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Iowa #Hawkeyes 🏈 reporter for @gazettedotcom • @AP_Top25 voter • Cheese curd connoisseur • Proud @MarquetteU alum • john.steppe @thegazette .com
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A.J. Edds has gone from being a
#Hawkeyes
linebacker to being the one essentially running the sport for the Big Ten.
Big Ten coaches have lauded Edds’ work, with one saying the former Hawkeye could be a commissioner at some point.
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The Iowa marching band mimicking a Caitlin Clark three during the halftime show.
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Can’t imagine anything more romantic than a 6-6 football game
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Some heartbreaking news to share...
MRI scans show Iowa WBB commit Ava Jones tore all four major ligaments in both knees in the July crash while she was in Louisville for an AAU tournament.
Lisa Bluder: "I doubt she will ever play basketball again."
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Big applause as AD Beth Goetz says to Kate Martin she has an office ready "when you're ready for me to hire you."
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#Hawkeyes
DB Xavier Nwankpa on former HS teammate (and five-star OL) Kadyn Proctor visiting Oregon: "It's his process, and you've got to take the trips. ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So for him, I told him to take advantage of it for sure, but Iowa's still home."
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Cade McNamara was in Cedar Rapids for an NIL sponsor’s sporting goods donation to the Boys and Girls Club.
One of the adults asked: “Do you guys know who this is?”
Kids in unison: “Nooo”
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Former
#Hawkeyes
athlete Brittany Brown takes the bronze medal in the 200 meter.
Becomes the first woman in
@IowaXC_TF
history to earn an individual Olympic medal.
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Utah State HC Blake Anderson interacting with some Iowa students
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#Hawkeyes
WBB retired numbers:
10 Megan Gustafson
30 Michelle Edwards
And now...
22 Caitlin Clark
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Marshall Meeder entered the portal before spring practices.
After talking to a “couple of schools,” Meeder thought he was “done playing football.”
LeVar Woods reached out 2 weeks before school started. Today, he hits the game-winning FG.
“It’s been a crazy ride.”
#Hawkeyes
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Beth Goetz: "To our incredible senior class, you have stolen our hearts and left your mark on this program and the game of women's basketball."
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Kirk Ferentz: Redshirting true freshman DE Aaron Graves would be "stupid on our part right now."
"He belongs on the field with the older guys."
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Big Ten POYs since 2017-18:
2017-18: Megan Gustafson, Iowa; Kelsey Mitchell, Ohio State
2018-19: Megan Gustafson, Iowa
2019-20: Kathleen Doyle, Iowa
2020-21: Naz Hillmon, Michigan
2021-22: Caitlin Clark, Iowa
2022-23: Caitlin Clark, Iowa
2023-24: Caitlin Clark, Iowa
#Hawkeyes
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Iowa City: home to the No. 3 college football team in the country.
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I’d say they successfully unleashed chaos.
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INBOX:
@IowaSwarm
has received a $500,000 contribution from Elite Casino Resorts, which will become the collective's exclusive casino gaming partner.
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Kirk Ferentz: "The bottom line is football is not a beauty contest. It's not like gymnastics where you get style points. It's about finding a way to be successful."
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FINAL: No. 5 Iowa 51, Maryland 14.
A whole lotta happy Hawkeyes here in College Park:
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Kirk Ferentz has dissolved the committee created in 2020 to improve the program’s culture.
It comes after a contentious meeting during the bye week and the chair’s suggestion that Ferentz and AD Gary Barta retire.
Via
@VanessaMiller12
and me:
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Kirk Ferentz was critical of the NCAA again on his radio show in the wake of Noah Shannon's failed appeal: "It's a faceless organization, and rarely do you see a name attributed to whatever their decisions are. ... It's hard to call people that don't have numbers."
#Hawkeyes
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LeVar Woods saw Tory Taylor’s family experiencing a “Welcome to Iowa” moment at last week’s game:
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Iowa athletics director Gary Barta told The Gazette he anticipates Iowa paying athletes for good grades "probably starting next year."
(This is allowed (up to $5,980) because of the NCAA v. Alston ruling.)
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#Hawkeyes
LB Jay Higgins has 133 tackles so far this season (tied for 16th in Iowa history).
Needs 13 more (4.33 per game) to pass Pat Angerer for fourth all-time.
Needs 26 more (8.67 per game) to pass Abdul Hodge for second.
Needs 39 more (13 per game) to break the record.
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Packed house in Tipton tonight for
@amyklobuchar
. It’s her eighth event of the day in eight counties. She promises Iowans, “We will not leave the Midwest behind again.”
#IACaucus
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Tomorrow will be Monika Czinano and McKenna Warnock's final game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
They'll get to experience one of their favorite things as
#Hawkeyes
-- sellouts -- one more time.
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Tory Taylor: "A few people had a few choice words to say for Drew, and I just kind of fired back and just said, 'That's not the way you treat someone. He's not going out there and missing kicks on purpose.'"
"My biggest thing was just trying to be there for Drew."
Brian Ferentz appeared to be yelling at Drew Stevens as Stevens walked down the sideline.
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The Higgins family has already bought 40 tickets for the Big Ten championship game,
@higginized
told me. Goal is to have 75 people there.
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Molly Davis getting some shots up at the beginning of practice
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Charlie Jones was going fast enough to get a speeding ticket in University Heights on that TD return.
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KF on the radio show about alternate uniforms: "Don't ask me."
"One thing we will not wear is black pants and white jerseys. Not that I'm superstitious, but that won't be happening."
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.
@sportsiren
told me this morning she has "never seen anything like" Caitlin Clark's Elite Eight performance against LSU:
#Hawkeyes
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#Hawkeyes
QB Cade McNamara tells me ahead of today’s
@IowaSwarm
event that he has been fully cleared to play.
“We’re really close to camp now. The football and the conditioning and everything’s ramping up, and my body has been handling it very well.”
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Thrilled to announce I’m moving to the
#Hawkeyes
football beat for
@gazettedotcom
/
@GazetteOnIowa
!
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Lisa Bluder: "I'm telling you, this is brutal. It's really tough to walk out of that locker room today and to not be able to coach Monika and the McKenna ever again. That's tough."
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Deacon Hill’s final numbers: 20-for-31, 223 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
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Brady Quinn on halftime show: "If I'm Alex Padilla, I'm like, 'Hi Coach, do you know me? Can I come in the game right now?'"
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#Hawkeyes
safety Xavier Nwankpa on Kadyn Proctor leaving Iowa for Alabama:
"I was a little disappointed. Obviously wanted to play with him, coming from high school, us being high school teammates. But it's not a place for everybody, so I just wish him the best of luck."
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