Eliot Clough

The Associated Press released its women’s basketball preseason poll today, ranking the University of Iowa No. 9 and Iowa State University No. 12 in the country.

Nope, not cows, pigs, horses, chickens, goats or any other farm animal. This creature is known as Megalonyx jeffersonii, named after its giant claw and it's first scientific explanation that came from Thomas Jefferson.

Matt Norlander of CBS Sports recently put together a series of articles ranking each and every NCAA DI basketball team in the country. All 358 of them. He put the Panthers as the 111th best team in the country.

Those of us with Iowa roots know that the place we come from and the collection of people we're a part of is unique. I mean, with all this corn, you've got to be a little different, right?

The original name for the establishment was "Hospital for the Insane," or "Insane Asylum." It's still a functional hospital today.

Everyone knows about the classic monsters. Big Foot, Chupacabra, Jersey Devil, Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, etc. But what about the lesser-knowns? Maybe the ones that could be in our very own backyard.

What few UNI alumni know -- and fewer residents of the state of Iowa know -- is that MLK visited Cedar Falls and spoke in the university's Lang Hall just five years prior to winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Though the Coyotes are generally a top 25 team in the country and have plenty of talent of their own, UNI has had their number over the last few contests, taking the last three and nine of the last 11.

Mac Gray has been UNI Football's ball boy since January of 2021. He's taken the opportunity, become a part of the team, and has plans to do something bigger.

Though finding fossils isn't something that happens regular basis for most Iowans, there have been a few, rather gargantuan finds here in the Hawkeye State.