Mike Hlas

The combined worth of the contract extensions San Francisco’s pass-catch combo recently signed? Oh, a mere $341 million.

Oregon smacks five homers, wins 13-4 to finish 3-game sweep in Iowa City to pass Hawkeyes and finish first in the Big Ten standings.

For the fourth-straight season, Iowa opens at 7.5 wins. That paid off in 2023 and 2024. But it doesn’t suggest a College Football Playoff berth is at the end of the 2025 rainbow.

Hawkeyes are in first-place entering 3-game home set with Oregon and need two wins for at least a tie of the Big Ten regular-season championship. One problem: The Ducks are the No. 5 team in the nation.

Hawkeyes Coach Ben McCollum says Stirtz, who has been with him the last three years, will be an NBA first-round draft pick next year.

Lueth, a 6-foot-7 guard from Ames, is going to the Ivy League from the Cedar Rapids community college. That’s after he speaks at Kirkwood’s commencement ceremony later this week.

Armstrong was an Iowa player 36 years ago, then played on three NBA championship teams in Chicago.

The new Iowa men’s basketball coach said there’s no magic in building a winner. McCollum said he looks at the emotional side of players as much or more as their physical attributes.

Seven Big Ten states including No. 14 Iowa -- down eight spots from last year -- are in the U.S. News & World Report top 20. The SEC? Just one.

It was an exhibition, not a competition, but Carver Caitlin was Carver Caitlin and 15,000 fans joined the Indiana Fever in having a great Sunday afternoon.

Former Daily Iowan sports editor Chloe Peterson didn’t miss an Indiana Fever game last season while covering one of the nation’s top sports stories for the Indianapolis Star

Tate Sage, who was recruited to Drake by Ben McCollum, will join McCollum’s Iowa program.

The (very) temporary Iowa Hawkeye offensive lineman from Des Moines is projected high in everybody’s premature 2026 NFL mock drafts.

Fear not, Hawkeye fans. Your new starting quarterback has turned back the Danes before.

The men’s basketball teams of Iowa and Northern Iowa will participate in a tournament in Palm Desert, Calif., in the last week of November.