Time to be frank, Iowa hoops fans. Your team isn’t making the NCAA tournament this season. And the worst part is, the Hawkeyes know they aren’t going to be good this year. Do I actually know...

Iowa lost three of its 2020-21 starters ahead of the 2021-22 season. Guards Joe Wieskamp and CJ Fredrick and center Luka Garza scored about 55 percent of Iowa’s points last year. With so much...

There’s no doubt in my mind that Iowa women’s basketball is going to be successful this season. The Hawkeyes are returning all five starters and 99 percent of their scoring on an offense that scored...

Iowa women’s basketball wasn’t the Big Ten Conference’s best program last year. In 2020-21, the Hawkeyes finished the regular season with 20-10 overall and 11-8 conference records. Iowa was the...

Mayor Bruce Teague recalled that the second he heard about George Floyd’s death, he joined with three other elected officials and a pastor to create Speak Up, Speak Out, a series of listening sessions...

Mazahir Salih, mayor pro tem of Iowa City, said racial injustice always concerned her not just as a Black community leader, but also as a Black woman. For others, she said, it took the death of George...

City Councilor Janice Weiner recalled that a conversation with her daughter helped her recognize the reality of systemic racism before summer 2020 when they lived in Washington, D.C. “My older daughter...

David Drustrup, a police abolition activist, called what happened to Floyd “another chapter of the same book.” He said he distinctly remembers hearing protesters marching past his apartment and on...

Raneem Hamad did not think she would make it out of the protests of summer 2020 alive. “We really thought our lives were in danger,” she said. The last time the Iowa Freedom Riders hosted a protest...

Ala Mohamed said protesting in Iowa City in summer 2020 and helping to found the Iowa Freedom Riders was “not the first rodeo” she or fellow Iowa Freedom Riders founder Raneem Hamad had experienced. During...

Iowa can’t make the College Football Playoff anymore. After Saturday, the Iowa football team's hopes for the College Football Playoff are a thing of the past. The 24-7 defeat wasn’t just a loss....

Deep down, do I actually believe Iowa football will make the 2021 College Football Playoff? No, not really. Despite my doubts, I do think there’s still a path the Hawkeyes can take to the College Football...