Mike Hlas

It was made official Tuesday. Former Iowa National Player of the Year center Megan Gustafson was named to Spain’s Olympic women’s basketball team that will start play in Paris on July 28.

At 25 with quite an amateur pedigree, Davis Thompson left no doubt Sunday afternoon about who was going to win the John Deere Classic.

Megan Gustafson, the 2019 National Player of the Year at Iowa, is on a WNBA juggernaut in Las Vegas, and has a good chance of playing for Spain in this month’s Olympics.

Caitlin Clark and her Indiana Fever endured 88-69 loss to reigning-champion Las Vegas Aces, but the rookie guard from Iowa got the news she’ll play in WNBA July 20 All-Star game against the U.S. Olympic team.

Kate Martin wasted no time earning a spot in the two-time defending WNBA championship Las Vegas Aces’ rotation on a team loaded with talent.

Luka Garza, the consensus men’s basketball National Player of the Year as an Iowa senior in 2021, has signed a two-year contract with the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves. He could have opted for free agency.

The 2023 Iowa PGA Player of the Year will try to compete with some of the world’s best at the Quad Cities’ PGA Tour event

It is a far, far better thing to play in the Midwest League than to have a tibial stress fracture or be stuck in a pandemic.

The 2023-24 college athletics season is officially over, and Iowa State had its second-best finish ever in the Division I Learfield Directors’ Cup standings. Iowa dropped 16 spots from last year

Iowa had a streak of NCAA tournament appearances snapped last season, but Fran McCaffery’s Hawkeyes could jump back in the Top 25 picture quicker than some may think.

Senior-to-be defensive stalwart Deontae Craig is a military school graduate and an Iowa team leader who “breaks down doors” in a good way.

Daniel Suarez was ninth in the Iowa Corn 350 Sunday. On Tuesday, he becomes an American citizen.

After its first winter on Netflix, NASCAR’s Cup Series visits Newton’s Iowa Speedway for the first time. It’s a really big show.

The Iowa Hawkeyes have a one-race partnership with the NASCAR Cup Series, at Sunday’s inaugural Iowa Corn 350 in Newton. Corey LaJoie will drive with the TigerHawk adorned on his hood.

Molly Davis, who played the last two seasons for the Iowa women’s basketball team, has joined the University of Evansville women’s basketball coaching staff as a graduate assistant.