{"id":12053,"date":"2020-05-04T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12053"},"modified":"2020-05-03T23:01:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T04:01:44","slug":"iowas-greatest-sports-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/iowas-greatest-sports-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Iowa’s Greatest Sports Moment’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHO-TV’s “Iowa Madness” bracket, a matchup of the top 32 moments by Iowans or Iowa teams in sports history, finished last week.<\/p>\n

Dan Gable, a wrestler with deep ties to both Iowa State and Iowa, won the tournament for his 1972 gold medal path in the Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The full, completed bracket is here<\/a> (PDF). The three other finalists were Kurt Warner, Nile Kinnick, and Shawn Johnson, and that’s not a bad Iowa sports Mount Rushmore (though I would swap Jack Trice for Johnson).<\/p>\n

Side note: If I have to hear about the 1985 Iowa-Michigan game again, where the #1 Hawkeyes (a place Iowa State has never been) won by a last-second field goal (something that Iowa State has been unable to do so many times), it will be too soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHO-TV’s “Iowa Madness” bracket, a matchup of the top 32 moments by Iowans or Iowa teams in sports history, finished last week. Dan Gable, a wrestler with deep ties to both Iowa State and Iowa, won the tournament for his … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12058,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions\/12058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}