Mike Hlas

Hawkeyes spring football once was overshadowed by war and everything else. Now, college football is a military industrial complex of its own with a 24/7/365 news cycle.

Some suggested Lauren Betts might entertain transferring to Iowa. But Tuesday, Betts announced on Instagram that she was headed to UCLA.

Ben Krikke, a 6-foot-9 senior forward, is transferring from Valparaiso to Iowa. He brings experience and shooting touch to the Hawkeyes.

The Iowa women’s basketball team completed a Weekend Update joke, and LSU’s Angel Reese got her own impersonator on Saturday Night Live.

Murray was 3rd-team All-America, averaged over 20 points a game for Hawkeyes.

Iowa’s loss to LSU in the national-title game topped a lot more sporting events than just previous women’s basketball championships.

What we know about the 2023-24 Iowa women’s basketball team: It will be really good, and it will be really fun.

Iowa got outplayed by LSU in the national championship game, and that’s that. But it doesn’t even begin to put any shade on such a sunny season.

Caitlin Clark said she hopes Taylor Swift will attend the Iowa women’s basketball team’s title game vs. LSU Sunday afternoon before her concert in Arlington Sunday night.

Lisa Bluder has gone from driving a team van at St. Ambrose to piloting Iowa to Sunday’s national-championship game, with her feet on the ground the whole time.

National Player of the Year Caitlin Clark played like that and more as the Hawkeye women get their biggest win ever, over goliath South Carolina in national semifinal.

T-shirt-wearing Iowa fans stuffed a Ritz-Carlton ballroom five hours before their women’s basketball team’s Final Four game Friday.

Iowa coaches Lisa Bluder and Jan Jensen never stopped pounding away after arriving 23 years ago, and here they are in the national semifinals.

Cedar Rapids’ Keegan Murray has an NBA rookie record 188 3-pointers for a Sacramento Kings team headed for the playoffs for the first time since 2006.

Iowa’s national semifinal Friday against No. 1 South Carolina should produce a whopper of a rating for ESPN.