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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

Soccer takes on ’Cats

ROBBIE LEHMAN October 22, 2009

Forget black and gold attire. Pink will be the preferred color to support the Iowa soccer team tonight. The Hawkeyes will host Northwestern at the Iowa Soccer Complex at 7 p.m. in the first event of a...

Beamesderfer, Dean honored

DI SPORTS STAFF October 22, 2009

The National Field Hockey Coaches Association announced its 2009 Division-I Senior All-Stars on Wednesday, and two senior members of the Iowa field hockey team — Tricia Dean and Meghan Beamesderfer —...

Women’s tennis in regional

DI SPORTS STAFF October 22, 2009

The Iowa women’s tennis team will begin play at the Midwest Regional tournament at 9 a.m. today. The tournament will run through Oct. 27. Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern,...

An intramural champion

MITCH SMITH October 22, 2009

Derek “White Chocolate” Johnson is an intramural-sports lifer. Voted the DI Intramural Athlete of the Week last week, Johnson, 22, is a fifth-year senior studying marketing and management. The Urbandale,...

DCD defense dominates Dirt Show

MATT SCHOMMER October 22, 2009

After Wednesday night’s game at the Hawkeye Recreation Fields, DCD has still only allowed one touchdown all year. The squad’s sterling defense shut out Dirt Show, 27-0. Initially, it didn’t look...

Ferentz and Co. not concerned with BCS

SCOTT MILLER October 21, 2009

Ricky Stanzi doesn’t read newspapers, or watch television, or the look up the latest BCS standings. The Iowa junior starting quarterback doesn’t much care about his team’s rapid rise from being...

Commentary: Now, polls take on meaning

JON LINDER October 21, 2009

There’s a line in the Possum Lodge Man’s Prayer: “I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.” It’s tough to draw comparisons between “The Red Green Show” and college football...

Hawkeyes present Spartans a major challenge

BRENDAN STILES October 21, 2009

At this time three weeks ago, Michigan State sat at 1-3 overall. The Spartans had lost three-straight contests by a combined 13 total points, falling to the likes of Central Michigan, Notre Dame, and Wisconsin. Now,...

Diving into a new sport

MITCH SMITH October 21, 2009

For her entire athletics career, Brittany Logan was always taught to land on her feet. Now she’s learning how to land on her head. Logan, 22 and a senior psychology major, is in her first year on the...

Running in the genes of six Hawkeye harriers

MICHELE DANNO October 21, 2009

The adage “a family that plays together stays together” can be reasonably applied to this year’s Iowa women’s cross-country squad, a group composed of many second- and third-generation athletes. Six...

Course poses a greater challenge than most

SEAN MORGAN October 21, 2009

In NCAA cross-country, schools bid for the honor of hosting the Pre-National and national meets. In the mind of Iowa’s head men’s cross-country coach Larry Wieczorek, Iowa’s Ashton Cross-Country...

Commentary: Clear minds yield low golf scores

J.T. BUGOS October 21, 2009

I am not a golfer. If I know one thing about my athletic prowess, it’s that golf does not suit me. It’s not that I tried once and stopped. I get out on the course a few times a year and hack until...