Jewel Hampton News

Terrelle Pryor carries the ball Saturday during Ohio State's 24-7 victory at Penn State.

The Iowa football team has missed Shonn Greene all season, but it didn't have to pay for his absence with a loss until Saturday.

Ricky Stanzi's injured ankle may keep him out of the rest of Iowa's regular-season games.

Is anyone else tired of AP writers repetitively playing the "lucky" card to discount Iowa's accomplishments this year, as if somehow, Iowa being lucky justifies them lowering Iowa's AP Ranking while the Harris and Coaches poll have raised Iowa's ranking? By promoting teams with supposedly superior offenses , that are playing clearly inferior teams ...

Northwestern enters this week's game against Iowa as a huge underdog, but I personally don't see why the spread is over two touchdowns.

The Iowa Hawkeyes have lost more at the running back position in a year's time than any other team I have ever seen.

Easy for me to say this, but Adam Robinson and Dace Richardson should try to look on the bright side because in both of their cases there is one.

When you've covered the Iowa football team for as long as Bob Brooks has, which is about 65 years and counting, what he says carries a lot of weight.

Iowa City, Ia. - Don't bet on a blowout. Oddsmakers have tabbed Iowa's football team as a 17-point favorite, but recent results suggest Saturday's 11 a.m. tussle with Indiana will have plenty of tense moments.

Last October, Brandon Wegher was starring for Bishop Heelan High in Sioux City, Iowa, and dreaming of leading the Crusaders to the state title game.

Kirk Ferentz was wrapping up his weekly news conference Tuesday when Iowa sports information director Phil Haddy popped in to tell reporters that running back Adam Robinson was available briefly for interviews.

Dace Richardson and Brett Greenwood were carted to the locker room, Adam Robinson left Spartan Stadium on crutches and Colin Sandeman was escorted to the sidelines by Iowa's training staff.

Posted on Oct 20, 2009 by Marc Morehouse . Good to go A - Wide receiver Marvin McNutt and running back Brandon Wegher should be good to go for Saturday's game at Michigan State, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said Tuesday.

Posted on Oct 23, 2009 by Mike Hlas . This isn't telling you anything you don't already know, but USA Today has a story on why the 2009 Iowa football team has surpassed the 2008 squad.

The Iowa medical staff cleared tight end Tony Moeaki to play earlier this season, but that doesn't mean coach Kirk Ferentz gave him a clean bill of health.

Physical, smash-mouth football. Even most of the Big Ten has gotten away from that kind of traditional football.

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz leads the best team in the Big Ten. But Kirk Ferentz and his players don't care about that right now.

What's supposed to make him miserable is giving Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz pleasure.

With the early departure of Shonn Greene to the National Football League, sophomore Jewel Hampton was poised to be the No.1 tailback.

There is so much that I don't understand; including everything about algebra, almost everything about home repair and the reaction to Saturday's 30-28 victory over Michigan at Kinnick Stadium.