Remember that disgusting SEC vs. SEC, Alabama/LSU national championship game back in January of 2011?Of course you do.That single specific BCS calamity likely wouldn’t have occurred had Iowa State not shocked No. 2 Oklahoma State, 37-31 in double-overtime on...
AMES — One thing’s for certain: Iowa State’s leading tackler, Jevohn Miller, won’t play in Saturday’s 2:30 p.m. game at Kansas. “He will not be available,” Cyclone coach Paul Rhoads said in Monday’s news conference. Miller — who still ran...
AMES --- Quick hits on this and that surrounding Iowa State athletics and the Big 12 Conference on your Monday morning…ON IOWA STATE FOOTBALL*** I don’t have a vast overview from Iowa State’s 59-14 loss to Oklahoma for you this morning. I described what ...
AMES — Oklahoma lost Sterling Shepard — the wide receiver ISU coach Paul Rhoads considers one of the Big 12’s best, if not the best at his position— one offensive play into Saturday’s game. Didn’t matter. Not one bit and not for one second. ...
AMES — Brandon Jensen didn’t flinch. For four-plus months during Iowa’s coldest winter in 30 years, the Iowa State defense tackle stuck by his decision to leave the team. School had intensified. Life had, too. “No one wanted me to leave,” Jensen...
AMES — Mistakes used to stick with ISU quarterback Sam Richardson. They’d stew, simmer and linger within his brain. Now miscues provoke a dismissive laugh and don’t impact the junior’s play moving forward. “I kind of just shake them off,” Rich...
AMES — ISU rising star Cory Morrissey’s on a mission to slam, upend and crumple opposing quarterbacks at an elite rate. So far, so good. The senior defensive end is tied with Malcom Brown of Texas for the Big 12 lead in sacks through three games. Both avera...
Wow. I don’t think anyone ruled out the possibility of the Cyclones leaving Iowa City with a win, but even after the improved performance over Kansas State and the Hawkeye struggles against Ball State and Northern Iowa, it didn’t seem like the most likely sc...
IOWA CITY — The radio crackled, carrying Cy-Hawk news to a young Cory Morrissey.Iowa State’s star defensive end often watched the Cyclones play Iowa on TV or in person growing up, but when he couldn’t, sounds of the big game had to suffice. “It br...
AMES — It’s April of 2011. The air is crisp; the tulips in full bloom as then-true freshman Iowa State linebacker Jevohn Miller’s padding up for his first spring game. Miller, now a senior for the Cyclones, had arrived on the ISU campus early after finishing ...
