A group of seven Iowa Hawkeye fans from Cedar Rapids started a nonprofit in 1979, the Iowa Hawkeye Rebounders Ltd., to support Iowa basketball. They ended up organizing the largest nationwide college all-star game for three years in a row, from 1982 to 1984. It started when lawyer Jim Chipokas talked to Iowa coach Lute Olson about holding Hawkeye intrasquad games at the 7,200-seat Five Seasons Center arena (now the Alliant Energy PowerHouse) that had just opened in downtown Cedar Rapids in April 1979. Chipokas pulled together six friends — radio sportscaster Bob Brooks, orthodontist Dr.
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Diane Langton, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
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