Category Archives: Sports

One coach has won 10 games in a season three times in the past seven years; one hasn’t. One coach has been to his conference’s championship game twice in the past seven years; one has been to it once. One … Continue reading →

North Tama’s football season started last week with a 34-6 home opener victory against Belle Plaine (complete with converting a 3rd-and-goal at the 38!) and plays at Ackley tonight. The IHSAA, like the IGHSAU, has outsourced all statistics to the … Continue reading →

From the photos with this story by the Associated Press at Big 12 Media Days last week: But then, with Cincinnati-Houston set to become a conference football game next year, can you blame them for not keeping things straight? Unrelated, … Continue reading →

May 18, 2005: A closeup of the girls’ basketball display at the Iowa Hall of Pride shows the top of Clutier’s 1942 state championship trophy. The display case also included memorabilia from the 1968 Union-Whitten title team. The Iowa Hall … Continue reading →

Stewart Mandel, in the Athletic, did his every-five-years ranking of the college football hierarchy. The landed gentry in Iowa City got even more landed, moving up to Baron. Ames? Well, there’s some lovely filth down here in peasantdom. If I … Continue reading →

June 17, 1972, is depicted in cinema, with the actual security guard playing himself: June 23, 1972, saw President Nixon sign the Education Amendments of 1972, including Title IX, into federal law, enabling scenes like this: January 29, 2012: Iowa … Continue reading →

There are three universities with both men’s and women’s teams in the Sweet 16: Michigan, North Carolina, and — for the first time since 2000 — Iowa State. Gazette stories: MBB, MBB notebook, WBB, WBB notebook, column. Only one of … Continue reading →

The cyclones.com website has become notoriously difficult to navigate in the last few years, probably because (like all the other Learfield IMG websites out there) it was “optimized for mobile”. It even works differently in different browsers. One thing added … Continue reading →

Every week is a great week to be a Cyclone, but some weeks are better than others. Take this one, which is very, very SWEET. I’m too sick to expound upon that right now, but if you know you know. … Continue reading →