U. of Iowa's White Athletes Roll On

Kalen Walker of Iowa runs a white American record 9.94 in the 100 meters to join Caitlin Clark, Cooper DeJean, and Riley Moss as mid-2020s white Hawkeye standouts.

In the 2020s, the University of Iowa is on a hot streak at proving Steve Sailer wrong — or at least overconfident — about how big the black-white gap is in basketball, football cornerback, and the 100 meter dash.

Most famously, Caitlin Clark, a 2024 graduate of the U. of Iowa, has become the most famous woman basketball player in the world, making huge amounts of money for the traditionally sad-sack WNBA while enduring racist anti-white racist violence from her opponents with impressive good grace.

Granted, the black-white gap in the men’s NBA is not as large as people may think: white players have won six Most Valuable Player awards in this century (Serbian Nikola Jokic 3, and 2 runners-up, Canadian Steve Nash 2, and German Dirk Nowitzki 1). But, still, it has been hard for white Americans not growing up in places as remote from black basketball dominance as John Stockton’s Spokane to thrive at the highest level of basketball.

Moreover, Iowa’s football team has also provided the NFL in the second half of the 2024 season with its first white two white starting cornerbacks since Jason Sehorn and the half white-half Thai Kevin Kaesviharn way back in 2003.

Second-year Iowa player Riley Moss started 14 games at cornerback for the Denver Broncos last fall.

And Iowa rookie Cooper DeJean started 9 regular season games at cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles and all 4 postseason games. In Philadelphia’s Super Bowl victory four months ago, he intercepted a Patrick Mahomes pass and returned it 38 yards for a touchdown:

And last week …

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