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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

Women’s tennis gets new coach

DI STAFF November 20, 2009

On Thursday, the athletics department announced that Katie Dougherty will be the new head coach of the Iowa women’s tennis team. Dougherty will be the seventh head coach in the history of the program....

Dodgeball domination

MITCH SMITH November 20, 2009

Favre not only excels in football, but dodge ball as well. In the Field House on Thursday, Favre’s Favorites, the All-University intramural flag-football champion, defeated Loud and Slow, 10-1. Intramural...

PT Pandas takes intramural women’s volleyball championship

IAN MARTIN November 20, 2009

Usually a match between former UI club volleyballers and graduate students will end in a win for the ex-club players. But on Thursday night in the Field House North Gym, the PT Pandas, a group of mostly...

Iowa, Minnesota ending season in trophy battle

JON LINDER November 20, 2009

The difference between chaos and serenity is in the eye of the beholder — especially if said beholder is a bronze pig named Floyd. Iowa football faithful can complain in earnest of the maddening season...

Women’s cross-country season full of near misses

MICHELE DANNO November 19, 2009

Some may consider the 2009 Iowa women’s cross-country season a rebuilding year because of the loss of 2008 star duo in Racheal Marchand and Sarah Perry. But at the start of their campaign, the Hawkeye...

NCAA looks into student-athlete gambling

CLARK CAHILL November 19, 2009

Throwing down money on fantasy football and the ever-popular March Madness brackets at the end of the NCAA basketball season are common-place for many people, including college students. But for student-athletes...

Men’s tennis recruits far and wide

JAKE KRZECZOWSKI November 19, 2009

At least once a year Iowa men’s tennis assistant coach Steve Nash finds himself in a foreign country, trying to order off strange menus at restaurants and remembering to stay on the left side of the...

Dodge-ball fans hit Field House

MATT SCHOMMER November 19, 2009

It only took a few short minutes for Cale’s Team to defeat Smooth Obturators in an intramural dodge-ball game Wednesday night in the Field House. The 10-2 victory all but assures a spot for Cale’s...

A longtime fan

JAKE KRZECZOWSKI November 19, 2009

On a fall day in 1926, Clifford Huff and some neighborhood boys ventured to City Field, located roughly where the Main Library parking lot now sits, to watch a football game between Iowa and Minnesota. With...

Women’s basketball falls to Kansas

JORDAN GARRETSON November 19, 2009

Kachine Alexander scored 23 points and corralled 17 rebounds in Carver-Hawkeye Arena Wednesday Night, posting her third double-double of the season in as many games. But it wasn’t enough. The Iowa...

Hamlin’s return inspires ‘Bluder’s Bunch’

EVELYN LAU November 19, 2009

“No Regrets. No Excuses” read the back of JoAnn Hamlin’s shirt Wednesday night when Iowa hosted No. 19 Kansas in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. It is also the mentality she brings to the Iowa women’s basketball...

Family ties common in Iowa wrestling

J.T. BUGOS November 19, 2009

The Iowa wrestling program is no stranger to having brothers on the same squad. What the program isn’t accustomed to, however, is having an uncle and a nephew who view themselves as brothers. Freshman...