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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

Men’s swimmers fall in prelims

BEN WOLFSON March 25, 2011

Members of the Iowa men’s swimming team had a rough first day in Minneapolis Thursday in the NCAA meet. The 200-free relay team — juniors Ryan Phelan, Duncan Partridge and Paul Gordon, and sophomore...

Softball opens conference play at Ohio State

DI STAFF March 25, 2011

The Iowa softball team will open conference play this weekend against Ohio State on Saturday and March 27 in Columbus, Ohio. Both games are scheduled to start at 1 p.m. The Hawkeyes are 16-12 and have...

McCaffery to appear on Big Ten Network

DI STAFF March 25, 2011

Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery will appear on the Big Ten Network as a guest analyst on March 28. The first-year coach will join hosts Dave Revsine, Mike Hall, and Shon Morris for “Big...

Women’s tennis sets team goal entering Big Ten play

NICK SZAFRANSKI March 25, 2011

The Iowa women’s tennis team’s nonconference schedule has been a bit bumpier than expected, but as conference play emerges, the Hawkeyes look to prey. Iowa (3-8) will begin its highly competitive...

Iowa men’s tennis anxious to play after successful spring trip

BEN ROSS March 25, 2011

This weekend marks the kickoff of the Big Ten tennis season for the Hawkeyes — they will compete against Ohio State (16-2) and Penn State (10-8) at home. No. 66 Iowa will face the No. 5 Buckeyes today...

Rowing meet against Minnesota canceled

DI STAFF March 25, 2011

The Hawkeye rowing team does not get a lot of chances to race at home. Mother Nature has knocked out the Hawkeyes’ only chance to do so in the 2011 spring season. The squad’s home meet fell victim...

Women’s distance runners head to California

DI STAFF March 25, 2011

Head coach Layne Anderson and the Iowa women’s track and field team will kick off the outdoor season today with 11 distance runners competing at the Stanford Invitational in Stanford, Calif. The Hawkeyes...

Volleyball set to open spring schedule

DI STAFF March 25, 2011

The Iowa volleyball team will open its spring season at home Saturday but in unfamiliar surroundings. The Hawkeyes will be in the Field House South Gym when they face Truman State at 2 p.m. and Western...

Ferentz still baffled by rhabdo incident, hopes to move on

JORDAN GARRETSON March 24, 2011

Kirk Ferentz is stillpuzzled. Two months after 13 Iowa football players were hospitalized with rhabdomyolysis, the 13th-year head coach — along with many others — is still left wondering exactly...

Commentary: Post-rhabdo, not much change for Iowa football

IAN MARTIN March 24, 2011

Rhabdomylosis hasn’t really changed anything in Iowa City. The 13 players admitted to the hospital after an intense Jan. 20 workout are all healthy and well, said head coach Kirk Ferentz, and no one...

UI alumna to swim English Channel

JON FRANK March 24, 2011

Cheyanne Boddicker spends her Sunday afternoon training in Coralville. Sandbag weights hug her ankles. Her legs crank at a 90-degree angle, and she grips a 14-pound medicine ball overhead, her elbows locked...

Men’s swim team set for NCAA competition

BEN WOLFSON March 24, 2011

Four members of the Iowa swimming team didn’t spend last week on sunny coastal beaches like many other University of Iowa students. Juniors Duncan Partridge, Ryan Phelan, and Paul Gordon, along with...