Des Moines Register: Sports
- Iowa State, Big 12, plan to forge ahead with fall football season
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 10:32 PMOn the day the Big Ten and Pac-12 announced not playing this fall, the Big 12 decided to continue on toward its planned fall start of the season.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Big Ten football canceled for fall, will try to play in spring
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 05:23 PMThe Big Ten will not play football in the fall, multiple sources told the Free Press. A spring season is on the table.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iowa's Kirk Ferentz disappointed to see Big Ten scrap fall football season, backs league's leaders
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 07:50 PMFerentz, in his 22nd season as head coach, takes a swipe at some younger colleagues who seemed to defy Big Ten's plan to cancel season.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Peterson: Lessons learned during the pandemic could benefit the future of college athletics
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 02:18 PMIf the last few months have taught us anything, it's that Power Five commissioners can't sing from the same song book, let alone simultaneously hum the same tune.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'You guys want to play, and ... we want to coach you.' Kirk Ferentz weighs in on Big Ten uncertainty
Monday - 08/10/2020 - 07:40 PMThe 22nd-year Iowa coach canceled Monday's and Tuesday's practices as they await further clarity on the Big Ten season.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Big Ten cancels fall football season, sources tell USA TODAY Network
Monday - 08/10/2020 - 03:08 PMThe Big Ten has canceled the college football season due to concerns related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bob Bowlsby: No decision has been made regarding Big 12 Conference football
Sunday - 08/09/2020 - 09:27 PMThere's no immediate movement for the Big 12 Conference to shut down the 2020 fall football season, commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Sunday night.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sources: Big Ten commissioner prefers spring college football season
Saturday - 08/08/2020 - 12:53 PMBig Ten presidents were scheduled to meet Saturday to discuss the future of the conference's fall sports season. And spring football could be on table
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Peterson: Iowa State was supposed to be in full-go, pad-to-pad practice right now
Friday - 08/07/2020 - 12:46 PMUncertainty and flexibility have become the buzz words for what will be a trying and unpredictable 2020 college football season.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former Iowa Hawkeyes wide receiver Oliver Martin back in transfer portal
Friday - 08/07/2020 - 04:27 PMThe former Iowa City West standout ends his brief Hawkeye career with five catches for 28 yards and one touchdown.
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- Will all conferences bail on fall football after Big Ten, Pac-12 postpone their seasons?
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 05:07 PMThe fallout of the Big Ten and Pac-12 deciding to end college football in the fall will likely have a residual impact on the rest of the sport.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iowa high school football: Here are the tentative CIML schedules for the 2020 season
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 03:53 PMMark your calendars, football fans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - COVID-19 and transfers: A high school football Q&A with IHSAA executive director Tom Keating
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 01:28 PMThe Register had a one-on-one conversation with Keating to discuss how COVID-19 and transfers are impacting Iowa high school football.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iowa State wrestling: Missouri state champ Sam Hrabovsky commits to Cyclones
Monday - 08/10/2020 - 10:58 AMThe Cyclones added another top-200 prospect to its 2021 recruiting class this weekend.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - College football world and beyond reacts to Big Ten's decision to cancel 2020 season
Monday - 08/10/2020 - 04:14 PMA look at the immedaite social media reactions to the Big Ten's decision to cancel the 2020 football season.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Leistikow: The 'why now' of Big Ten's apparent fall shutdown more baffling than the 'what'
Monday - 08/10/2020 - 05:10 PMLess than a week ago, the league was bullish in unveiling a 10-game, conference-only schedule, with action beginning Sept. 3.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Peterson: And now, Iowa State has zero scheduled non-conference football opponents
Saturday - 08/08/2020 - 04:01 PMIowa State has no opponent for a game that athletics director Jamie Pollard said the school prefers playing in five weeks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Missouri Valley Football Conference cancels 2020 league slate; UNI won't play non-conference games this fall
Friday - 08/07/2020 - 09:49 PMIf Northern Iowa football is to happen in 2020, it'll be non-conference games only after the MVFC canceled its league schedule.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iowa family continues work on concussion awareness as book comes out about son's death
Friday - 08/07/2020 - 03:58 PMZac Easter killed himself five years ago and asked that his brain be studied by scientists. He is the subject of a new book, while his family continues raising awareness.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Peterson: Heck yes, I want a safe and healthy college football season
Friday - 08/07/2020 - 02:03 PMContrary to what may be social media perception, sports folks like myself want college football.
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- American Rivers Conference moves most fall sports to spring
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 03:22 PMThe American Rivers Conference is moving most of its fall sports to the spring, including football
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Meet new Valley QB Jake Rubley, who headlines the group of out-of-state players transferring to Iowa schools
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 04:04 PMRubley's move gives Valley arguably the best quarterback in the state. "The talent is undeniable," Valley head coach Gary Swenson said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Leistikow: For willing Hawkeyes, Big Ten's fall football cancellation brings unsettling finality
Tuesday - 08/11/2020 - 06:37 PMThe lack of specifics from Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren underscored the absence of a good plan that left many student-athletes disappointed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iowa football cancels practice as reports surface that Big Ten will punt fall season
Monday - 08/10/2020 - 02:18 PMMultiple reports said the Big Ten was set to cancel the fall football season.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Meet the Iowa native who created the #WEWANTTOPLAY graphic for college football players
Monday - 08/10/2020 - 07:35 PMIowa native Dallas Hobbs created the heavily shared graphic posted online Sunday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Southeast Polk football coach Brad Zelenovich is optimistic and realistic for the season
Monday - 08/10/2020 - 08:01 AMSEP football coach Brad Zelenovich says in a pandemic world, "The biggest message has been to not take anything for granted."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Big Ten football leaders struggle to convey a consistent message, keep doctors in background
Saturday - 08/08/2020 - 04:41 PMLeague formed a task force of medical experts in March, but doesn't let them speak about how a football season can be safely played amid COVID-19 pandemic
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iowa State's only non-conference football option looks to be Ball State
Friday - 08/07/2020 - 09:47 PMA day after losing UNLV as a non-conference 2020 football opponent possibility, Iowa State has likely lost South Dakota, too.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Minnesota Lynx: How a Dowling Catholic grad rose to key spot in one of WNBA's top franchises
Friday - 08/07/2020 - 03:11 PMFormer Dowling Catholic star Clare Duwelius has played a big role in the success of the Minnesota Lynx.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ankeny baseball and Centennial softball on deck for powerful 2020 seasons
Friday - 08/07/2020 - 07:30 AM"It took the assistant coaches, it took the players, it took the parents to make this (Centennial softball) program successful."
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