When Schott first got to Iowa City, few people knew his name. Include Iowa offensive line coach Tim Polasek on that list.
Polasek had a habit of mispronouncing Schott’s last name, leading to one of...
April 28, 2020
Schott is in a position nobody from his high school has ever been in before. The school has graduated Division-1 athletes, but as far as Schott can remember, none have been football players at a major...
April 25, 2020
During practice, it’s clear exactly how Bluder accomplishes this. Anyone in Carver-Hawkeye Arena can feel the intensity and volume she brings onto the court; she dissects every detail of a drill until...
April 25, 2020
Bluder seemed to have immediate success since her head-coaching début at St. Ambrose University in 1984. The Wisconsin-born coach who grew up in Marion attributes her winning ways during this first stint...
Every year in my house, April 19 was one of the few days out of the year I might see my parents cry. Even when I was too young to comprehend it fully, I could sense the helplessness they must have felt,...
My mom and several of her coworkers had survived, “at least physically,” she said. Any given morning, there could be 20 people in the DEA office. But the day of the bombing, there were five. It was...
Waters told me he could recall working late the night before the bombing. He left the Murrah building around 9 p.m. and saw a pair of strange men staking it out. They looked like hitmen, Waters said.
“It...
Crisis-recovery work was all McCarver did for six weeks after the bombing. She worked late every night, and often into the early morning. She did administrative work, and once spent a whole day driving...
Gina Bonny was sitting at her desk in the Murrah building and working on a report. She had just returned from the Drug Enforcement Administration office at the other end of the building and from visiting...
April 7, 2020
The weekends now come and go in Iowa City with no fanfare.
Parking spots — which are usually hard to come by in the busy Downtown District — are now plentiful along the city streets. The doors...
April 7, 2020
While Cremer waited for customers as he worked at the food truck, UI third-year students Bailey Fitzgibbon and Holly Dannen, communications majors from the Des Moines area, sat on the Pentacrest lawn on...
April 7, 2020
As the seniors absorbed the sights and silence of a mostly empty campus, Street Hawk cook Ben Cremer worked inside the UI’s food truck. The savory aroma of burgers, pulled pork sandwiches, and other...
