Charged cover during the bar crawl and the bouncers were unnecessarily aggressive at noon. Terrible service.
John Lin
Love the bar after kitchen close. May be crowded sometimes but a great
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Paige McFarling
A sports column bouncer tonight (5-13) grabbed me in my lower private area and my top private area in order to let me in with no cover. I was fully willing to pay cover but was involuntarily touched very inappropriately in order to get in “for free”. I did not ask for this or hint at this. This bar needs to be shut down if they continue to hire creeps.
Fredy Portillo
The door staff is terrible. They need to get trained and learn how to do their job better. The other night I was planing to go In to have a good night with some friends and I literally got denied with my real ID. I am very upset because most people that go there are Freshmen with actual fakes and they never get denied. I was also not mad because I did not get in, I was upset because the door staff don’t know what a real ID looks like. I’m basically 24 years old and the bouncer “JT Cooley” refused to let me in even after showing him a second proof of identification. He was rude and unprofessional. I wish the manager was there so they could see how terrible their staff is. I want to give zero starts but that was not an option. Never going back there, specially if people like him work there. Terrible experience, I would not recommend this bar to anyone.
KC C.
Nice place to grab a drink & hangout with friends
Julian Stewart
Used to be a great place to meet friends for a drink and enjoy a Hawkeye football game. These days I'll randomly stop in for a drink. Great place to socialize.
Jenni H.
Sports Column is a solid college-town sports bar. No frills: just bar food, beer and sports being played on many TVs. What more can you ask for? There's literally a beer special everyday from 7PM-close. Or all day on Sunday ($1 off anything that pours and half price pizza.) And let's not forget SpoCo's birthday special -- $30 for 20 pitchers of Busch Light. The food menu has wings, pizza, mozzarella sticks, onion rings, chicken fingers and a trio of cheesesteak/beef sandwiches. I came here on a Monday evening for an end of the year youth sports team shindig. The bathrooms were clean, the thin crust pizza wasn't half bad, the waitstaff was friendly and the kids had so much fun with the different games SpoCo boasts. (Hello boxing game.) The beer menu is mostly domestics -- nothing uber local by any means-- my biggest complaint is a pint of Bud Light was $5? Open daily (weekdays at 6PM, weekends at 3PM) this Iowa City sports bar is definitely somewhere to hit up when you want to catch a game and enjoy a pint!
Dimossa
Decent place, small bucket cocktails and beers. 4 bucks per on thu.
Thomas Sullivan
them thursday pitchers be hittin diffy no kiz
Benjamin M.
I will start this review off by saying that I am a former oil tycoon that invested all of my vast estate into former website "Ask.com" assuming that it would always be a great success and that I would prosper immensely. Unfortunately a little company called google caused me to perish. Now that you have an idea about my financial situation I'll tell you that this place is my favorite place in Iowa City... to give glory hole blow jobs at for money. The guys at this bar tip you a pretty penny not to mention most of the times they don't have only open soars on their members.
Great staff! Fun and friendly bartenders and servers.
Dave Schiestel
Good college bar complete with sticky floors and the college bar smell.
I Ditarod
The best patrons. Sad the popcorn machine has seemed broke in like forever
Colton S.
Very childish and employees. Cannot give my condolences to this business, if you want to deal with college level employees, then come here, just be ready to be disappointed
Charged cover during the bar crawl and the bouncers were unnecessarily aggressive at noon. Terrible service.
Love the bar after kitchen close. May be crowded sometimes but a great
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
A sports column bouncer tonight (5-13) grabbed me in my lower private area and my top private area in order to let me in with no cover. I was fully willing to pay cover but was involuntarily touched very inappropriately in order to get in “for free”. I did not ask for this or hint at this. This bar needs to be shut down if they continue to hire creeps.
The door staff is terrible. They need to get trained and learn how to do their job better. The other night I was planing to go In to have a good night with some friends and I literally got denied with my real ID. I am very upset because most people that go there are Freshmen with actual fakes and they never get denied. I was also not mad because I did not get in, I was upset because the door staff don’t know what a real ID looks like. I’m basically 24 years old and the bouncer “JT Cooley” refused to let me in even after showing him a second proof of identification. He was rude and unprofessional. I wish the manager was there so they could see how terrible their staff is. I want to give zero starts but that was not an option. Never going back there, specially if people like him work there. Terrible experience, I would not recommend this bar to anyone.
Nice place to grab a drink & hangout with friends
Used to be a great place to meet friends for a drink and enjoy a Hawkeye football game. These days I'll randomly stop in for a drink. Great place to socialize.
Sports Column is a solid college-town sports bar. No frills: just bar food, beer and sports being played on many TVs. What more can you ask for? There's literally a beer special everyday from 7PM-close. Or all day on Sunday ($1 off anything that pours and half price pizza.) And let's not forget SpoCo's birthday special -- $30 for 20 pitchers of Busch Light. The food menu has wings, pizza, mozzarella sticks, onion rings, chicken fingers and a trio of cheesesteak/beef sandwiches. I came here on a Monday evening for an end of the year youth sports team shindig. The bathrooms were clean, the thin crust pizza wasn't half bad, the waitstaff was friendly and the kids had so much fun with the different games SpoCo boasts. (Hello boxing game.) The beer menu is mostly domestics -- nothing uber local by any means-- my biggest complaint is a pint of Bud Light was $5? Open daily (weekdays at 6PM, weekends at 3PM) this Iowa City sports bar is definitely somewhere to hit up when you want to catch a game and enjoy a pint!
Decent place, small bucket cocktails and beers. 4 bucks per on thu.
them thursday pitchers be hittin diffy no kiz
I will start this review off by saying that I am a former oil tycoon that invested all of my vast estate into former website "Ask.com" assuming that it would always be a great success and that I would prosper immensely. Unfortunately a little company called google caused me to perish. Now that you have an idea about my financial situation I'll tell you that this place is my favorite place in Iowa City... to give glory hole blow jobs at for money. The guys at this bar tip you a pretty penny not to mention most of the times they don't have only open soars on their members.
Restaurantji Recommends
Best bar in Iowa city.
Great staff! Fun and friendly bartenders and servers.
Good college bar complete with sticky floors and the college bar smell.
The best patrons. Sad the popcorn machine has seemed broke in like forever
Very childish and employees. Cannot give my condolences to this business, if you want to deal with college level employees, then come here, just be ready to be disappointed