IOWA CITY, Iowa – Central Michigan represents the second Mid-American Conference opponent Iowa will play this season. But the Chippewas might as well be from a different planet than the Hawkeyes’ first MAC foe Northern Illinois. The Huskies have strung together back-to-back 11 win seasons. They boasted the nation’s longest win streak. It’s only flaw [...]

IOWA CITY – The last time Northern Iowa made a trip to Kinnick Stadium, David Johnson was a guest of Iowa. The then-Clinton tailback attended the instant classic between UNI and Iowa as a recruit for the Hawkeyes. When an offer never came to play for Kirk Ferentz he took his talents to Cedar Falls. [...]

  Here’s all Iowa State has to do to get to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament: 1. Defeat the defending national-champion, Connecticut. 2. Beat the No. 1-seed in the entire bracket, Kentucky. In Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center. But teams that lost 10 or more games can’t be too choosy. No matter [...]

Matthew Schramm has a lot of Hawkeye gear but deciding what to wear on Saturday wasn’t hard. Three weeks ago, Schramm’s mom said, he laid out his white Hawkeye football jersey in preparation for Saturday — white would be the best to get autographs from University of Iowa football players. Schramm and about 100 other [...]

A group of about 30 is gathering on the University of Iowa campus to demonstrate against an expected 5 percent tuition increase next year. “These cuts will…ultimately result in the errosion of our quality of education,” student body President John Rigby said.