The Sports Illustrated story on Iowa is here (via SI's Web site, of course)

Albert Chen's piece on the Iowa football team in this week's Sports Illustrated won't break any new ground for Hawkeye fans, but it's a good read and an accurate portrait of the squad for the rest of North America to learn from and enjoy.

A passage I liked:

Only an hour earlier this scene was unimaginable. Only an hour earlier Hawkeyes junior quarterback Ricky Stanzi sat alone on the sideline, his head down. Iowa trailed by 10 points as the third quarter wound down, and Stanzi's stat line read: 10 of 23, 160 yards, five interceptions.

During the TV timeout Iowa punter Ryan Donahue walked over to his quarterback, leaned down and said, "Ready for the greatest quarter of your life?"

Stanzi, who with four picks had just experienced the worst quarter of his life, looked up and replied, "Absolutely."

For the entire "Good And Lucky" piece on Sports Illustrated's Web site,

click here.