so brad and fran mccaffery are taking it slow. we started practice about two days ago and i'm like a kid in a candy store...i'm just trying to jump in everything right now. against kennesaw state on november 11th at carver hawkeye arena. that national league wildcard game from the big apple... the san francisco giants and the new york mets... great pitcher's duel... the mets noah syndergaard strikes out hunter pence---syndergaard fired 10 k's in seven scoreless innings. the giants madison bumgarner is pretty good tonight---striking out five in a complete game shut out..... a three run homer in the ninth by the giants' connor gillapsie national league divisional series with the cubs. thanks rick. we'll be right back. you've worked hard. retirement's within reach, but congressman blum wants to raise the retirement age to 70. blum: we've got to raise the retirement age. blum would even deny social security to seniors until they're 70. i'm monica vernon, and i approve this message, because seniors have earned social security and medic

this summer, fans got a chance to see him fran mccaffery says he has the highest ceiling of any player he's ever coached. "he's really quick. he's really fast. he's ambidextrous. he has skills, so he can make plays off the dribble for himself. he can go to the basket. he can find guys while he's dribbling it. he can feed the post. he can post up. and he can make threes. so, you gotta cover him, you gotta deal with him everywhere on the floor at all times." it feels great that your coach believes in you, and along with the rest of the coaches. that doesn't mean go crazy. that doesn't mean jack up shots from half-court. but just being able to know that they're invested in you, you must be invested in yourself. it's great. now, my confidence is through the roof." trt: 46 oc: "confidence is through the roof" ... coming tonight at 10, jess settles and i will talk more about the iowa men's basketball team in this week's sunday night spotlight, ... nfl action, vikings looking to go 5-0 facing the houston texans ... minnesota's offense jumped on houston right away... sam bradford pumps and thr

today coach fran mccaffery and the hawks hold their annual media day in iowa city. the hawks return just one starter from a team that made it to the second round of the big dance before losing to eventual national champion villanova. senior peter jok jok was iowa's with 16 points a game---he also grabbed three and a half rebounds and had one point three steals a contest. the hawks also return nicolas baer and dom uhl---who both logged significant playing time for just because we are young guys, but we are real athletic we can run and we havd playmakers this year we can shoot it..every year people surprise them. fran has been doing a great job since he's been here. he always finds a way for us to be successful. night november 11th against kennesaw state at carver hawkeye arena today four-time super bowl champion quarterback tom brady returns to practice with thw game suspension for deflate-gate. despite being without brady for the first month of the season.. the patriots are three and lead the american league east. new england visits winless cleveland on sunday. and

players -- just one player who averaged double digit points for them last season returns -- but fran mccaffery says the offense will be mostly the same... in terms of how much the hawkeyes actually set up the offense -- that could be a different story. we've got a lot of athletic guys, man, they can run the bigs can run like deer so we expect to run more this year. year.when you have a front court that can run like our group, we just, we take off rather than worrying about who to get the ball to because that takes time.the big twelve announcing it's preseason selections for women's basketball today -- iowa state's seanna johnson is the first cyclone to be honored 10 rebounds a year ago -- good for second in the conference -- bill fennelly's squad tips things off on november sixth.... and before we know it -- wrestling season will also be here -- tom brands' teams has finalized dates with penn state and ohio state at carver hawkeye arena -- they've also confirmed several dual times including a seven o'clock showdown saturday december tenth with iowa state... two weeks ago, the kirkwood volleyba

the i will meant tip off their readyfran mccaffery knows that game ready. fran mccaffrey knows his freshman have the learning curve ahead of them and to get them ready to the battles in the big ten let's say friends being passionate in their practices thus far. the main thing is what he is trying to say in the big picture . >> it's all a learning experience. >> qualified for the state is teams have done on the course. course.sandy sabelka -- our ed thomas coach of the week sandy is our ed thomas coach of "this is kind of my life right now and it's what keeps me going and it kind of gives me a purpose." purpose.""she's pretty much like an after school program that we just go... she takes care of us, she feeds us."but more importantly sabelka has taught them to be thankful .. .."be thankful for everything that you can do. be thankful that you can get up out of bed every morning and be healthy runners have taken that to heart -- -- over the summer, sabelka suddenly lost her husband -- and that's when the team -- rallied around their coach raising 3 thousand dollars