Many collegiate athletes are eyeing the next level. In football, basketball, and baseball, players will leave college early to get their shot at professional sports.
Alison Cavanaugh does not play golf...
It is a common saying in sports that the off-season is where the most work gets done — where each person on the team can improve himself and lift the team to the next plateau.
Nowadays, it seems as...
For collegiate distance runners, the season never ends.
When they sign on to compete in cross-country, they sign on to compete in both indoor and outdoor track as well — meaing their season stretches...
Since Shonn Greene’s departure for the NFL last January, no position on Iowa’s roster has generated more questions, speculation, and general disquiet among the Hawkeye faithful than running back.
The...
If Iowa’s preseason quarterback derby could be compared to the 2008 Olympic 100-meter dash, Ricky Stanzi would be Usain Bolt.
No, the 6-4 junior isn’t planning to ditch his playbook for a pair of...
After last season’s 4-8 campaign, former Purdue head coach Joe Tiller retired, riding off into the sunset with his fishing pole in hand and his Wyoming home in his sights.
In his place remains Danny...
The Iowa field hockey team may have a new look, but expectations remain the same.
Tracey Griesbaum enters the 2009 season with a 16-woman squad that includes eight freshmen and just three seniors —...
“New,” “different,” and “improvement” were the words used by Iowa head volleyball coach Sharon Dingman during her press conference at the team’s media day in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Wednesday.
“I...
Four swimmers from the Iowa men’s and women’s squads were recognized this week for success in the world of academia.
Men’s swimmer Ryan Phelan and women’s swimmers Alison Gschwend, Christine Kuczek,...
The stopwatch alarm rings. UI student Dmitri Petrov approaches his opponent. He is not huge, hovering around 6 feet. Dark hair. Medium skin. He approaches his opponent, a smaller guy in a white shirt....
