Many of the brick streets around central Marion are horribly bumpy. One of the worst is on 10th Street near the library. I would not advocate additional brick streets if they can't be better maintained than those already present.
Mike, I was a 20 year-old writer for the UNI newspaper at the time. You knew the team had "made it" when Dick Vitale had nicknames for the players.
It's worth pointing out that earlier that year about 20,000 UNI and Iowa fans filled the Dome to watch the Panthers beat the Hawks for the first time in three generations. Talk about energy in an arena ... I'm sure you remember.
At that time it was a tradition that the UNI dining centers served steak and shrimp the day after a Panther team took down the Hawks or Clones. There weren't many of those dinners served, but when they were, it was sweet.
Mark Few at Gonzaga. Zags have been to many a tourney of late. Time for Few to take his ball to a bigger gym.
Easier for me to think of this in terms of representing the body of work of UI athletics. So: 1 spot for wrestling, 1 for men's BB, 1 for womens BB, and 2 for football (might argue for "other sports" with the last pick but UI is, after all, a FB school)
How about:
Kinnick
Long
Lester
Brands (coach and 3-time NCAA champ)
Michelle Edwards
What's delusional in this article? Sounds to me like coach is not playing his son because he wants to, but because there are few choices. Basically admits that his son is overmatched against competition. If Iowa still had greyshirts like they did for Tom Davis, Lickliter would be one. Those greyshirts rarely played real minutes in a close game, and I don't think Lik's son would be either under normal circumstances.
Prior to 1999 UNI men's basketball had one previous trip (I believe) to the NCAA tourney. Ten years later, they have been to several tourneys and (arguably) have the most established, successful program among the D1s in Iowa. Who'd have thunk it? I'd post about UNI football too, except the program has been at a high level for more than 10 years.
Never understood why the CR management has not preferred to hook up with a MLB franchise in the Midwest. Always fun to catch a major leaguer in town during rehab -- we miss out on the Angels players doing so. Also would seem to fuel more interest in following the players up through the ranks.
USA Today has a graphic showing which coaches voted Iowa where in the final standings. Harbaugh and the guy at Washington State don't think much of Iowa. Noticed Patterson of TCU also skewed low. Patterson's low vote wouldn't have hurt his team, would it?
A good basketball program is good for the football program. You have to think that a recruit coming to Iowa City in Dec/Jan to a 15,500 Carver Hawkeye and hearing fans scream wildly when Ferentz is announced over the intercom, is much more impressive than 500 students and 4,000 adults sparcely filling the gym.
Iowa's destiny will be "known" by 2:01 p.m. Sunday. If Iowa is selected by the Cap One, there you go. If PSU is named, Iowa is bound for either the Fiesta or Orange (speculation seems to point more to Tempe than Miami). No way both Iowa and Penn State get overlooked in the BCS. I'm surprised that the Cap One will take the liberty to make their announcement ahead of the BCS -- I guess no one can tell them otherwise, but its not very cooperative.
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