AMES — Allen Lazard takes a dim view of down time. So much so that as an ISU freshman last season, the highly-touted wide receiver found sitting and watching the specialists work to be too passive an experience. So Lazard trotted out and joined them — specificall...
AMES --- There isn’t a position with more question marks entering the 2015 Iowa State football season than Paul Rhoads' young group of running backs. This bunch returns just one player that had a single carry in 2014.Fans and media have asked if they have the experience or ...
AMES — Paul Rhoads began this summer’s tailgate tour with these frank words: “When we got here (in 2009), we created the culture that we wanted quite quickly and the result of that was a bowl championship,” Rhoads said in May in Ottumwa. “For this ...
AMES — Attention Sam Richardson critics: He’s harder on himself than you could ever be. Exhibit A ... “That’s a quarterback’s job,” Richardson, a senior, said when asked about past slights. “I’ll take every bit of blame for every loss.” So...
AMES — Jhaustin Thomas sensed it the moment he first stepped on Iowa State’s campus in June. A closeness existed within the football program. A strong bond. A “brotherhood.” All of that as well as the 6-6, 265-pound JUCO defensive end’s past trials ...
The Iowa State football program received some outstanding news over the weekend.Less than a week after dismissing sophomore running back Martinez Syria from the program, Paul Rhoads added a junior college back by the name of Kendall Williams to his roster. W...
According to a press release issued by Iowa State on Wednesday afternoon, sophomore running back Martinez Syria has been dismissed from the football team for violating team policies. Syria had 20 carries for 47 yards in five games as a true freshman in 2014.�...
OTTUMWA — Finally, some good news in the twist-, turn- and tear-filled football career of Luke Knott. The popular junior Cyclone linebacker’s twice-repaired hip appears to be good to go for summer workouts and fall camp after receiving a shot to alleviate ongoing...
“We’re not going to the playoffs.”That’s the prescient sentence — according to CBSSports.com and various national media outlets — that TCU coach Gary Patterson shared with ISU coach Paul Rhoads before the then-No. 3 Horned Frogs took the field to trounce the...
AMES — Quenton Bundrage made one cut, then hugged the sideline and ran. The big-play Iowa State wide receiver felt strong. Fast and free. Not remotely focused on the past, which included a torn ACL four plays into the 2014 season. “Not at all,” ...
