MINNEAPOLIS -- Iowa was reeling from a pair of losses to teams the Hawkeyes were favored to beat, pushing that 12-0 regular season from 2015 to the back of the memory bank.They got back on track with a gritty victory over rival Minnesota.Akrum Wadley took off for a 54-yard touchdown run with 5:28 left and the Hawkeyes hung on to beat the Gophers 14-7 on Saturday to hoist the Floyd of Rosedale trophy for the second straight year.We just kept grinding, said Wadley, who had 14 carries for 107 yards for Iowa (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten), who matched the program record with an eighth straight road win despite two interceptions thrown by C.J. Beathard.Iowa has won four of the last five meetings and 12 of 16. Minnesota still leads the overall series 62-46-2.I would like to say we wanted it more, said Beathard, whose streak with a touchdown pass in nine straight games was stopped.Floyd, the 98-pound bronze pig first awarded in 1935 as a bet between the governors of the two states, mustve felt unwanted for most of the game.Mitch Leidner completed only 13 of 33 passes for 166 yards and was also picked off twice for the Gophers (3-2, 0-2), who were flagged eight times for 58 yards and lead the conference in penalties.After one of Ryan Santosos nine punts went only 30 yards, Wadley scored on the next play. Sophomore safety Jacob Huff, subbing for an injured Antoine Winfield Jr., went the wrong way at the snap and missed a futile diving attempt at the tackle. LeShun Daniels Jr. ran in the 2-point conversion.Sooner or later, they slip up and it will be a long one, Wadley said. Either LeShun or me was going to hit it.The Gophers overcame Leidners second interception and regained the ball with no timeouts and 86 seconds remaining. Leidner moved the ball to the 13 with four completions, but his fourth-down fade throw to Brian Smith in the end zone fell short with 43 seconds left.This one really hurt, Gophers linebacker Jonathan Celestin said, especially losing at home.Shannon Brooks gave Minnesota a 7-6 lead midway through the third quarter with a 9-yard run, but the Gophers didnt take full advantage of an Iowa defense that was leaking an average of 183 rushing yards per game. Brooks and Rodney Smith combined for only 21 carries.I think the holes were there, Brooks said. Maybe try to break more tackles.THE TAKEAWAYIOWA: Kept alive the hope of winning the West Division again, recovering from a homecoming loss to Northwestern with a performance that wasnt pretty but still a winner. The Hawkeyes get both Wisconsin and Nebraska at home this season.This win defines our season, cornerback Desmond King said.MINNESOTA: Struggled all afternoon to sustain drives, let alone score, after totaling 86 points in the last two games against Iowa. Leidner didnt complete a pass until less than 4 1/2 minutes were left in the first half, and his throw into double coverage at the Iowa 35 later on that possession was picked off.He never could set his feet because he had to get the hell out of the way, coach Tracy Claeys said. They were just squeezing the pocket, and the protection wasnt any good, and I think that leads to some inaccuracies.FRONT FIVEThe Hawkeyes were unable to consistently protect Beathard, who was hampered by a handful of drops by their receivers. Twice they reached the 10 and settled for a short field goal by Keith Duncan. 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Marcell Ozuna Jersey . -- About a third of the way through the regular season, the Washington Wizards are at .MOSCOW -- Russias doping cover-up went far beyond the Olympics, according to a vast archive of emails released by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigator.Besides the 12 medal winners from the 2014 Winter Olympics whose samples were supposedly tampered with, messages show a system which covered up drug use by blind athletes and children as young as 15.In 2015, a year after the Olympics, Russias top doping scientist, Grigory Rodchenkov, complained that the scheme Richard McLaren termed the disappearing positive methodology had grown so large it was covering for doping -- and apparent abuse of power -- in disabled sports.Five blind athletes in powerlifting, a form of weightlifting, had tested positive for the banned steroid methandienone at the same training camp. Rodchenkov suspected unscrupulous coaches eager for medals were doping the athletes without their knowledge.Its a disgrace, Rodchenkov wrote to Alexei Velikodny of Russian states Sports Training Center. The coaches were picking on the blind (who) cant even see what people are giving them.A year earlier, the records show Velikodny issuing a save order for a 15-year-old competitor in track and field -- the instruction which meant a failed test was reported as negative.The young athlete -- one of the most promising juniors in Russia at the time -- was flagged up as a Crimean athlete in the emails, a distinction which may have helped him avoid a ban after testing positive for marijuana. It was May 2015, two months after Russias annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a failed test at one of the first competitions in Russia featuring Crimeans could have been embarrassing.McLarens report alleges more than 1,000 Russian athletes benefited from a cover-up scheme administered by government officials and Rodchenkov, the Moscow lab director who later fled Russia and turned his emails over to WADA. Following criticism that his intermediate report in July lacked evidence to back up its claims, McLarens full investigation is accompanied by a website containing thousands of pages of documents including years of emails, charts listing hundreds of suppressed tests and copious photographs of urine sample bottles with telltale scratches that McLaren says indicate they were tampered with.None of the writers of the emails responded to requests for comment. However, the Russian authorities have not disputed the content of the messages. Some of the authors have been suspended from their jobs, as was then-Deputy Sports Minister Yuri Nagornykh, who was placed on leave in the summer and resigned in October.The emails show a deeply corrupt system, with lab staff worried about their industrial-scale doping cover-up being exposed while they faced pressure from ambitious officials to save more top Russian athletes from doping scandals. Even Rodchenkov struggled to keep pace with the sheer scale of Russian doping.In early March 2014, shortly after the Sochi Olympics had finished with Russia at the top of the medals table, Rodchenkov remained under pressure.By his own admission, Rodchenkov had spent Russias home Winter Olympics swapping dirty samples in the dead of night in the temporary Olympic laboratory in Sochi, covering for up to 12 medal winners whose samples appear to have been tampered with, according to the McLaren report.Still, running the Sochi lab ahead of the Paralympics later in March, Rodchenkov was trying to hide his deceptions from the numerous foreign experts drafted in to ensure the lab ran smoothly. That didnt stop him from coming under state pressure to cover uup more cases, emails leaked by Rodchenkov and published by McLaren show.dddddddddddd cant ignore OBVIOUSLY POSITIVE samples in front of everybody, he wrote to the Sports Training Centers Velikodny. That was in response to a message asking Rodchenkov to cover for nine track and field competitors shortly before the world indoor championships in Poland that month.Six athletes could be saved, but Rodchenkov insisted three particularly egregious cases couldnt be covered up. The athletes who gave them were now corpses who cant be brought back to life.Two months later Rodchenkov was again exasperated, telling Velikodny to get track and field together and give them a final warning. Theyve lost all fear. They should all just be banned already.Velikodnys response: I agree!The Russian track team would be banned by the end of the year, though not in the way Rodchenkov had envisioned. A World Anti-Doping Agency investigation into the team was already underway and would publish a damning report in November 2015, causing tracks governing body to suspend Russia from all international competition, eventually including the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.The email archive contains hundreds of pages of messages, mostly between Rodchenkov and Velikodny, with occasional cameos from junior lab staff, drug-testing officials and Nataliya Zhelanova, who was anti-doping adviser to Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko. Mentions of Mutko and his deputy Nagornykh are limited to initials, making their direct involvement difficult to prove.Russias cover-up was vast, with more than 1,000 athletes estimated to have been included. The sheer size was key to its success, giving the impression of an active, fully-functioning anti-doping system which in some years collected more samples than any other country, only to make positive tests vanish in the lab.That size also meant involving many people at various level of the state sports system, a liability which was devastatingly exposed when a husband-and-wife team of whistleblowers -- one an athlete on steroids, the other a disillusioned drug-test agency worker -- went public in 2014 with damning, yet only partial, revelations about the system. That, in turn, led to the WADA reports which exposed the labs deepest secrets.While covering for stars, officials routinely allowed obscure athletes to be banned in order to keep up the appearance of an efficient drug-testing system. Athletes well-being was almost never discussed. Despite repeated cases involving GW1516, a substance not considered fit for human consumption because of repeated cancer cases in animal testing, none of the emails contain any suggestions of discouraging its use.The archive has its flaws, though. Documents from the Sochi Olympics themselves are notable by their absence -- Rodchenkov has previously said he received instructions about the games in face-to-face meetings with Nagornykh, the deputy sports minister, and a handler from the FSB security service. Many documents are only available in the original Russian, or only in the English translation. Athletes names have been redacted but enough details of their competitive records remain that its possible to deduce many identities.The writers certainly knew the risk if their emails were ever made public.In November 2013, three months before the Olympics, Rodchenkov issued an order that Russian officials may wish he, too, had followed: Delete all messages urgently! ' ' '