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The University of Iowa and the Big Ten Conference reverse their initial decision and announce plans to go ahead with a fall football season despite the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent health concerns. Players who contract the virus will get "comprehensive" cardiac screenings to monitor for potential complications, some of which cardiologists warn could be dire.

A decision this week had Hawkeye and Big Ten football fans shouting for joy. The Big Ten is going to give fall football a shot after all. The decision comes less than five weeks after pushing fall sports to spring for the sake of player safety during the pandemic.

The Big Ten Conference, including the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, is planning to resume its college football season next month, despite concerns about the coronavirus. Players, coaches and trainers will be tested for the virus daily, a level of targeted surveillance that's currently not available to the state's first responders.

Zac Easter of Indianola loved football. He was driven to be the best, but concussion after concussion led to the end of his football career and ultimately ended his life.

It survived the Great Depression and World War II. Now, the University of Iowa Swim and Dive program is slated to end after 103 years. Ben Kieffer speaks with head coach Marc Long and swimmers Sage Ohlensehlen and Grace Reeder.

Iowa was the first state in the country to re-start high school athletics with baseball and softball early in the summer. On this edition of Talk of Iowa, how both high school and college athletic programs are approaching fall sports.

This year, as a bit of radio consolation for those of us missing RAGBRAI, we are delighted to delve into Iowa’s early bike history with Leo Landis, state curator at the State Historical Society of Iowa.

It’s a warm and humid summer night in late June in Correctionville. Girls and boys and playing softball and baseball in the small rural western Iowa town.…

Baseball’s minor league teams, including five in Iowa, canceled their seasons Tuesday after Major League Baseball decided not to provide players to its…

On this podcast episode of River to River, some of our favorite stories from our archives. Our first is from October 25, 2019 when private military…