John Steppe

Iowa tight end Luke Lachey does not have any injury designation on the pregame availability report, suggesting the Hawkeyes’ tight end should be good to go against UCLA.

Zach Ortwerth did not start playing competitive football since his freshman year of high school. Five years later, he is on a rapid ascent in Iowa’s already-talented tight ends room.

Iowa appears to be the better team on paper in this matchup, but one also would have said that about Rutgers and Nebraska before their losses to the Bruins.

The Hawkeyes did not always make it look easy, but they did enough to walk away with a 91-73 season-opening win over Northern Illinois.

Iowa will be playing its first regular-season game two-plus time zones away since its 2010 loss at Arizona.

Iowa women’s basketball’s position battle at center between Addison O’Grady and Ava Heiden is “neck-and-neck” as the Hawkeyes begin their 2024-25 season.

After an up-and-down month of October, Iowa football appears to be once again playing its best football in the month of November.

Iowa tight end Luke Lachey “has a chance” of playing in the Hawkeyes’ game against UCLA on Friday after missing last week’s game with an injury, head coach Kirk Ferentz said in his Tuesday news conference.

UCLA — Iowa’s Week 11 opponent — is coming off back-to-back road wins against Rutgers and Nebraska.

Iowa quarterback Cade McNamara and tight end Luke Lachey are not listed on the Hawkeyes’ depth chart ahead of Friday’s game at UCLA as they continue to recover from injuries.

Iowa linebacker Nick Jackson, playing in his 69th game of his college career, finally got his first collegiate interception against Wisconsin. He is quite proud of his previous pick, which was in peewee football against a future NFL star.

Iowa women’s basketball guard Sydney Affolter is “ahead of schedule” in her recovery from a knee procedure earlier this fall, head coach Jan Jensen told reporters on Monday.

In a series where the team with more rushing yards had won the previous 12 games, there was no denying Iowa football’s dominance over Wisconsin on the ground.

Indiana and SMU were among the teams to see significant jumps on John Steppe’s AP ballot following the Week 10 slate of games.

The Kenny Arnold Classic will be a four-team round-robin-format tournament featuring Iowa, Texas A&M Commerce, Southern and South Dakota. The games will be this week and next week.