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Friday is Iowa Day on the BTN 1

Iowa Day this Friday on the Big Ten Network. Set your DVRs. We are squarely in the Horse Latitudes. Release from the BTN: School Days – Iowa Tomorrow, BTN will continue “School Days” with a complete day of Hawkeye-only programming. The schedule will feature six episodes of the Big Ten’s Greatest Games, including Iowa’s dramatic [...]

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Get to know Fox Sports 1: It’s here to stay

The cable television jokes are plentiful today. Iowa State announced its annual football game against Iowa will be staged at 5 p.m. Sept. 14 and held on Fox Sports 1. Right now, Fox Sports 1 (soon known by the acronym FS1) is Speed Channel. Immediate thoughts have Iowa-Iowa State football following a trucks race. But [...]

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The Iowa Hawkeyes take the field for their NCAA college football game against Penn State at Kinnick Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in Iowa City, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek,/The Gazette-KCRG)

BTN has its most night football games, no Iowa

First time since the 2008 season that Iowa is shut out of prime time 7

We had Kirk Ferentz on “On Iowa Live” last Monday night. He told us he didn’t believe Iowa had any night games in the 2013 season. He’s a coach and they’re busy and sometimes they miss details like night games. They’re more interested in the “game” part of night game. So, I tweeted: Sounds like [...]

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Chris Street's jersey covers a chair on the Iowa bench during the second half against Wisconsin on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa.  (Brian Ray/The Gazette-KCRG)

BTN’s ‘The Journey’ to feature segment on Street

IOWA CITY — BTN will devote about 10 minutes of its next segment of ‘The Journey” to the story of former Iowa basketball player Chris Street, who was killed in a car accident 20 years ago. A BTN television crew spent part of last week at the Street household in central Iowa talking with Street’s parents, [...]

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Big Ten Network color analyst  Jim Jackson (left) and last-minute replacement play by play announcer Brian Barnhart talk on camera coming out of a break during the Iowa Men's Basketball game against Michigan Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.  (Brian Ray/The Gazette)

BTN in growth mode as 5th birthday approaches 2

IOWA CITY — Darian Cooper received more than a dozen high-major scholarship offers as a prep at Maryland’s renowned DeMatha Catholic. Cooper, then a top defensive tackle prospect and now a red-shirt freshman at Iowa, wanted to compare the schools and he found one mechanism to do so: the Big Ten Network. “I remember it [...]

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BTN visit to Iowa City to air Aug. 9

From the Big Ten Network: ‘Big Ten Football Preview Tour’ to Journey through Big Ten Country BTN to air 60-minute preview shows from each campus beginning Aug. 9   CHICAGO – If it’s August, it must be time for the Big Ten Football Preview Tour. For the sixth straight year, Dave Revsine, Gerry DiNardo and [...]

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Iowa Day No. 2 on Big Ten Network

Thursday is all-Iowa all day long 6

This one is June 28 and is heavily wrestling-centric with a large dose of Dan Gable. He was in the Olympics, you know. Iowa’s final one is July 19. I’m predicting some football, maybe? This from BTN: School Days – Iowa Hope all is well and you’re enjoying the beginning of summer. On June 28 [...]

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Iowa Day tomorrow on BTN

  Got an e-mail from the Big Ten Network when I was no vacation. It’s Iowa Day tomorrow. From BTN: “On June 6 (tomorrow), the Big Ten Network will air the first of this summer’s three full days of Iowa programming as a part of “School Days.” Two episodes of the Big Ten Greatest Games, [...]

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Caption: Big Ten Network commentator Mickey York gets some help taking off his headphones from freelance audio technician Dave Miller of Johnston after a live update for the network prior to Iowa's game against Syracuse Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007 outside of Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. (Gazette file)

Follow BTN’s spring scrimmage at KCRG.com

Make sure to check the weather before heading out the door 1

  I’ve been calling it a “spring scrimmage.” Iowa doesn’t play a game, so that rules out “game.” I think scrimmage covers it. (UI sports info or someone did say they would play one timed quarter on Saturday.) Tornadoes are in the forecast. You can see KCRG’s weather radar here. You can see KCRG’s weather [...]

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Big Ten Network crew members Dashel Ridgley (left) and Kevin Miller (right) hang a Big Ten Network banner prior to the Iowa Men's Basketball game against Michigan Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. (Brian Ray/The Gazette)

Hawkeyes on BTN tonight 2

Yes, the Big Ten Network visits are only a half hour this year. I watched the Wisconsin and Minnesota previews. Didn’t wake up early enough this morning to catch the latest. I think the half-hour show paces very well, but the editing room ate up a lot of the football nerdiness that made the show [...]

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