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USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Iowa football carrying top 10 offensive, defensive line talent into 2025
Iowa football carrying top 10 offensive, defensive line talent into 2025 While the Iowa Hawkeyes are known for their defensive prowess year in and year out, their offensive output has been on a steady path of producing some top talent. Known for tight ends, the Hawkeyes also pump out top offensive line talent that is often making its way to the NFL and carving out long careers. That case remains the same for the 2025 season as the Hawkeyes are boasting top 10 talent in the trenches on both sides of the ball. Entering 2025, Pro Football Focus has three Iowa Hawkeyes ranked in the top 10 of their respective positions along the offensive and defensive lines. Offensively, Logan Jones is rated as the No. 4 interior offensive lineman in 2025 and the best Power Four center, while Gennings Dunker comes in as the No. 6 offensive tackle in all of college football. On defense, Aaron Graves finds himself as the No. 6 defensive tackle in America. Dunker and Jones, two of Iowa's anchors along the offensive line, are looking to build off a 2024 season that saw them pave the way for running back Kaleb Jones to rewrite part of the Hawkeyes' rushing record books. On defense, Aaron Graves is hoping to build upon three strong years with the Hawkeyes. The Iowa native from Southeast Valley High School and Dayton, Iowa, has played in 39 games with 13 starts while registering 85 tackles, 18.5 tackles for loss, 11.5 sacks, and four forced fumbles. Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions. Follow Riley on X: @rileydonald
Washington Post
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
With an injured Caitlin Clark watching, young Mystics take apart Fever
BALTIMORE — They came dressed in pristine No. 22 Indiana Fever jerseys or more faded Iowa Hawkeyes versions, the mere opportunity for a glimpse of Caitlin Clark in street clothes enough to draw legions of her fans to downtown Baltimore on a gloomy, rainy night. Many, though, were dressed conspicuously as empty seats, that same calculus — Fever vs. the Washington Mystics, with Clark sidelined by injury — not enough to compel them to show up.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Business
- Fox News
Indiana Fever suffer worst loss of the season in Caitlin Clark's first missed game of career
One may argue that even though Caitlin Clark was off the court on Wednesday, it made a case that she is the Most Valuable Player in the WNBA. That's because in the Indiana Fever's first game without Clark since she suffered a quad injury, the Fever suffered their worst loss of the young WNBA season. The Washington Mystics took down the Clark-less Fever, 83-77, on Wednesday night. The Fever started out hot, getting out to a 10-4 lead, and even leading by five at a point during the second quarter. But from 5:47 left in the second until 5:03 left in regulation, the Mystics outscored the Fever, 46-32. Their 11-point lead (73-62) was their largest of the night until garbage time free throws with under a minute left. Indiana scored seven points in the final 22 seconds to avoid a double-digit loss, but the majority of the final 25 minutes were all Mystics. The Fever's previous two losses this season came by a combined three points - they lost by one to the Atlanta Dream and by two to the reigning champion New York Liberty. The Fever had the ball in the final seconds in both of those contests. Their 77 points are the lowest they've scored all season, as well. They had previously scored 93, 90, 81, and 88. Clark is slated to miss at least two weeks with a right quad injury. In their first four games, the Fever's point differential was +37. The former Iowa Hawkeye is averaging 19.0 points, 9.3 assists and 6.0 rebounds in her four games of the 2025 season. Last year, she set the single-season record for the most assists in one year, en route to winning Rookie of the Year. Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell tied with a team-high four assists on the night. The Fever as a whole had just 15 on the night – Clark had a WNBA record 19 on July 17 of last year. DeWanna Bonner dropped 21 points off the bench, leading the Fever. Clark netted a season-high 27 points last Tuesday against the Dream. She dropped 20-plus points in each of her first two games before settling for just 11 on Thursday and then 18 on Saturday against the Liberty. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
CBS News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBS News
WNBA star Caitlin Clark's presence brings buzz to Baltimore despite not playing
WNBA star Caitlin Clark didn't play, but her visit to Baltimore on Wednesday created a buzz. Clark, the popular women's basketball player, signed autographs for fans ahead of the first-ever WNBA basketball game in Charm City. The Indiana Fever, who drafted Clark No. 1 overall in the 2024 draft, played the Washington Mystics at CFG Bank Arena. While Clark was sidelined because of a quad injury, she made herself available to those who came to see her. Caitlin Clark craze in Baltimore! 🏀 Clark is out with a quad injury but Fever tip off against the Mystics from CFG Bank Arena at 7:30pm.@wjz | @WJZ13sports — Grace Grill (@GraceHGrill) May 28, 2025 Clark is scheduled to return to Baltimore on Sept. 7 when the Fever once again play the Mystics. According to SeatGeek, the lowest ticket price for that game is $108. Clark's strong WNBA start Clark is averaging 19 points, 9.3 assists, and 6.0 rebounds per game in her second season with the Fever. In 2024, her rookie season, Clark was a WNBA All-Star, the Rookie of the Year, a WNBA First-Team performer, and was the league's leader in assists. Caitlin Clark effect The Clark craze intensified during her pursuit of the all-time NCAA Division I scoring record for men's and women's basketball. She led the Iowa Hawkeyes to the NCAA women's championship game in 2023, but lost to LSU and Baltimore native Angel Reese. The three-time college basketball All-American scored 3,951 career points at Iowa, with 548 made 3-pointers. Her impact on basketball has led to increased merchandise sales, media attention, sellouts, viewership, and more interest in women's basketball. Caitlin Clark vs. Baltimore's Angel Reese Clark has developed a sort of rivalry with fellow WNBA star Angel Reese, who grew up in Randallstown and played high school basketball at Baltimore's St. Frances Academy. As Clark's fan base was growing, the vocal Reese and her LSU Tigers beat Iowa, 102-85, in the 2023 National Championship Game. Reese caught the national attention when she gestured the "you can't see me" hand signal, and pointed at her ring finger near Clark at the end of the championship game. The two have since been paired as women's basketball rivals. Clark was selected first in the WNBA draft in 2024, while Reese was chosen seventh overall by the Chicago Sky. On May 17, Reese got up and tried to confront Clark after a hard foul. Clark slapped Reese's arm following a rebound. Clark was assessed a flagrant foul. Reese was given a technical foul. Both agreed that it was a "basketball play." "Let's not make it something that it's not," Clark said. "It was just a good play on the basketball. I'm not sure what the ref saw to upgrade it, and that's up to their discretion. It's a take foul to put them at the free-throw line. I've watched a lot of basketball in my life, that's exactly what it was. I wasn't trying to do anything malicious. That's not the type of player I am."
Fox News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Angel Reese 'not the villain' in Caitlin Clark narrative, Jemele Hill says amid growing WNBA rivalry
The Angel Reese-Caitlin Clark rivalry has another chapter closed after the WNBA found that claims of hateful speech toward Reese by Indiana Fever fans were "not substantiated." The two young phenoms have been tied at the hip since they faced off in the 2023 national championship game, where Reese's LSU Tigers defeated Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes, and in the closing moments, Reese hit Clark with a "you can't see me" taunt. It was a move that Clark took in good fun, saying Reese should not have been "criticized at all" and pointing at the nature of competitiveness. But after a flagrant foul by Clark against Reese on Saturday, all the prior talk from each athlete about a lack of a rivalry seemed to falter. However, former ESPN host Jemele Hill said fans are looking too deep into Reese and Clark, even if they do actually "hate each other." "This is ultimately a conversation about cultural competency. Angel Reese's very existence rubs a lot of people the wrong way. No one knows for sure how she feels about Caitlin Clark, but what we do know from Angel Reese's own public comments is that she feels a way that she isn't given more credit for how she also has added to the popularity of women's basketball in this moment," Hill said in a YouTube video on her channel in a segment called "Spolotics." Hill also said Black athletes are more often "portrayed negatively by the media" than White athletes. "If Black athletes are confident, they're considered cocky and arrogant. If they speak their mind, they're considered troublemakers or ungrateful – same tropes, different day," Hill added. But Hill said the Reese-Clark "rivalry" should be treated like every other sports rivalry. "In sports, we love drama. We love the idea of athletes having to go through something. … We also love fiery competitors and athletes who talk their s--t and back it up. But when it comes to women, or more specifically these two women, we are struggling to see them as just two highly competitive athletes who often are in a position of having to compete for the same things," Hill said. "For some reason, when it comes to Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, we simply refuse to view their competitiveness through that same lens. Maybe they hate each other, maybe they don't. But I want us to graduate to a point where whether or not they like each other is utterly irrelevant." "Angel Reese is not the villain in Caitlin Clark's story, no more than Caitlin Clark is the savior in hers. Every interaction between them is not a think piece. If there are hard fouls, rough language and things get spicy, so be it. If you have no problem when male athletes compete hard against one another or expose their pettiness, do us all a favor and apply that same energy so we can actually enjoy this WNBA season." Reese once claimed that increased viewership in women's basketball was "because of me, too" and "not just one person." She also recently reposted a TikTok that claimed she was "unsafe" while playing in Indiana, and she once also said Fever and Iowa fans had been racist toward her. Clark and Reese were teammates in the WNBA All-Star Game last year. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
