Category Archives: Sports

This is what the Devaney Center basketball court looked like Jan. 26, 2011 (my picture): And here’s what it looks like now. (I originally had a screencap from CBS, but the link has a wider image.) Big Ten logos at … Continue reading →

Memphis, Tennessee — In four years, Paul Rhoads has taken Iowa State to three bowl games. With this 31-17 loss to Tulsa in the Liberty Bowl, he also has three seasons with losing records. Despite the 6-7 record, this is … Continue reading →

Imagine the 48 years of the Big Seven and Big Eight conferences (1948-95) as 48 football championship units, divided in split-title years. Of those, only 6 and 1/6 units were not won by Nebraska or Oklahoma, broken down as follows from … Continue reading →

Oh, for Pete (Taylor)’s sake. For the first time, the NCAA on Tuesday named the top 75 All-Time March Madness Players, 25 All-Time March Madness Teams and 35 All-Time Madness Moments as part of the season-long celebration of 75 Years … Continue reading →

ESPN’s complete list of announcers for the 2012 bowl season says Mark Jones, Brock Huard, and Jessica Mendoza will be doing the TV broadcast for the Liberty Bowl and Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway, and Lewis Johnson will cover the game on the … Continue reading →

For the second time in a row, I watched the Iowa State women play at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and for the second time in a row I was disappointed. This game was both closer and uglier than 2010. The summary of … Continue reading →

Thanks to Nebraska so horribly (and so wonderfully) failing to show up at the Big Ten championship game*, Northern Illinois took Oklahoma’s at-large spot in the BCS and the Big 12’s bowl affiliations were scrambled down the line. Iowa State, … Continue reading →

And of course the Maryland-Northwestern women’s lacrosse rivalry will be freaking awesome (for those of you who like women’s lacrosse, at least). — Ben Broman, blogger at Maryland sports blog Testudo Times, to Off Tackle Empire, a Big Ten football blog … Continue reading →

July 3, 2009: College Football Hall of Fame, South Bend. Should Iowa State win today, West Virginia will be the only Big 12 team other than Baylor and Kansas State that Iowa State has a winning record against. But they’ve never … Continue reading →

First, he gets it right: The more people who live in the Big Ten’s footprint, the more households will be paying their cable operators an extra dollar a month or so to carry the Big Ten network. Hence the logic … Continue reading →