College

AMES (MCT) — Austen Arnaud wore an unsightly, inch-long scar on his throwing hand. Reggie Stephens recalled the fairly gory details of his recent appendectomy.

AMES (ISU) — Iowa State center Reggie Stephens is cautiously optimistic that he will be back in the lineup against Oklahoma State after undergoing an appendectomy on Oct. 27. 

CEDAR FALLS (MCT) — Northern Iowa’s football team is peering into a cloudy future.

IOWA CITY (MCT) — Mike Kafka’s left hamstring received a ton of attention Monday. And it should, as it’s carried Northwestern’s offense all season.

IOWA CITY (MCT) — During interviews, Ricky Stanzi kind of keeps his head down and stares straight ahead.

IOWA CITY — Ricky Stanzi will forever be remembered in Hawkeye lore after his last-second touchdown pass to Marvin McNutt to beat Michigan State last weekend.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Iowa State Cyclones are one win away from becoming bowl eligible.

NEW YORK (MCT) — It took one swing of the bat to wake them up, to raise the decibel level in this $1.3-billion palace to a height surpassing any it had reached in the previous 24 hours.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT) — Texas and Iowa don’t have to play for the national championship to compete against each other.

IOWA CITY (U of I) — Iowa’s seventh-ranked football team will face Indiana before an expected sellout crowd of more than 70,000 Saturday in Kinnick Stadium.

IOWA CITY (U of I) — The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award announced earlier this week its 2009 O’Brien semifinalists and Iowa’s Ricky Stanzi is on the list.