CEDAR FALLS – Sneakers, practice jerseys and equipment clutter the purple and gold locker room. A locker on the left side of the room shows some semblance of organization among the disarray. It’s housed Northern Iowa senior Jacqui Kalin for six years. Inspiration forms the spine of the locker in the form of quotes from [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS – He still has an office in the Iowa football operations building. He still watches ever game. He still wanders into film sessions on Sunday mornings to see what went right or wrong. But there’s something that can’t be replicated in former Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker’s retirement: the postgame smiles. “The thing [...]
continue »The receivers’ routes are crisper. The quarterback’s passes are more accurate. And the running backs are getting through the line cleaner. The 41-38 overtime loss to Green Bay Mar. 30 still turns the stomachs of the Cedar Rapids Titans. The Blizzard handed the Titans their first loss of the season. The defeat also generated intense [...]
continue »The Cedar Rapids Titans boast the Indoor Football League’s only perfect record at 4-0. The Titans’ overall season contains one flaw – a preseason matchup with Green Bay — a 67-47 loss. The Blizzard sit on the opposite end of the spectrum. At 0-4, the only success Green Bay enjoyed came back on Feb. 2 [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Northern Iowa’s postseason began much like the rockiness of its regular season. Sunday the team thought it held a good chance to qualify for the NIT. When ESPN announced the 32 teams without mentioning UNI, Pandora’s Box opened. First, the Panthers were set to host Air Force Tuesday night in the College [...]
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CEDAR FALLS – Ben Jacobson stepped the podium armed with the knowledge that the people he faced were ready to fire questions at him. So why waste any time? “How about we just start with questions today? I bet there are probably some good ones,” the Northern Iowa head coach said – a statement meant [...]
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The NFL began its “Forever Football” campaign with a commercial displaying the game from its infancy with muddied fields and leather helmets to a speedy Devin Hester crossing the goal line at the end of the 60-second spot. It’s geared toward promoting a new focused look at keeping football safe. On the weekend of March [...]
continue »IOWA CITY – Matt Dermody emerged from his car covered in black dust from head to toe. He carried traces of a long day of work within a tire factory into the house with him. The soot from the tires came from his summer job working with the sheet metal worker’s union. It’s not what [...]
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It took a former All-American linebacker in Bloomington, Ind., to notice Barney O’Donnell III. Facing a dual threat quarterback in their next game, the Bloomington Edge’s coaching staff put O’Donnell under center on the scout team. The 6-foot-1 wideout played quarterback at Cedar Rapids Washington and saw stints under center as a junior at St. [...]
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CEDAR FALLS – When Northern Iowa’s senior classed traveled to St. Louis as freshmen, they returned with a Missouri Valley Conference championship trophy. In the following two trips to “Arch Madness” they returned to Cedar Falls with opening round losses. “It’s always tough. Coming in we haven’t been playing our best basketball by any means [...]
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