Travis Hines

6 days ago | desmoinesregister.com | Travis Hines

When you looked at Iowa State football's 2024 schedule, you saw opportunity early. You spotted forgiving home games and winnable road contests. You noted a stretch that, even if everything didn’t go exactly the Cyclones’ way, they could really set themselves up for something, if not special, at least interesting. The question for me was, with a team that had battled back from adversity the year before, if the 2024 outfit would have the maturity to seize that opportunity. To make the most of it.

1 week ago | desmoinesregister.com | Travis Hines

Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers is NBA haters’ new favorite target. Haliburton, a former Iowa State basketball star, is one of the best point guards in the NBA. NBA superstars frequently are the target of criticism by their fellow players in the league. One of the most important things to know about the NBA in order to understand it is that it's a hater’s league. Players, teams, coaches, franchises – everyone and everything in that league is both a hater and the hated.

3 weeks ago | amestrib.com | Travis Hines

AMES – Matt Campbell is fighting a losing battle. That's probably generous, actually. I think the reality is that the Iowa State football coach is fighting a battle that has already been lost. Free agency is here, created by the ease of mobility of the transfer portal paired with the dollars of name, image and likeness. Revenue sharing and roster limits are on the horizon. “This is education,” Campbell said of college football. “This is higher learning.

3 weeks ago | desmoinesregister.com | Travis Hines

AMES – Matt Campbell is fighting a losing battle. That's probably generous, actually. I think the reality is that the Iowa State football coach is fighting a battle that has already been lost. Free agency is here, created by the ease of mobility of the transfer portal paired with the dollars of name, image and likeness. Revenue sharing and roster limits are on the horizon. “This is education,” Campbell said of college football. “This is higher learning.

3 weeks ago | desmoinesregister.com | Travis Hines

AMES – There used to be an understanding about Iowa State football. That morphed a little bit into conventional wisdom. Then it seemed like we all just sort of collectively discarded it. Remember? Back in the bygone days of, well, 2021, when we thought, assumed and generally expected that Iowa State football under Matt Campbell would always have – and need – a feature, NFL-bound running back?