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Tag: Iowa Hawkeyes

  • An Open Letter to the University of Arizona

    An Open Letter to the University of Arizona

    Fans, students and faculty of the University of Arizona, I am writing to you today amidst news that you have scheduled a football home game against the Bison of North Dakota State.  The North Dakota State Bison have a very good football team which plays incredibly physical and smart football which often grinds even the best […]

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  • March Sadness: Heartbreak in the Heartland

    March Sadness: Heartbreak in the Heartland

    March Madness is the best time of the year for sports fans.

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  • The Outback Bowl: A Preview and More

    The Outback Bowl: A Preview and More

    Depending on when you read this article, this is one of the stranger weeks of the year, at least for me. I put a butt-ton of effort, energy and emotion into the holidays, Christmas specifically, and then it’s over. It’s just over. And I’m sad. But there is a silver lining – the NCAA reserves […]

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  • Iowa vs Nebraska – It’s More than a Football Rivalry

    Iowa vs Nebraska – It’s More than a Football Rivalry

    Allow me to set the scene – it’s the day after Thanksgiving and my wife and her female friends and family are up and out of the house long before sunrise, freezing their kit-kats off while schlepping around the chilly Des Moines metro area, standing in long lines and being trampled by and trampling other […]

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  • Iowa Hoops Season Preview

    Editor’s note: This preview was written by ZHawk44. Please give him a follow on Twitter. The Iowa Men’s Basketball team will have a very different look this year. The Hawkeyes are without four seniors who contributed to winning an NCAA Tournament game last season: Mike Gesell, Anthony Clemmons, Adam Woodbury and Jarrod Uthoff. Each of […]

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  • 5 Questions with Barry Grandgenett: Hawkeye Football Edition

    5 Questions with Barry Grandgenett: Hawkeye Football Edition

    This is what I hope to be the first of many installments of “5 Questions with Barry Grandgenett,” and I wanted to start out with something a bit less controversial than Big 12 Refs or the current political scene – how about Hawkeye football?! Sounds fun, right? There’s no other way to put it, the […]

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  • #TBT: College Sports Mascots

    Today’s Throwback Thursday take us to an era where children may have been a little less open to getting a picture with their favorite mascot. From birds to animals to trees (what?) mascots have been a part of sports since their creation, but have definitely become far more inviting creatures in the modern era. While […]

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  • The realist vs. the loyalist

    I had my little, Herky-heart broken last Saturday in the loss to NDSU at Kinnick. Coming off an exciting 2015 season, the Hawks appeared to have their arrows all pointed in the right direction for the first time since 2009. With key players on both sides of the ball back, Iowa seemed to have genuine […]

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  • This week in the Group of 5 – 9/20/16

    This week in the Group of 5 – 9/20/16

    College football was ridiculous fun last weekend, wasn’t it? There were surprising results all over the place, with Louisville cementing their place at the top of the polls with a dominant performance against Florida State that saw the #2 team in the country going down by 43 points, Houston finally finding a way to end […]

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  • Drunk Dialing 1.08: Not a great day for football in the state of Iowa

    Drunk Dialing 1.08: Not a great day for football in the state of Iowa

    Ted and Jared have fun talking to callers about the outcomes of Saturday’s games, well as much fun as you can have while talking about two tough losses. They transition to talking about sports movie endings because let’s be honest, they’re better than the football we saw on Saturday. All in all it turned out to […]

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