IOWA CITY — The Iowa men’s basketball team will wear black commemorative patches with gold lettering “CMS 40″ on Jan. 19 to mark the 20th anniversary of former Hawkeye star Chris Street’s death. Iowa will play border rival Wisconsin that night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. BTN will televise the 7 p.m. game, and only a few tickets [...]
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IOWA CITY — Recent NCAA rules changes regarding scholarships have Iowa athletics officials taking a “wait-and-see” approach before implementation begins next year, Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta said Thursday. Last week, the NCAA’s board of directors approved legislation that allows individual schools to increase scholarships to the full cost of attendance up to $2,000 a [...]
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IOWA CITY — Phil Haddy has been everywhere, man, like an old Johnny Cash song. But after 41 years of serving in Iowa’s sports information department, it’s time for him to exit stage left. This is Haddy’s final football season with the Hawkeyes. He started in 1971 promoting Frank Lauterbur’s football program. He’s withstood the down years [...]
continue »Here are some more details about the sponsorship promotion between the Iowa Lottery and athletics departments at Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa: Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer said the promotion officially is called ”The Great State Tailgate.” The promotion begins Monday with $2 instant scratch game. The non-winning tickets have codes that can be entered on the [...]
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IOWA CITY — More than four years after mutually severing ties, University of Iowa athletics and Hawkeye Sports Properties agreed to a one-year sponsorship with the Iowa Lottery this summer. In an Iowa Lottery fall campaign called “The Great American Tailgate,” Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa fans can drop off non-winning tickets at the schools’ [...]
continue »IOWA CITY — University of Iowa President Sally Mason emphasized the need for strong oversight by the Presidential Committee of Athletics in light of several scandals involving recent college athletics programs. “I think it’s safe to say the landscape out there in college athletics is a bumpy one,” Mason told the advisory board Thursday afternoon. [...]
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IOWA CITY — Iowa and Iowa State athletics departments each will take projects to the state Board of Regents next week with plans to add new facilities. Iowa State will ask Regents on Wedneday to approve the schematic design and project budget for a $20.6 million football practice facility that would consolidate all football operations. The [...]
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IOWA CITY — The ongoing disconnect between the University of Iowa Athletics Department and Presidential Committee on Athletics boiled over in public fashion Tuesday afternoon. The proposed construction of an 8,000 square-foot indoor golf training facility served as the impetus for a heated discussion over procedures at the PCA’s monthly meeting. PCA members bemoaned the [...]
continue »Iowa and Northern Iowa’s athletics departments will decrease their budgets for the 2010 fiscal year, according to figures submitted to the state Board of Regents. The state Regents will meet Wednesday in Cedar Falls and review each school’s budgetary plans. Iowa projects a 1 percent decrease from 2009 to $65.6 million, a reduction of about [...]
continue »IOWA CITY — Iowa battered South Carolina in the Outback Bowl and won the budget battle, too. Iowa spent about $1.52 million during its week-long trip to the Tampa, Fla., Outback Bowl in late December and early January. That was about $130,000 under the $1.65 million budget provided by the Big Ten Conference. “At the [...]
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