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Sportswriter, Cedar Rapids Gazette (1995-???), with focus on high schools. Covered women’s basketball before it was cool. Father of two, husband of one.
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The Fox telecast has made one thing obvious:
Iowa is a beautiful place.
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Can you imagine how much national attention Monday's storm would have attracted had it happened on one of the coasts?
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Las Vegas Aces' roster of 12 includes ...
* Kiah Stokes
* Megan Gustafson
* Kate Martin
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Our little flyover state:
Big Ten WBB tournament champions
Big 12 WBB tournament champions
MVC MBB and WBB tournament champions
Six teams (3 men’s, 3 women’s) in the NCAA.
Treasure this.
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Good morning. How’s everyone feeling today?
Remember last summer when everybody was riding Lisa Bluder’s tail for not dipping into the portal?
No Aneesah Morrow. No Lauren Betts.
No matter.
Bluder’s headed to Cleveland, a net draped around her neck.
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The insanity of youth club sports, Chapter 567.
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Didn't Clark, Bluder and Iowa go out of their way to acknowledge Woodard's accomplishments throughout Clark's run to the scoring record?
Hall of Famer Lynette Woodard says her all-time scoring record has NOT been broken by Caitlin Clark
#caitlinclark
#lynettewoodard
#ncaabasketball
#collegebasketball
#womenscollegebasketball
#wfinalfour
#finalfour
#marchmadness
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This is the first time I've thought this all season ...
They might win the whole damn thing.
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Iowa 92, Drake 86 (OT)
Iowa State 88, UNI 85
Two pieces of evidence that WBB does it right by continuing to play Big Four games, even (gasp!) at Des Moines and Cedar Falls.
It’s time, past time, for the men to get back on the train.
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Heading home.
Here's a guarantee ... not going to sift through anybody's old tweets looking for garbage. What a bunch of nonsense.
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That winning 4x200 of UNI ... all four are from Iowa, and they combined for zero Drake titles while in high school.
They are champions now.
How about that??
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BREAKING:
Iowa's Monika Czinano is the 26th player selected in the 2023 WNBA Draft. Picked by the Los Angeles Sparks.
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This is 10-year-old Norah Clancy of Springfield, Ill.
First Hawkeyes game. Taking home Caitlin Clark’s shoes. She’ll go to bed happy tonight.
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How cool is this?
Humboldt's Ashlyn Clark with her home run ball from Senior Night. It was the first homer of Clark's career; the senior played between treatments as she continues to battle Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (photo by
@hark4UI
).
@AshlynClark9
@humboldtHS
@humboldt_csd
@IGHSAU
#iahssb
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If you’ve never seen this, you should.
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To recap women's basketball in Iowa this year ...
Iowa: 2nd Big Ten.
Iowa State: 2nd Big 12.
Drake: 1st MVC.
UNI: 3rd MVC.
Not shabby. Not shabby at all.
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I would bet a week's salary that Hailey Van Lith is not coming to Iowa.
Any takers?
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Fans are encouraged to welcome the University of Iowa women’s basketball team back to Iowa City tomorrow.
The Hawkeyes will arrive at Coralville’s Iowa River Landing at approximately 1:45 p.m.
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Need some good news? How about this?
Maggie McQuillen is home.
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One of the really cool things the NCAA did with the Final Four was to incorporate the D-III and D-II championship games into the weekend.
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She'll be great.
From hoops to helping hands! 🏀 Congrats to
@IowaWBB
#Hawkeyes
star
@GabbieMarshall
on her next slam dunk move to UNC for a Master's in
#OccupationalTherapy
! 🎓
Best of luck on this exciting journey, Gabbie! Your skills will be perfect for our profession!
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Usually the Carver security lets people in 60 minutes before tip. Not tonight. More like 90 minutes.
Gate person: "The women draw better than the men, so we're letting them in sooner."
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WBB programs with multiple ESPN top-100 commits for 2024:
Iowa 4
UConn 2
Georgia 2
Maryland 2
Miami 2
Michigan 2
Michigan State 2
North Carolina 2
Ohio State 2
Stanford 2
UCLA 2
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Even as a curmudgeonous sportswriter, I can't help but feel overwhelming joy for Kate Martin tonight.
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I know I've said it before, but ...
Female athletes in this state are so fortunate compared to their counterparts in most other areas of the nation.
That's the legacy of Christine Grant. And E. Wayne Cooley.
May their efforts never, ever be forgotten.
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Heartfelt kudos to the person that smelled gas at a relative’s house at 4 AM today and called the authorities, who discovered a gas leak.
That person was a Gazette carrier.
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A lot of you aren't going to want to hear this.
After listening to the LSU players, you're going to find them (gasp) extremely likeable.
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This is absolutely the response Iowa should have made.
I gratefully acknowledge the First Lady’s sentiments, but a day at the White House should belong solely to the champion, LSU and Coach Mulkey. We would welcome the First Lady and President to come to Iowa’s “House” – Carver Hawkeye Arena — any time!
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BREAKING women's basketball news:
ESPN's College GameDay is coming to Iowa City on Feb. 26 for Indiana-Iowa.
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Women's basketball, a profile:
She is a four-year, hard-nosed, soft-hearted captain.
The Glue.
Someday, a home-run hire as a coach.
And in her sixth season at Iowa, Kate Martin is in the midst of ‘the best times of my life.’
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10 Iowa WBB players named winter academic all-Big Ten (enrolled fulltime, min. 12 months, cumulative GPA of 3.0+).
Sydney Affolter
Caitlin Clark
Molly Davis
A.J. Ediger
Kylie Feuerbach
Sharon Goodman (4.0 GPA)
Gabbie Marshall
Kate Martin
Taylor McCabe
Addison O’Grady
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Hawkeyes saluting loved ones on the back of their pink uniforms.
Sharon Goodman's uniform says MOMMA, and if that doesn't crush you ...
Her mother, Connie Goodman, died Feb. 10, 2020, after a four-year battle with cancer. She was 58.
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Drake Relays feature:
Due to a genetic condition, Solon's
@ErinKerkhoff
has 20/400 vision. She'll likely never drive a car. When she talks to you, she can't seen your facial features.
On the track, she's one of the state's elite long sprinters.
#iahstrk
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For the “high school sports in Iowa are a failure” crowd.
In the latest Murphy's Law on how Iowa high school teams are doing during a pandemic,
@MurphyKeith
checks on girls fall sports.
Assist to
@IGHSAU
.
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Another TV record, blasted out of the water.
South Carolina-Iowa drew 18.7 million viewers. Peaked at 24 million.
Most-watched basketball game (including MBB and NBA) since 2019.
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NCAA women's basketball tournament:
As the Hawkeyes keep winning, Megan Gustafson keeps setting her alarm and watching from Greece.
What the 2019 national player of the year said about Monika Czinano, Caitlin Clark and more.
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Just off phone with Lucy Olsen.
She experienced the first tornado warning of her life yesterday in Iowa City.
Story will be updated with her comments soon.
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Spring-sporters:
I'm crushed for you. I know how hard some of you worked to stay in shape with a glimmer of hope that there would be some semblance of a season.
Will be my first spring with no Drake Stadium visit since 1996.
Sad for me.
More sad for you.
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What do you think? 10 million viewers for Iowa-LSU on Monday night?
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It's 12 hours, 37 minutes by car from Cedar Rapids to American Airlines Center in Dallas, if you're curious.
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Maybe it was just wishful thinking, but I really believed Mollie would be found alive. What a sad ending.
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It's a service anniversary today.
Grateful for 25 years at The Gazette. Dream job then, dream job now.
Can't even begin to count the impactful people I've met along the way.
As always, thanks for reading, and thanks for following.
Here's hoping the best days are still ahead.
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Iowa's Jan Jensen was named the 2023 Division I Assistant Coach of the Year by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association presented by Aflac today.
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Iowa's Sharon Goodman, is the recipient of the Elite 90 award for the 2024 NCAA Division-I Women’s Basketball Championship for the second year in a row.
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Can’t help but feel good for Gabbie Marshall for rediscovering her mojo the last few weeks.
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Wondering what Gabbie Marshall's NIL opportunities are now after Katie Abrahamson-Henderson's comments about her eyes ...
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And Megan Gustafson exits for the final time. We have all witnessed greatness for the last 4 years.
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Watch this. Then watch it again.
Pulled out my phone yesterday for final seconds of
@CentralLyon
and
@PellaChristian
and this fell into my lap. In case you thought sportsmanship is dead, it’s not.
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Gabbie Marshall did not participate in interviews today. She has a cold and her voice is pretty much shot.
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Holy Cross' Kaitlyn Flanagan, on coming to Iowa City for the NCAA tournament:
"When we saw that we were coming here, we freaked out because we have seen what Iowa has done for women’s basketball. You can truly feel the energy and the respect the fans have for the sport."
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Email from a reader:
“Iowa needs taller, more athletic players … needs to recruit better.”
Names three players, misspells all of them.
“You need to re-evaluate your thinking of the future of this team.”
Weren’t they NCAA runners-up?
Simply exhausting.
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So today is National Girls & Women In Sports Day.
It's an honor and a privilege to watch you compete and to tell your stories.
Today, and every day.
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Quite possibly, in the words of Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was.
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BREAKING:
Iowa's Caitlin Clark is the Associated Press women's basketball player of the year.
The honor comes a day after Clark was awarded the Naismith.
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Looking back a little more than a week ... how significant does Iowa's win over South Carolina in the Final Four look now?
The Gamecocks went 1-8-10 in the WNBA Draft.
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Iowa State now has three ESPN top-60 recruits in the Class of 2023.
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The legacy of the 2022-23 Hawkeyes:
Big Ten tournament champions.
NCAA national runners-up.
Wildly entertaining.
Adored.
A look back at an unforgettable season, and a peek at 2023-24:
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Experienced brief nirvana last night on the infield at Linn-Mar Stadium.
70 degrees and no wind at dusk. Closed my eyes for maybe 20 seconds and listened to the kids encouraging their teammates, PA in the background.
The rhythm of track and field.
It was … perfect.
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All-tournament:
Frida Formann (Colorado)
Hailey Van Lith (Louisville)
Monika Czinano (Iowa)
McKenna Warnock (Iowa)
Most outstanding player: Caitlin Clark (Iowa)
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Took a dive crossing a street on a run. Wish it was a more heroic story than that.
Some would say I’ve never looked better.
Thanks to the kind Indy folks who drove me back to the hotel.
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Congratulations, Iowa high school girls wrestlers. I am thrilled for you.
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This may sound radical, but ...
My proposal to overhaul the 2020-21 Iowa high school sports calendar. Fall sports to spring. Spring sports to fall.
A 7-game football schedule, with Week 1 on March 19. Championship games in the Dome, June 3-4.
Read on:
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If you're a baseball/softball player in Iowa, this is promising news:
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To the author who bothered to send a letter bashing an area high school athlete, and didn’t have the guts to sign it:
Just go away.
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Never did post this Sunday, so I will now.
It got so loud at Carver during Clark introduction, it drowned out the PA Guy.
And that’s saying something.
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Iowa's game with UConn drew an average of 14.2 million viewers Friday night, with a peak of 17 million.
The record just keeps falling.
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The state of Iowa has 3 women's teams in the RPI top 16. No other state has more than one.
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