AMES --- Welcome to game week. Iowa State released its depth chart for Saturday’s season opener against North Dakota State on Monday morning and as always in week one, there were a few eyebrow-raising moves.Specifically, why is sophomore wide receiver D’Vario Montgomery listed as fourth-string?Interesting, indeed.*** View the dep...
AMES --- Heading into his senior season at Iowa State, defensive end Cory Morrissey has the reputation of being a nice player. At 6-foot-4, 260-pounds, his body is top notch. Morrissey is a smart kid who is known as one of the hardest workers on Paul Rhoads’ team. Again, he is a nice player, but could the former Gilbert Tiger be mor...
AMES — Former Iowa State all-American linebacker Jake Knott spoke.Brother Luke — a Cyclone up-and-comer at the position — listened.“He told me I’m going to come back better than ever,” Luke Knott said last November as he prepared to undergo season-e...
AMES --- A week after the start of fall camp, Iowa State held its football media day on Sunday at Jack Trice Stadium and with that, head coach Paul Rhoads released a shiny new depth chart. While it wasn't exactly full of surprises, it does provide us an opportunity to go position-by-position and analyze key position battles that will ...
AMES --- Iowa State will host its first scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday and surprisingly, Paul Rhoads won’t be obsessing over the play of his quarterbacks. It is the three-man competition at MIKE linebacker that has Iowa State’s head coach intrigued. “I am anxious to see the MIKE linebackers play,” Rhoads said after Frida...
AMES --- Like it or not, the success of Iowa State’s defense in 2014 could hinge on how two junior college transfers, Dale Pierson and Trent Taylor, adapt to the Division I game.It is no secret at all that the Cyclones need depth on its defensive front-seven. It is early. Very early. But so far, so good. After a brief delay during t...
DALLAS --- Iowa State's senior linebacker Jevohn Miller was one of the four featured players on Tuesday at the Big 12 media days. I caught up with Miller and discussed his expectations for the 2014 season.
I don’t think that I’ve ever done this, but I’d like to post this Memorial Day mailbag in honor of my late, great Uncle Dean Livingston who passed away earlier this week. My Uncle Dean was a great journalist and being that we are the only two “media men” that I know of in my entire family tree, I always felt a special bond with him, even though I only met him twice in my 29-years of life. My "style" of journalism is a heck of a lot different than what ...
AMES --- Iowa State’s defensive depth chart leading up to Saturday’s spring game is a bit of a mess. The combination of injuries and attrition are the cause of this but after Wednesday’s practice, head coach Paul Rhoads did clarify a couple of spots on th...
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