IOWA CITY — As the Wisconsin Badgers’ roster has shrunk, Morgan Paige’s role has grown. And so has her game. A former all-stater at Marion High School, Paige makes another return to Eastern Iowa on Thursday, when the Badgers face Iowa in a Big Ten women’s basketball contest. Tipoff is 7 p.m. Thursday at Carver-Hawkeye [...]

IOWA CITY — Jaime Printy harbors no ill will. Not to the Wisconsin Badgers. Not to the Kohl Center. Not to fate. The Iowa Hawkeyes head to the Kohl Center on Thursday for a Big Ten women’s basketball game against the Badgers. Tipoff is 7:30 p.m. It’s Printy’s first game back to Madison since tearing [...]

IOWA CITY — Theairra Taylor provided a glimpse into the past, those carefree days before the torn ACLs and all that rehabilitation. Taylor scored a career-high 19 points and sparked an Iowa run at the start of overtime as the Hawkeyes outlasted Ohio State, 77-71, in the Big Ten women’s basketball opener for both teams [...]

IOWA CITY — Jaime Printy grabbed the final rebound of the game and raised a fist toward the Carver-Hawkeye Arena ceiling. Morgan Johnson loped to Printy and embraced her as the final seconds ticked off. Johnson’s words? “We got it.” And, as ugly as it was, they’re not throwing it back. The lowest women’s basketball game [...]

IOWA CITY — Unlike their male counterparts, the women still play for a mythical state basketball championship. The Iowa Hawkeyes took their first step in that direction Saturday afternoon. Morgan Johnson spearheaded a huge advantage in the paint, and the Hawkeyes dumper Northern Iowa, 68-46, before 6,368 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Johnson posted 19 points, 12 [...]

IOWA CITY — It appears that Bethany Doolittle will play alongside Morgan Johnson this season instead of behind her. The Iowa Hawkeyes’ traditional four-out scheme is likely to be replaced at times by a three-guard, two-post set, creating a front line that stands 6-foot-5 and 6-4. “It’s been a little tough to learn a new [...]

Cedar Rapids will not be one of the first Blue Zones demonstration sites in Iowa, but Cedar Falls and Waterloo were announced this morning as among the lucky four. Mason City and Spencer also will receive expert help to transform into Blue Zones Communities, with the goal for residents to live longer, healthier lives. The [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Next season began Thursday for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders. Head coach/general manager Mark Carlson gave a lengthy speech at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena to the players eligible to return for the 2012-13 season. A lengthy speech to a lengthy list of guys. It’s a whopping 16 players who theoretically could be back [...]

  IOWA CITY — The text message came late Monday night. “Hey, it’s Ally. Just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be a Hawkeye!” A few hours and a brief night of sleep later, Ally Disterhoft classified her decision as “a dream come true.” A junior who led Iowa City West to [...]

Iowa’s Aaron White goes for a rebound during the second half of a second round NIT game against Oregon at Matthew Knight Arena at the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR on Sunday, March 18, 2012. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette-KCRG)     Here’s a the gallery and story for the best basketball game I have shot in a [...]