Riley Reiff is a 300-pound man with a chance to start for the Lions for a decade. He also is a 23-year-old who just left the University of Iowa and is trying to impress his bosses in his first job. We look at him as a lineman, but today, let's try to see him as simply a young man.

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Iowa senior center James Ferentz was named to the Rimington Trophy spring watch list for the second straight year. The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the most outstanding center in Division I football. Ferentz was honorable mention All-Big Ten last season and earlier this week he was named to Phil Steele's preseason All-Big Ten team.

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Wisconsin rotates back onto the Nebraska football schedule in 2015 and '16, when the Huskers also will play Indiana for the first two times since becoming a Big Ten member. The Big Ten on Monday released future league games for those two seasons.

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Iowa will open its Big Ten schedule at home in 2015 and 2016, the league announced Monday. Iowa opens the 2015 league schedule Oct. 3 and 10 with home games against Northwestern and Michigan State, followed by road contests at Purdue and Minnesota. Illinois and Michigan are the other Big Ten home games in 2015.

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Fifty years ago, Don Nelson left the University of Iowa eight credits and a student-teaching requirement shy of a degree. Nelson took correspondence classes to complete the credits. But it took the most coaching wins in NBA history for the university to decide Nelson didn't need to be a student teacher to earn a diploma.

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Don Nelson is counting down the days to a life-defining achievement — a moment he has long awaited. Entry into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame? Well, that too. He was announced recently as part of this year’s class of inductees.

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The Washington Redskins have signed fifth-round draft pick Adam Gettis of Iowa. Gettis is a guard chosen with the 141st overall selection. He started all 13 games at right guard for Iowa last year and was a second-team All-Big Ten selection by the conference’s coaches.

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The new trophy for the winner of the Iowa-Iowa State football game will depict the team's mascots after a public vote.

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The reaction last summer to a proposed trophy for the Iowa-Iowa State football game depicting a farm family huddled around a bushel of corn was so negative that officials let the fans pick a design to replace it.

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Iowa heavyweight wrestler Bobby Telford faces a charge of public intoxication after an incident last weekend outside an Iowa City bar. The redshirt freshman finished the season 29-9 and placed fifth at the NCAA tournament to earn All-America honors.

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The Cincinnati Bengals took Iowa cornerback Shaun Prater with the first of their three picks in the fifth round on Saturday. Prater played his high school football at Omaha Central. Cornerback was a key area for the Bengals to upgrade in the draft, with Leon Hall coming back from a torn Achilles tendon. Prater was the 156th player taken overall.

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