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ISU makes changes to future football schedule

AMES — The Iowa State athletics department has announced alterations to future football schedules, including dates for an anticipated extension of the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series to 2031 and the addition of a seventh home game to the 2027 schedule. Iowa State’s Sept. 18, 2027 game which was originally scheduled to be played at Bowling Green will now be played in Ames at Jack Trice Stadium after the parties mutually agreed to move the second game of their current two-game series. Bowling Green University will also play in Ames this season on Sept. 19. Additionally, Iowa State’s 2028 ...

Trio repeat on all-Iowa Star softball

The future of the Iowa Star Conference’s South Division of softball is going to look a lot like it did this summer, if the all-conference teams prove pertinent. Eight of the 12 girls selected to the all-ISC South squad were underclassmen, meaning the future of the division is what the local ...

Big Ten: No conference title game possible

CHICAGO — The Big Ten Conference would do away with its championship game if college football adopts a 24-team playoff. Commissioner Tony Petitti says that’s a worthwhile sacrifice to get his preferred postseason format. “When we make this decision as a league – are we going to ...

Iowa’s Pieper picked for B1G honors

CHICAGO — University of Iowa fourth-year offensive lineman Kade Pieper has been named to the Big Ten Conference Preseason Honors List, it was announced Tuesday by the league office. Twelve student-athletes from all 18 conference schools were selected by a media panel. Pieper, a 2026 Walter ...

Storm comeback falls short to Fever

SEATTLE — Caitlin Clark scored 32 points, Kelsey Mitchell added 28 and the Indiana Fever won their fourth straight game, beating the Seattle Storm 105-95 on Tuesday night. Clark and Mitchell took over for Indiana (18-10) after Aliyah Boston took a hard fall and had to exit in the second ...

5 Bobcats honored by Alliance

The leading hitter in the Iowa Alliance Conference’s North Division, unlike any of her four home runs during league play this season, might have been robbed. Marshalltown High School junior Emma Stupp led the Alliance North with a .657 batting average and settled for second-team honors ...