Iowa State had closed within a touchdown in the fourth quarter, and Rutgers needed a big play from its biggest receiver. Mohamed Sanu has been the Scarlet Knights' most productive receiver, but he is a shrimp compared with the redshirt freshman Brandon Coleman. Coleman stands 6 feet 6 inches, four inches taller than Sanu, and the Cyclones decided...
Less than seven minutes into a football game between Rutgers and Army at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 12, the grounds crew hustled onto the field and stepped on several large divots of turf that had become dislodged near one end zone. It was at about that moment that Lonn Trost cringed. ''I was somewhat chagrined,'' Trost, the chief operating officer for...
Early Tuesday night, Iowa State football coach Paul Rhoads peered through the glass panes of a suite at Yankee Stadium and witnessed yet another first in a three-year run filled with breakthroughs. Before a Pinstripe Bowl dinner, his players were given a tour of the majestic ballpark, where they will play Rutgers on Friday. Rhoads looked through...