Mike Hlas

Ricky Stanzi continues to wait to throw his first pass in a professional football regular-season game, but now he does so in Canada.Stanzi, whose last game at quarterback for Iowa was the Hawkeyes? Insight Bowl win over Missouri, is the No. 3 quarterback for the Canadian Football League?s Calgary Stampeders.Stanzi was signed by Calgary this spring. He had spent most of the last six years in the NFL, but had ...

How good to you have to be to make an All-America basketball team?Really, really, really good.Associated Press? 65 voters didn?t have a place for Iowa State?s Monte Morris on its three honor squads, covering 15 players. Or Iowa?s Peter Jok, who led the Big Ten in scoring over the entire season.It wasn?t as if Morris played in a vacuum. He had commentators like Fran Fraschilla pounding the drum for him on his ...

NIT marches on, without IowaRemember the NIT?That?s the basketball tournament Iowa was in until early Sunday evening. It was fun while it lasted.There was a sellout crowd of 15,400 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena Sunday for TCU-Iowa, which should have freaked out TCU but instead only made it play better, and the Horned Frogs won in overtime.TCU had been to Kansas and Iowa State, so it was battle-tested in front of ...

Iowa has winning left to do if it is to be admitted into the NCAA men?s basketball tournament.Just how much winning, who knows?But it obviously has to start Thursday against Indiana. Lose to the 17-14 Hoosiers in Washington at the Big Ten tournament, and it?s wait until Sunday night to see when and where the Hawkeyes start NIT play.Iowa went 10-8 in the Big Ten and is 18-13 overall. Since the conference went ...