State/Local Sports

The Gazette’s area volleyball Super Ten, through Tuesday, Oct. 17: 1. CEDAR RAPIDS JEFFERSON Record: 37-6. MVC Mississippi: 6-0 (1st). MVC tournament: Runner-up. Streak: Lost 1. Previous:...

The following are Iowa high school football playoff projections, through games played in Week 8. This week’s results, both win/loss and margin, are projected solely on BC Moore rankings....

Bryce Esmoil was too young to remember the first wrestling meet he attended at the University of Northern Iowa. So, it isn’t like the West Liberty senior envisioned himself as a Panther...

IOWA CITY — A lot of positives could be taken from Tyler Cook’s freshman season at Iowa. He averaged 12.3 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, started all but one game he played in and...

IOWA CITY — There’s no freshmen orientation for the Iowa men’s basketball team. There’s no easing in. There’s no break-in period. If the 2016-17 season was proof of...

IOWA CITY — Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery didn’t hesitate Monday when asked if he had ever called the NCAA with information about what he felt were recruiting...

AMES – Iowa State graduated seven seniors last season, four who averaged over 12 points per game and six who played in 25 or more games. Replacing those pieces is going to be nearly impossible...

CEDAR FALLS — A lot can change in a week. Proof of that came Saturday in Brookings, S.D., with Northern Iowa’s 38-18 road upset of No. 7 South Dakota State. Coming into the game ranked...

AMES — Before the season, Iowa State safety Kamari Cotton-Moya said this front seven was the best the Cyclones have had in 10 years. Halfway through the season, Cotton-Moya has been proved...

It has taken eight weeks and nine polls, but there’s finally a unanimous No. 1 among the Gazette/KGYM high-school football voting panel. It’s Iowa City West. The final unbeaten in Class...

In an expected move, the University of Louisville Athletic Association’s Board of Directors on Monday voted unanimously to fire men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino. The decision came 19...

In most cases, ranked volleyball teams in Class 1A and Class 2A have first-round regional byes and don’t begin postseason play until next week. Most cases, but not all. North Cedar and...

While the college football outside world was going nuts over the weekend with four Top Ten teams losing, the Big Ten was as stagnant as a swamp. Drain the Big Ten! And now, this week’s B1G...

LANDOVER, Md. — San Francisco 49ers rookie quarterback C.J. Beathard couldn’t author a storybook ending when he replaced Brian Hoyer in Sunday’s 26-24 loss to the Washington...

AMES — After Iowa State dispatched Kansas 45-0 Saturday, the Cyclones sit at 4-2 overall and 2-1 in the Big 12, which is tied for second in the conference. They are receiving votes in both the...

Former University of Iowa basketball player Jarrod Uthoff was released Sunday by the NBA’s Indiana Pacers. Uthoff was among the Pacers’ final 15 players after the team cut three players...

AMES — Iowa State took care of business Saturday by defeating Kansas, 45-0. Here are some of the biggest takeaways from the game: IRONMAN LANNING The week after becoming a national story for...

CEDAR RAPIDS — This is not last season. Let’s repeat that quickly. This is not last season. A 5-1 loss to Omaha in the home opener Saturday night at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena night...

MARION — Heading into the final event of the Mississippi Valley Conference championship meet on Saturday, Iowa City West and Dubuque Wahlert were tied at 272 points. The only thing Iowa City...

AMES — It’s not often a punter can punt the ball nine times and be considered a hero in a 45-0 blowout win. But that’s exactly what happened in Iowa State’s win over...