LEXINGTON, Ky. — The challenge awaiting Will Stein in his first season as Kentucky football coach is steeper than Jellico Mountain. Five Southeastern Conference football teams made the 2025 College Football Playoffs. UK will face three of them — Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas A&M — in 2026.…
What's the farthest field goal Iowa State kicker Kyle Konrardy feels like he can make?
Iowa guard Tate Sage is expanding his game this summer — and hoping to convince head coach Ben McCollum to schedule the reigning Missouri Valley Conference regular season champions.
Trey Thompson never doubted returning to Iowa after his redshirt season. Here's why he trusted Ben McCollum's plan.
NORFOLK, Va. — Thank you, World Cup. Thanks for the late-game madness, charming underdogs and unfailing stars. Thanks for the obsessive, face-painted and occasionally intoxicated fans, and for even the suspect whistles, comical flopping and administrative meddling. In short, thanks for being…
There is no official Big 12 football conference poll this season. If there was, ISU wouldn't be high up on it.
Quarterback Jaylen Raynor, corner David Coffey, running back Aiden Flora, kicker Kyle Konrardy and defensive end Isaac Terrell represented the Cyclones Wednesday.
The Iowa men's basketball team opened a summer practice to media on Wednesday to discuss building on their Elite Eight run last season, their individual growth, offseason surprises and more.
The Iowa men's basketball team held a summer practice at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Wednesday. See photos from the action. 🏀
Jaylen Raynor transferred to ISU in January after three seasons at Arkansas State.
A big NCAA rule change that will impact the future of Cyclone football is here.
FRISCO, Texas — Despite parting ways with quarterback Brendan Sorsby, Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire was in a rather jovial mood Tuesday at Big 12 football media days. The Red Raiders, the defending Big 12 champions, initially signed Sorsby out of the transfer portal from Cincinnati, with a reported price tag of $5 million. Sorsby didn’t play a game for Texas Tech as he was ruled ...
After limited playing time at Georgia, Jocelyn Faison says Iowa offers the chance to prove there is more to her game than just defense.
After six months of college football starvation, walking into The Star for Big 12 Football Media Days is sensory overload.
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark got challenged with a question about punishing Texas Tech for Brendan Sorsby's gambling, but not Cincinnati.
A FaceTime call from Packers coach Matt LaFleur turned into an unexpected recruiting pitch for Iowa offensive coordinator Tim Lester. Here's how it helped the Hawkeyes land their top quarterback.
DJ Vonnahme went from deep on the depth chart to Iowa’s top receiver. Now Tim Lester sees similarities to an NFL star.
The Iowa football program rarely strays from its standard black and gold look, but one alternate uniform variant has endured and made 10 appearances since its introduction in 2011.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — In the 24 years Mitch Barnhart spent as Kentucky athletics director, UK’s financial investment in sports exploded. When then-Kentucky president Lee T. Todd Jr. lured Barnhart away from Oregon State to become UK AD in 2002, the University of Kentucky athletics budget was $43 million. This week, as Barnhart retires after 24 years leading Wildcat sports, the UK athletics budget ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — In what Eastern Kentucky University athletics director Kyle Moats describes as a “football move,” EKU will officially switch conferences July 1. On Wednesday, Eastern formally leaves the ASUN to join an all-sports version of the United Athletic Conference. Essentially, the football-playing schools from the ASUN are merging with the Western Athletic Conference to create a ...
The Hawkeyes and Panthers will wrestle for the first time since 2011 on Dec. 11 inside the UNI-Dome. UNI has not beaten Iowa since 1974, when the Panthers were still wrestling at the Division II level.
The Iowa women's basketball team held a summer practice at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Thursday. See photos from the action. 🏀
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Long gone are the days where impulse buying meant grabbing an unplanned candy bar or magazine in the checkout line. Now, social media makes it quick and easy for us to purchase just about anything with the click of a button, whether or not it’s in the budget. And for some Americans, it’s hurting them...
Black Friday is fast approaching, and shoppers are gearing up. The National Retail Federation expects more than 183 million people to shop over the weekend spanning Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday this year. But fraudsters are preparing for Black Friday too, looking for opportunities to steal your money or personal information. Before you dive into holiday...
Amari Whiting has played at three colleges in four years, but her basketball journey started by playing with and against boys in Italy. Now she’s bringing that experience to Iowa.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Thomas Haugh and Alex Condon grew up on opposite sides of the globe. One was raised amid the rolling farmland of rural Pennsylvania. The other came of age along Australia’s sun-soaked west coast. Neither could have imagined a basketball-obsessed teenager half a world away would one day become his closest friend. When Haugh and Condon arrived at Florida in the summer of ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — The dividing line on the PGA Tour schedule has existed for decades, but beginning in 2028 that border will be a de facto wall that looks a lot like college football’s Power 4-and-everyone-else calendar. Think of the PGA Tour’s future Track 1 tournaments as Georgia vs. Tennessee football, and Track 2 closer to Washington State vs. Oregon State. It’s all football, but the ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Miami Dolphins general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan might be breathing a sigh of relief from avoiding a dilemma he would’ve had on his hands in the weeks before training camp. The NFL declined to hold a supplemental draft this year, which denied Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby from entering the league in the 2026 season. This after he has already gone through an ...
Forward Joshua Jefferson is the first Cyclone selected in the first round of the NBA Draft since Tyrese Haliburton in 2020.
Bennett Stirtz is the highest-selected Iowa Hawkeye since Keegan Murray was taken fourth overall in 2023.
Expect there to be Iowa State representation in the 2026 NBA Draft with Joshua Jefferson and Tamin Lipsey.
NORFOLK, Va. — College sports lost its chew toy du jour Monday when Texas Tech and quarterback Brendan Sorsby, outflanked by the Big 12’s legal muscle, ended their preposterous quest for Sorsby to play this season for the reigning conference champions. But fret not. In major college athletics, especially during the spring and summer, there is always another off-the-field issue to ignite ...
