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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Point/counterpoint: Without White, who was Iowa’s Freshman of the Year?

DI STAFF May 7, 2012

Sam Logic, women's basketball The Iowa women's basketball team's NCAA Tournament hopes seemed to nosedive at the same moment Jaime Printy went down with a torn ACL against Wisconsin on Feb. 2. Iowa had...

‘Is horse racing a sport?’ Are you serious?

TORK MASON May 7, 2012

I came across a thread on a message board on the afternoon of May 5, following the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby — one that questioned why horse racing is considered a sport. Here's an excerpt: "Sure...

Iowa track crowns two at Messersmith Invitational

DI STAFF May 7, 2012

CEDAR FALLS — The Iowa track and field team sent a handful of athletes to the Messersmith Invitational at Northern Iowa on May 4, although it was a much smaller handful than originally expected. The...

Hawkeye baseball drops two to last-place Michigan

DI STAFF May 7, 2012

The Iowa baseball team received a pair of stellar pitching performances over the weekend but ended its weekend series against Michigan with only one win to show for it. The Hawkeyes and Wolverines played...

Iowa softball claims fourth consecutive Big Ten series

DI STAFF May 7, 2012

The Iowa softball team claimed its fourth-straight Big Ten series win this weekend by taking two of three from Ohio State. Iowa (25-25, 14-7 Big Ten) swept a double-header from the Buckeyes on May 5;...

Former Iowa divers take fifth at Canada Cup

DI STAFF May 7, 2012

Former Iowa divers Veronica Rydze and Deidre Freeman competed in the 2012 Canada Cup in Montréal over the weekend and finished fifth. The duo posted a score of 275.04 points in the 3-meter springboard...

DI Freshman of the Year: Aaron White

SETH ROBERTS May 7, 2012

Aaron White didn't look like he had been ready to shoot when he tossed up an off-balance hook shot in the second half of Iowa's first-round NIT game against Dayton on March 13.   It didn't matter....

Iowa baseball at tail end of Big Ten logjam

BEN SCHUFF May 4, 2012

Six teams will gather in Columbus, Ohio, on May 23 to play in the Big Ten baseball tourney. But which schools will make up the majority of the field remains a crapshoot. The conference standings are a...

Road tests loom for Hawkeye softball

BEN ROSS May 4, 2012

Just six Big Ten contests stand between the Iowa softball team and the end of the season. Iowa took two out of three against Indiana (8-10 Big Ten) in the last home games of the year last weekend, and...

Iowa’s track stars take much-needed break before conference championships

CODY GOODWIN May 4, 2012

The Iowa track program has gone through five long weeks. The outdoor season began for most of the tracksters the day after the Big Ten indoor championships on the weekend of Feb. 25. Both the women's...

Hawkeye trackster Larney has to slow down to speed up

TORK MASON May 4, 2012

Iowa's Josh Larney was brought into the program to have an immediate effect. The junior was a JuCo national champion in the long jump at Iowa Central Community College in 2011, and he joined the Hawkeyes...

Iowa football announces kickoff times for four games

DI STAFF May 4, 2012

The Iowa football team announced starting times and television information for four of its 2012 home games on Thursday. Iowa's home games against Minnesota on Sept. 29 and Nebraska on Nov. 23 will both...