CHICAGO — Don’t get too comfortable in your seat at Kinnick Stadium. Iowa athletics director Gary Barta said Wednesday that Kinnick will once again be re-seated in 2014. The stadium was re-seated after a $90 million renovation project in 2006. Barta said Iowa told fans in ’06 that the process would happen again in [...]

  CHICAGO — The kickoff, as we know it, is in its final days. Since 2010, the NCAA has twice changed kickoff rules in an effort to improve player safety. The NFL has talked about some form of punting with a tighter space between teams as a replacement for the kickoff, which has been proven [...]

As the Big Ten meetings wind down today (and playoff talk around the country ramps up), it’s important to look at what’s most important to the league and its member institutions: money. Every public Big Ten athletics department (11 schools) achieved the gold standard of college sports by equaling revenue and expenses in fiscal year [...]

The “On Iowa” podcast with Marc Morehouse and Scott Dochterman talks about the revamped college football postseason at the Big Ten meetings in Chicago. We also answer your Twitter questions To listen to this podcast, click on side or below icon or download it at iTunes [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

  CHICAGO — The Big Ten’s relationship with the Rose Bowl is “critical.” It’s also “sensitive.” It has “sticking points.” It comes with “value.” As the college football world careens toward a playoff — be it a three-plus one or a two-two, whatever form it takes — the Big Ten’s relationship with the Rose Bowl [...]

  CHICAGO — The Big Ten wants to own the Rose Bowl, and so it will, along with their buddies from the Pac-12. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany has made this clear since college football has veered into serious talk about a playoff last month. What can Delany and the league expect to gain from [...]

Minnesota’s legislature passed a bill last week to help build a new $975 million stadium for the Vikings. The stadium should open by 2016 at the latest. The structure will have a roof, but it’s undetermined if it’s retractable or fixed. The Vikings will spend $477 million, the state kicks in $348 million and Minneapolis [...]

  – Rookie cornerback Shaun Prater of Iowa signed a four-year contract with the Cincinnati Bengals Thursday. That doesn’t mean he’s guaranteed four years, or even one, with Cincinnati, but it’s better than trying to be a holdout as the 156th player selected in the NFL draft. Prater will make that team, and he’ll be [...]

  HEADLONG HAWKEYE (AND CYCLONE) It kind of flew under my radar because I’ve been in and out of town the last few weeks. There is a new Cy-Hawk football trophy and it’s not bad. Here it is: Obviously, it’s the one on the top. It’s fine. It’s not the grotesque stereotype the “Family of [...]

  Here are the details for tickets on the Hawkeyes’ game at Soldier Field against Northern Illinois. We might know about TV for this game by the end of the month or the first week of June. It’s a home game for Northern, so the TV rights belong to the Mid-American Conference, which hasn’t announced [...]