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John Steppe
I am the Iowa Hawkeyes football reporter for The Gazette. I previously covered business and sports enterprise for The Gazette. I’m a born-and-raised Midwesterner and Marquette University alumnus. When I’m not working, I’m likely hiking, eating cheese curds or watching more sports. I invite you to join our Hawkeye Sports Text Update, sign up for my weekly newsletter, or subscribe to my podcast.
Latest Articles by John Steppe
Iowa Hawkeyes Jun. 24, 2022 4:49 pm
University of Iowa deputy athletics director Barbara Burke will retire at the end of her current contract in June 2023, the athletics department announced Friday.
Iowa Football Jun. 24, 2022 1:08 pm
After adding spiral punts to his repertoire in 2021, Iowa punter Tory Taylor wants to cut down on his touchbacks in 2022.
Iowa Football Jun. 24, 2022 8:40 am
Iowa has had its fair share of starting free safeties who arrived on campus as walk-ons, including Derek Pagel, Jake Gervase and Jack Koerner. Cedar Rapids Xavier alum Quinn Schulte could be next.
Iowa Hawkeyes Jun. 23, 2022 6:30 am
Five decades after the passage of Title IX, many challenges remain for women’s sports — both at Iowa and across the country.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 23, 2022 10:34 am
Moment No. 1 in our series of the top 50 moments in Iowa women’s athletics history: On Feb. 3, 1985, 22,157 fans flocked to Carver-Hawkeye Arena and shattered the women’s basketball attendance record.
Iowa Football Jun. 24, 2022 8:40 am
Kirk Ferentz has no plans to restructure his dissolved Iowa football diversity advisory committee, he said in an interview with the Des Moines Register.
Hawk Off the Press Jun. 22, 2022 12:40 pm
Iowa football defensive coordinator Phil Parker is the guest on this week's Hawk Off The Press podcast.
Iowa Football Jun. 22, 2022 1:48 pm
After retiring “Wave on Wave” in April, Iowa will let the kid captains at each game choose the song for the Iowa Wave.
Iowa Football Jun. 22, 2022 12:55 pm
Iowa football has a major recruiting weekend coming up.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 22, 2022 9:35 am
Moment No. 2: Iowa women’s basketball overcomes tragedy on its way to the first and only Final Four in program history.
Iowa Hawkeyes Jun. 21, 2022 10:13 am
Moment No. 3: Iowa’s 1986 field hockey team became the first Iowa women’s team to win an NCAA championship.
Iowa Hawkeyes Jun. 20, 2022 9:27 am
Moment No. 4: The University of Iowa, under leadership of then-president Sandy Boyd, elevated 12 women’s teams to intercollegiate status and hired Christine Grant as the women’s athletics director.
Iowa Hawkeyes Jun. 20, 2022 9:37 am
From the “front lines” of the fight to keep Title IX’s implementation in sports alive to the focus on women’s athletes’ well-being, Christine Grant left quite the legacy both at Iowa and across the country.
Iowa Hawkeyes Jun. 20, 2022 9:26 am
Moment No. 5: For the first time ever, an Iowa women’s team went to a Final Four in 1984.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 18, 2022 11:24 am
Moment No. 6: Lisa Bluder and Megan Gustafson became the first player-coach duo from the Big Ten to sweep the Naismith National Coach of the Year and National Player of the Year awards.