Category Archives: Sports

The Iowa State women lost, at home, to an 11-seed, making me 0-for-2 in personal attendance this season… …while the Iowa women made the Elite Eight — to face the big bad of the Big 12. (And the Iowa men … Continue reading →

March 22, 2019: Drake’s Becca Hittner (arms up) turns after being whistled for a foul in the closing second of overtime against Missouri in Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Yes, I watched basketball in person Friday. No, Iowa State wasn’t … Continue reading →

Bill Fennelly has never been Big 12 Coach of the Year. It’s almost always given to the coach of the first-place team. The one time Iowa State was top seed in the conference tournament (2000), the award went to Oklahoma’s … Continue reading →

For the second time this century, more than half of the teams in a Class 1A state tournament will be private schools. The bracket for the boys’ basketball tournament starting today has Algona Garrigan, Grand View Christian, Council Bluffs St. … Continue reading →

Heavy headline, light subject. (The struggle is real.) See also the story from the Gazette.

Iowa native John Wayne portrayed Davy Crockett in the 1960 movie “The Alamo.”

Hey, any time there’s a chance to dunk on Roy Williams, I’m going to take it. (Sigh…what could have been.)

The Iowa State women are playing at Iowa tonight, and I must decide whether to return to the Carver-Hawkeye House of Horrors. Yes, I engaged in this internal debate four years ago too. In the 11 games in Iowa City in … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, doe-eyed innocents will be sacrificed to the cheers of crowds wearing camo and blaze orange. It’s also the first day of deer season. I suspect a lot of hunters who are also ISU fans aren’t happy about the game … Continue reading →

Iowa State has never played football in January. (The latest, chronologically? The New Year’s Eve 2009 Insight Bowl that had a night kickoff in Tempe.) And Iowa State has never played a regular-season game in the state of Iowa in … Continue reading →