35 bowl games are scheduled to be played in 28 communities across the nation over a span of 17 days.
If Iowa State football coach Paul Rhoads had his way, he’d only sweat out the rest of the summer and early fall while his top recruit, already verbally committed to the Cyclones, plays footsie with other programs. He’d have an opportunity to lock up Urbandale receiver Allen Lazard and other high school seniors-to-be who accepted [...]
Iowa State recruit Allen Lazard, a receiver from Urbandale, is No. 25 on Rivals.com’s list of the top 100 high school football players in the Class of 2014. The 6-foot-5, 204-pounder is the top-ranked receiver in the country, according to Rivals. The list, released on Monday, also had Iowa recruit Ross Pierschbacher of Cedar Falls [...]
Nobody seems to be complaining about the Big Ten Conference’s upcoming football schedules. When league officials invited Maryland and Rutgers to join, beginning in 2014, geography became more of an emphasis. As a result, Iowa was placed in the West Division with Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin. For Hawkeye fans, that means shorter [...]
I hereby nominate Barry Alvarez to college football’s playoff selection committee. Some of the details are still being worked out. The people in charge of putting together a four-team tournament following the 2014 season have yet to establish a clear criteria for the job. In fact, there’s some debate about who would even want to [...]
The freshly minted 2014 Big Ten football schedule plays right into Iowa’s rebuilding wheelhouse. No Ohio State. No Michigan. No Penn State. No Michigan State. Instead, the Hawkeyes drew crossover games with Indiana and Maryland on the schedule released Thursday. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz couldn’t have diagrammed it any better on the chalkboard. The Hawkeyes [...]
It was a good weekend to be one of Iowa’s best high school basketball players. Iowa women’s signee Ally Disterhoft, this year’s Miss Basketball, and men’s signee Peter Jok, the state’s Mr. Basketball, were both named to the 2013 Parade All-America teams. Disterhoft, of Iowa City, and Jok, from West Des Moines Valley, were among [...]
What seemed like a perfect match got mired in controversy the very day Steve Alford was introduced at UCLA. Now fans are skeptical, and he has his work cut out. Read the full story from the Los Angeles Times.
No more baby steps. Iowa’s 2013-14 basketball schedule will be a man-sized challenge. “Substantially tougher,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “But that was by design.” McCaffery took a cautious approach to scheduling last season, knowing he’d have two freshmen in his starting lineup. And two — Mike Gesell and Adam Woodbury — turned into three [...]
Kurt Backes spent recent years carving his career path from lessons he learned on the mat. Beginning next month, he’ll utilize the education he received in the classroom. The Iowa volunteer assistant wrestling coach said Tuesday that he is leaving the Hawkeyes for a job at Wells Fargo in Des Moines. “I’m going to use [...]
The Rumble on the Rails will feature a couple wrestlers with Iowa connections. Brent Metcalf, a two-time NCAA champion at Iowa, and former Northern Iowa wrestler Jordan Holm were selected to wrestle for the U.S. squads, which will compete on May 15 against Russia and Iran at New York’s Grand Central Station. Metcalf will compete [...]
Logan Thomsen feels a strong connection to his home state and pulls for all three of Iowa’s Division I wrestling programs. “I like seeing the state as a whole do good,” the state champion from Union of LaPorte City said. “It’s a state-wide (source of pride) to prove Iowa — the state itself — is [...]
FROM UI SPORTS INFORMATION: IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa women’s basketball team will host Syracuse as part of the seventh annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge. The game is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 5, in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Start time and television information will be released at a later date. Syracuse begins a new era [...]
AMANA — Lisa Bluder hasn’t brought in a lot of walk-ons during her time with the Hawkeyes. But she’s making an exception for Davenport Assumption senior Hailey Schneden, a 6-foot-2 forward. “She comes from a good program,” Bluder said Tuesday night at the Iowa County I-Club event. “It’s not something we do a [...]
The six head coaches in the Prime Time League still have more than a month to decide who they would take with the first pick in the June 16 PTL draft.
BY KEN FUSON AND ANDREW LOGUE — DES MOINES REGISTER A moment of silence, please, for a voice that was rarely still: Jim Zabel, the broadcasting legend whose hyperbolic descriptions of University of Iowa sports teams entertained radio listeners for more than half a century, died Thursday at his Scottsdale, Ariz., home. He was 91. [...]
Jack Dahm had a bad feeling heading into a Thursday afternoon meeting with Iowa Director of Athletics Gary Barta. Dahm could sense that his 10-year run as the Iowa baseball coach was about to end. He was so convinced that he already had written a letter telling his players that his contract wouldn’t be renewed. [...]
FROM UI SPORTS INFORMATION: IOWA CITY, Iowa — The National Iowa Varsity Club and the University of Iowa Athletics Department will induct six individuals into the National Iowa Varsity Club Athletics Hall of Fame on Aug. 30, 2013. Five former University of Iowa student-athletes and one former coach make up the 25th Hall of Fame [...]
The University of Iowa will be looking for its second women’s rowing coach in just 10 months. The school announced Monday that coach Steve Pritzker is leaving to become the chief financial officer for the athletic department at the University of Virginia. Pritzker spent nine seasons at Virginia before taking over at Iowa in July. [...]
Money has always had a significant influence over major-college sports. It just used to be impolite to talk about it so openly. But the cash is pouring into the coffers at big schools like never before, and the conversation has become more honest. Every fan knows the salary of the multimillion-dollar football coaches, follows along [...]
