IOWA CITY — In the two games since Mike Gesell’s foot injury, sophomore Josh Oglesby has started at off-guard and Devyn Marble has played the point. The results have been mixed. Marble has scored 38 points in the two games, while Oglesby is 1-for-9 from the field with seven total points. Senior Eric May has [...]
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Women outnumber men in Iowa’s state government, but earned a lower median salary last year. The new state salary database, released Thursday, includes nearly 60,000 employees with a combined payroll of $3.02 billion for the year that ended June 30. The state employed 32,788 women last year with a median salary of $45,675, compared [...]
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Forget the curse stuff. It might be gallows humor and/or a coping mechanism for the continuous bad fortune that has struck the Iowa running back position, but, no, what plagues this thing is very much of this plane. We’re not going to go back any farther than ’09 or we’d be here all day. Focus [...]
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Former Iowa men’s basketball coach Todd Lickliter will accept the head coaching job at Marian University, an NAIA school in Indianapolis, according to an Indianapolis radio host’s report on Twitter. Lickliter, who was fired by Iowa followed the 2009-10 season, has “an agreement in principle and contract is being finalized” with Marian, according to a [...]
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IOWA CITY — Devyn Marble and Keith Appling are rivals from way back, competing against one another in Detroit-area prep basketball. Marble, Iowa’s sophomore point guard, was an all-stater at Southfield Lathrup. Appling, Michigan State’s sophomore point guard, was a McDonald’s All-American at renowned Pershing High. They were prolific scorers with Marble averaging 24.5 points [...]
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AMES — Iowa State guard Chris Allen is familiar with Iowa basketball. Not Fran McCaffrey’s program, but Todd Lickliter’s. Suffice it to say he welcomes the up-tempo change entering Friday’s 7 p.m. matchup between the Cyclones and the Hawkeyes. “It was horrible,” Allen, a senior transfer who played for Michigan State in four games against [...]
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IOWA CITY — Devon Archie’s Iowa basketball career began with a thud to his clavicle. The senior from Indianapolis lost his first season to a dislocated collarbone. He since has endured leg injuries, a concussion and other inconsistencies in his two previous seasons with the Hawkeyes. But his coaches never heaped pressure upon his shoulders [...]
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IOWA CITY — A University of Iowa vice president was the state’s second-highest paid employee last year, with a hefty retention bonus spiking his pay to nearly $1.3 million. UI head football coach Kirk Ferentz continues to be the state’s top earner at $3.875 million, according to the state salary database released Tuesday. Behind Ferentz [...]
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Former Iowa men’s basketball coach Todd Lickliter will join the Miami (Ohio) coaching staff as an assistant coach, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Lickliter, 56, led the Hawkeyes to a 38-58 record over three seasons before he was fired in March 2010. Iowa owed Lickliter $2.4 million left on his contract. Lickliter previously coached Butler [...]
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IOWA CITY — Cully Payne said leaving the Iowa men’s basketball program was one of the toughest decisions since picking Iowa two years ago. But, he said, it was also necessary to leave. “There was a coaching change. I understand things change, and that some people fit in better with the system than others,” Payne [...]
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