When Clarissa Chun perched on the local pool’s starting blocks — readying for a race in the first sport to catch her heart, swimming — she was easily a foot shorter than the other girls on the line.

Another win for the Hawkeyes. Resuming her seat, she readies to repeat the pattern again. Don’t let the intensity and the stress fool you. Chun — who is already an Olympic bronze medalist, a National ...

The woman’s growling voice booms through the darkened arena with the practiced legato and extended vowels of the best announcers in the business. And nooooowwww, wrestling for your Ioooooowwaaaaaa ...