Mike Hlas

Iowa redshirt freshman wide receiver Jarriett Buie knows if you power anything to zero, it’s a 1.

The Olympics reinforced that basketball not only is enjoyed world-wide, but is played at a new, higher level globally than ever before.

Never has an Iowa defense been this experienced, and seldom has it had as many heralded returning players.

Former Iowa wrestler Spencer Lee has advanced to the men’s freestyle 57 kg gold-medal match at the Paris Olympics. The 3-time NCAA champion won by technical fall in the quarterfinals and semifinals Thursday after a tight opening-round triumph.

The Iowa men’s basketball team will play Washington State in Moline, Ill., on Nov. 15. It’s the Hawkeyes’ first game in Moline since 1998.

The 44-year-old from Sioux City took a 4-0 American Association record with him to Kansas City this week, where he was slated to pitch again Tuesday night.

Five other Big Ten teams are ranked, but Hawkeyes face Ohio State and avoid the other four.

The season starts -- OMG! -- this month. Here are some nonessential things to know about Iowa as the days and hours and minutes and seconds tick away until kickoff.

Former Hawkeye Megan Gustafson again had a game-high scoring total as Spain again had a one-point victory, and guaranteed itself a spot in the Olympic quarterfinals.

Jan Jensen was a new Iowa assistant coach at Iowa in 2000 when Randi Henderson was a senior player. Twenty-four years later, the two native Iowans have reunited. Henderson is a new Hawkeyes assistant coach for new head coach Jensen.

Former Iowa basketball player Joe Wieskamp will play in Australia next season. Wieskamp spent three years in the NBA and NBA G League after leaving Iowa in 2021.

Iowa City West senior-to-be Jack McCaffery has verbally committed to play basketball at Butler University in 2025. Months after Patrick McCaffery’s playing career ends at Butler, his younger brother will join the Big East program.

Two former Iowa State men’s basketball teammates meet on opposite teams Wednesday at the Olympics in Paris. Marial Shayok will be on the South Sudan team that will try to throw a second scare into Tyrese Haliburton’s United States squad within two weeks.

Fourteen years after their other state baseball championship, another Bret Hoyer-coached Cedar Rapids Kennedy baseball team finishes off another season of excellence with the title trophy.

Veterans Memorial Stadium has what the bigger schools’ Iowa high school state baseball tournaments need and in all the right sizes.