AMES — Iowa State’s Royce White scanned the stat sheet and shook his head. The multi-talented 6-8, 270-pound forward narrowly missed his second triple-double of the Big 12 season in the Cyclones’ deceptively lopsided 72-54 win over last-place Texas Tech. Good game, right? “I don’t think I was on the offensive track at all,” said [...]
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AMES — Bubu Palo put up some shots before practice Thursday at the Sukup Basketball Complex. They were the last ones the Iowa State point guard would hoist while wearing a cumbersome cast on his right hand and wrist. “I get it off, actually, today,” said Palo, a former walk-on who holds the distinction of [...]
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AMES — Iowa State’s Royce White posed the question matter-of-factly. Teammate Chris Babb delivered. “I walked up to him and asked if he was ready for the dagger,” said White, who saw Babb deliver the knockout blow — a 3-pointer with 56 seconds left — in Saturday’s landmark 72-64 win over then-No. 5 Kansas at [...]
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AMES — Late Friday night, Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly switched off his office lights and headed home. Then he heard it: Bounce, bounce, swish. “Hallie (Christofferson) was still in the gym,” Fennelly said. “You work at it, some good things happen.” They certainly did Sunday, as Christofferson struck for a career-high five [...]
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AMES — Scott Christopherson drove, set and let fly. The shot Iowa State was not expected to need Wednesday night against outmanned, but gutsy Oklahoma State — a potential game-winner at the buzzer — spun toward the basket. Sailing … a little long … Until it clanked off the glass and dropped in. Christopherson and [...]
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AMES — Iowa State guard Chris Allen screamed “aaaahh” as one of his 3-point shots spun through the air. The next noise heard: swish. Allen tied a season-best scoring effort Wednesday, helping his team withstand Ames native Jordan Burgason’s 3-point barrage as the Cyclones beat Lipscomb 81-64 before a crowd of 11,513 at Hilton Coliseum. [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — On Tuesday, the City Council is expected to approve agreements that will put the Doubletree by Hilton name on the city-owned downtown hotel and turn management over to Hilton of the hotel, the U.S. Cellular Center arena attached to it and the convention center under construction next door. Construction manager John Frew [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Iowa’s oldest and largest business network has selected the $75.6 million Cedar Rapids Convention Complex for its 2014 conference. The Iowa Association of Business and Industry 2014 conference site selection committee voted unanimously to have the Cedar Rapids Convention Complex host the organization’s annual Taking Care of Business Conference June 9-12, 2014. The conference [...]
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City officials are interested in adding a hotel to the city-owned Brown Deer Golf Club. The city has been negotiating a land lease agreement with developer Fairway Suites to build a hotel at the public 18-hole golf course, which is north of Interstate 80 at 1900 Country Club Dr. The City Council on Aug. 9 [...]
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Hilton Worldwide is interested not only in putting its Doubletree by Hilton name on the now-city-owned Five Seasons Hotel, but also in managing the hotel and the U.S. Cellular Center arena attached to it, both now under renovation, and the city’s new convention center going up next door, city officials said Friday. Mayor Ron Corbett [...]
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