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 [...]
FROM UI SPORTS INFORMATION: IOWA CITY, Iowa – The NCAA announced today that 23 student-athletes from the University of Iowa have qualified for the 2013 NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships. The NCAA first round will be held May 23-25 in Austin, Texas, at Mike A. Myers Stadium. “We are very proud of the Iowa [...]
University of Iowa Athletics news release: Junior wrestler Derek St. John and senior field hockey player Jessica Barnett have been named the University of Iowa’s 2013 Male and Female Athletes of the Year. The duo will be Iowa’s nominees for the 2013 Big Ten Athletes of the Year awards. Winners will be announced in late [...]
FROM UI SPORTS INFORMATION: IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa senior Justin Austin has been named Big Ten Track Athlete of the Year and Athlete of the Big Ten Championships, the conference office announced Tuesday. It is the second time in three seasons Austin has swept the awards. He also earned both honors in [...]
The Big Ten is adding hockey to its list of sports, but don’t expect Iowa to take to the ice anytime soon. “The conference never tells us what sports to carry, not carry,” Hawkeye athletic director Gary Barta said. “I grew up playing hockey. I love the sport. “The process of adding any sport in [...]
The 3 for 3 blog tackles Big Ten tacklers, perspective on Lolo and a cause worth supporting … == 1: BIG TEN SHAKEUP — Sorting the recent shuffles in Big Ten football — the conference created two new divisions (2014) and is moving to a nine-game conference schedule (2016) — comes down to one thing. College. [...]