The Hyball: A Newfound Optimist's Take on Iowa and the Final Four
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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The Hyball is a weekly basketball column
Spent a long time as a fatalist.
A long, long, long time. In many ways, I still feel like that is my default DNA as a sports...
The Hyball: Carry That Weight
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
I keep drifting back to the Minnesota game.
You remember that one -- exactly one month ago today. Iowa won 108-60. The nets in that gym are still sitting there in...
The Hyball: Hello, Sydney
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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The Hyball is a weekly basketball column
Throw a dart, hit a hero.
The Iowa women's basketball team going back-to-back-to-back in the Big Ten tournament was a sublime coronation of the Caitlin Clark era in...
The Hyball: 6 Reasons The BTT Title Means More Than The Regular Season
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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@bobbystompy
The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
It's tourney time, baby.
Well, not that tourney. Not the Big Dance. The one right before it. The Slightly Smaller Dance...
Zagged this week and wrote about the Top 8 things I won't miss about CC playing for the black and gold. Gotta smile through the tears.
The Hyball: 8 Thoughts About The End of the Caitlin Clark Era At Iowa
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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The Hyball: More Shattered Records, Please
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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@bobbystompy
The Hyball is a weekly basketball column
Caitlin Clark has always been a numbers player.
For all her beauty and creativity as a hooper, quantifying her game can still be its biggest selling...
The Hyball: Lisa Bluder Is One Of Us
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
Who wants to see a party spoiled?
For so often in the Caitlin Clark era of Iowa women's basketball, this wonderful team brings us into their joy with...
The Hyball: Sheryl Swoopes Is Hard To Pin Down
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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@bobbystompy
The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
When dogs get confused, they tilt their head to the side.
That's been me these last few days. Like many of you, I saw the video. Unlike many of...
The Hyball: More And More Carrots
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
Standing at the top of the mountain with more climbing hooks in hand.
Watching Iowa-Northwestern on Wednesday, I was reminded of the Jay-Z lyric, "We have yet to see a...
I'm back from paternity leave and coming in with some measured takes on Ohio State's victory over Iowa women's basketball. Normal column format returning next week, I hope.
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The Hyball: In The End, It Was Still Pretty Good
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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The...
The Hyball: Caitlin Clark Is Still The Greatest Iowa Athlete Ever
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
Staff Writer
The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
These words are not minced -- they're Mount Rushmore.
Caitlin Clark is STILL THE GREATEST IOWA ATHLETE EVER. Each caps, a different...
Alternate title: ALL YOUR SPORTZ BELONG TO US
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The Hyball: The Night We Hit Peak Iowa
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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It was like the Final Four -- with less calories.
Or maybe more like a big ticket boxing match...
(My apologies to y'all for the double shot of Mulkey/Reese on an Iowa site)
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The Hyball: Tiger Tracking
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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@bobbystompy
The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
You're cheating.
Your favorite team plays beautiful basketball, is winning a ton...
Howdy, GIA! My weekly hoops column back for another season. And I am no less jacked about this women's team compared to last year.
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How the heck has everybody been? After my second straight year abstaining from Iowa football -- a decision that continues to be validated, in perpetuity -- I...
Heading out to Iowa City in a quick minute but wanted to share this news. Caitlin now with some of the best representation in sports to go along with her growing list of national brand deals.
Excel Sports Management has signed Univ. of Iowa G Caitlin Clark for representation. The agency will...
The Hyball: This Is Your Team
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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As sports fans, we are way too often asked to compromise.
Ticket prices, time stretched, loyalty testing losses... that one linebacker who maybe did that one really bad thing.
But in 2022-23, Iowa women's...
The Hyball: It All Happened
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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@bobbystompy
The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
Everything, everywhere, just this once.
As smart as it probably is to say Caitlin Clark was always going to be inevitable, I choose to believe even the great ones...
The Hyball: The Ending
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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Once I start on something, I get obsessed about the ending.
Though Craig Finn may have been talking about binging prestige television, the line repeatedly comes to mind when thinking about this Iowa women's...
The Hyball: This Team Gives Us Everything
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
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MINNEAPOLIS -- As college sports fans, we have an endless appetite for wanting.
We want the skinny beanpole to bulk up. We want the troublemaker to go home from the bar before midnight. We want the...