Luke Meredith

Rulon Gardner’s epic upset of Russian wrestling great Alexander Karelin in 2000 remains one of the most compelling moments of the modern Olympics.

Starting in 2020, youngsters looking to Gardner and Karelin for inspiration won’t have a chance to excel on the sport’s biggest stage.

Gardner and nearly everyone else associated with the sport in the U.S. were jolted Tuesday when International Olympic Committee leaders dropped wrestling from the Summer Games.

AMES, Iowa — For Iowa State to live up to its potential, senior transfer Will Clyburn has to play like a star.

On Saturday, Clyburn showed just how good the Cyclones can be when they follow his lead.

The Big Ten and Pac-12 have scrapped plans to schedule games against each other in all sports, with Pac-12 officials saying there were too many complications with football schedules to pull it off.

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Rulon Gardner's coach said the 40-year-old heavyweight trained like a madman to get back to the Olympics.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Featherlite Inc. founder Conrad Clement and his family have purchased the Iowa Speedway in a sale that officials said won't affect the daily operations of the popular track.

Officials announced Tuesday that the Clement family had bought the holding company that owns the five-year-old track, U.S. Motorsports Corp., from the Manatt family effective June 30. Terms were not disclosed.

The Manatts, who own a Brooklyn, Iowa-based construction company, have been the primary investors since the track was built in 2006 but had always intended to transfer controlling interest within five years.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Just when it all seemed to be a breeze for NASCAR Trucks Series rookie Cole Whitt, he got a weekend's worth of reminders that nothing comes easy in racing.

Whitt, the promising 19-year-old in Red Bull Racing's stable, rolled into Kansas Speedway for Saturday's Trucks event as the youngest leader of the points race -- and he stormed out in sheer frustration.

Whitt's No. 60 Chevy was tight in Friday's first practice. Just when his team started making gains there, the motor began acting up. Whitt wasted his next run trying to figure that out rather than exploring Kansas City's 1.5-mile track, and even a new motor couldn't get him higher than 16th in qualifying.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa recruit Anthony Hubbard is an explosive scorer, an athletic defender and by most accounts fits perfectly into coach Fran McCaffery's vision for the Hawkeyes.

Hubbard also just turned 26 and he's spent more time in prison than he has playing organized basketball.

Hubbard pleaded guilty to a 2003 robbery and was incarcerated in his home state of Virginia for three years and 11 months. When he left jail in 2007, he didn't have a high school diploma or any aspirations of going to college, let alone playing for one.