AMES --- One of my favorite national columns to read on a weekly basis is Gary Parrish’s “Poll Attacks” piece over at CBSSports.com. Parish targets a ridiculous poll or two every week and aims to hold writers around the country accountable for where they ar...
For the first time since 1987, Iowa State and Iowa will both be ranked when Friday's Cy-Hawk showdown rolls around. Hilton Coliseum is sure to be a mad-house when tip-time comes at 8:30. The game is still days away though. On Monday, Iowa State head coach Fre...
These are interesting times.Iowa State’s football program very well might be smack-dab in the middle of the most important two-week off-season span of the Paul Rhoads era. Rhoads, who will enter his sixth season as Iowa State’s head coach next fall, has a coa...
The following is a press release courtesy of Iowa State athletics communications. AMES, Iowa – Iowa State junior Dustin Hogue has been named Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Week after averaging 19.5 points and 15.0 rebounds in the Cyclones’ wins against Aub...
DES MOINES --- That one had all of the makings of a vintage Iowa State/Northern Iowa basketball game. You know the game that I am talking about. This game makes you want to heave. These games consist of old man basketball (Hickory High anyone?) and clock bleeding....
The other night I was awake into the wee hours of the morning and flipped on the cable box to discover the Keith Olbermann show on ESPN2. Olbermann was part of the ESPN SportsCenter crew that dominated my teenage years in the mid 90's. Back then, there was only on...
Immediately following Iowa State’s 99-70 victory over Auburn on Monday night, I asked head coach Fred Hoiberg the following question:“What does it say about your team when you score 99 points with Georges Niang and DeAndre Kane having relatively tame nights?...
AMES --- These days, the kids are calling it “beast mode.”Dustin Hogue was well beyond that during Iowa State’s 99-70 thrashing of Auburn in Monday evening’s Big 12-SEC Challenge. Hogue was in some sort of super-human, super-hero, super-anything that you can thi...
AMES --- In 1964, United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said, “I know it when I see it,” when attempting to define obscenity. In a peculiar way, that phrase can also be used when trying to recognize a top-25 basketball team in the month o...
