Iowa's Season at a Glance
garnetandblackattack.com 12/19/2008 — Week One: Maine The Hawkeyes win easily over an FCS cupcake. Week Two: Florida International Another easy win against the team best known for brawling with Miami. Week Three: Iowa State The Hawkeyes overcome two interceptions and a 5-14 ...

So, About Those Empty Seats...
blackheartgoldpants.com 1/28/2009 — Welcome to Carver-Hawkeye Arena for Brown Chair Costume Night! ( Liz Martin/The Gazette) There is just over a month left in basketball season, and attendance is down.  Way down.  As in, worst season in history down.  Nine years ...

Signing Day Rodeo, Part One: The Headliners
blackheartgoldpants.com 2/4/2009 — We've said it before: When it comes to recruiting, caring is creepy .  With that said, it's National Signing Day, and ignoring recruiting on Signing Day is a violation of the Fourth Blogmandment (it's the one between "Thou Shalt Demand the ...

The Greene Party
blackheartgoldpants.com 12/11/2008 — Every Iowa day from December to March cold, bleak, and gray.  The term "day job" takes on a literate meaning; most people drive to work at dawn and leave well after dusk.  A foot of snow covers the freshly-harvested fields by Christmas, ...

HATE BOWL: Third Quarter
blackheartgoldpants.com 11/21/2008 — Unbeknownst to most readers, the real Iowa-Minnesota football game won't be at the Metrodome this weekend; it has already been played . After an agreement by Governors Chet Culver and Tim Pawlenty, the two states agreed to take part in an epic ...

One of Worst Iowa Basketball Droughts in 60 Years
mikegh.wordpress.com 1/21/2009 — (Note to readers: I changed the title of this post because one of you good e-mailers politely let me know Iowa had a 3-game stretch that produced just 147 points in the 1983-84 season. It’s been corrected in the words that follow, too, and I ...

Iowa's Problem Is Their... Defense?
blackheartgoldpants.com 2/25/2009 — The popular media narrative these days is that Iowa's tactic to staying in the close games is crushing defense. And that seems to make sense, given that the Hawkeyes give up fewer than 60 points a game, ranking third in the Big Ten . One slight, nagging problem: their defense isn't nearly ...

Where are they now? Acie Earl
hawkeyesportsnews.com 2/16/2009 — Acie Earl played center for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1988-93. Earl came to Iowa from Moline High School as a key recruit for Dr. Tom Davis, ranked in the top 80 nationally by Street-Smith’s Magazine. After redshirting his first year at Iowa, Acie ...

Hate Bowl : Second Quarter
thedailygopher.com 11/19/2008 — Unbeknownst to most readers, the real Iowa-Minnesota football game won't be at the Metrodome this weekend; it has already been played . After an agreement by Governors Chet Culver and Tim Pawlenty, the two states agreed to take part in an epic ...

Comparing South Carolina and Iowa: The OL
garnetandblackattack.com 12/31/2008 — Iowa's offensive line doing what it does. South Carolina's offensive line doing what it does . I shouldn't be so hard on our line; I really shouldn't. They've played much better down the stretch and had little to do with our ...

Tim Tebow Will Do NOTHING in the NFL — Bleacher Report - College Football 1/14/2009
Tim Tebow—man among boys.   It’s said every time, in just about every imaginable way possible. Tim Tebow is a great athlete, a scholar, and most assuredly a leader. The media have proclaimed him their most recent darling.  ...

Sources: SC's Sanchez To Enter Draft — Bleacher Report - College Football 1/15/2009
Hard to believe, but after a year of inconsistency but a brilliant Rose Bowl performance, USC quarterback Mark Sanchez will be forgoing his senior year and entering the NFL draft, according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen. Shelley Smith of ESPN, however, ...

A Florida Gators Fan Spends the Weekend in Berkeley — Bleacher Report - College Football 1/15/2009
Editor's note: This article was written in December 2007. I’ve been privileged to have grown up in the Southeast US, where people really understand football. They don’t just understand it, they live it. It affects how the rest of ...

Changing Of The Guard (Part Two) — Bleacher Report - College Football 1/14/2009
Marlon Brown WR :  Considering Florida, Tennessee, LSU, Georgia, Ohio State Marlon is a very physical wideout with excellent hands. At 6-foot-5, he is a red zone threat and in my opinion has good speed to run from defenders. Florida is ...

The Debate: Urban Meyer vs. Nick Saban — Bleacher Report - College Football 1/14/2009
Editors note: This article was written on the eve of the 2008 SEC championship game. A couple of weeks ago, one of my Arkansas-fan friends asked me if I thought Urban Meyer or Nick Saban was the better coach.  There are some  ...