On average, a collegiate cross-country runner will cover 80 to 90 miles a week in an attempt to keep himself physically prepared for competition.
How these athletes prepare to run those 90 miles may be...
Emma Krieger Kittle knows all about expectations.
The Iowa City native could have been a college basketball player. She could have followed the rest of her family — spanning four generations — in...
Defensive play
There was a lot to hate about Iowa’s victorious embarrassment at the hands of Northern Iowa.
From the Hawkeyes’ defense doing its best to snuggle 172-pound freshman Carlos Anderson...
When it comes time for college, normally most people want to get as far away from home as possible. Upon graduation, they normally get a job somewhere other than where they lived or went to school.
Nowadays,...
For the last three months, Merel Beelen has been in limbo.
A member of the Iowa women’s tennis team, she applied to the NCAA for a hardship waiver after last season. That organization recently approved...
When the new Campus Recreation & Wellness Center is completed next summer, the Iowa aquatics program hopes to make a big splash in the community.
With physical-education classes, men’s and women’s...
The Paki O’Meara experiment didn’t necessarily go as planned in Iowa’s opener on Sept. 5 against Northern Iowa.
Consequently, three days after the junior running back ran the ball nine times for...
In the first flag-football game of the year, Slater’s Sloppy Seconds was able to overcome an early deficit and defeat an experienced team of sophomores and juniors in the Brown Bombers, 19-12.
Slater’s...
This weekend, all eyes will be on the Big Ten. As a conference, the spotlight will be shining on Columbus, Ann Arbor, and Minneapolis, where there are enormous games taking place — ones that will either...
I hear it all the time.
Kirk Ferentz, Ken O’Keefe, and Norm Parker don’t change their philosophies.
But I understand why. They like to keep things simple.
What you see is what you get. And more...
When the Iowa Hawkeyes left the field on Sept. 5 with a 17-16 victory over Northern Iowa, all the talk afterwards was about the game’s ending.
And rightfully so.
The Hawkeyes had to block two field-goal...
Kirk Ferentz has had some mighty fine days leading the Black and Gold. Sept. 5 was not one of them.
Every coach has off days, and sometimes they occur when you have to lead a team against a supposedly...
