Rookie mini-camps usually serve as an induction into professional football, but for Jermail Porter, the Patriots’ camp was an introduction to playing football.
The ultimate NFL neophyte, Porter never had so much as played a down on a football field before the camp. The 6-foot-5-inch, 310-pounder, signed as an undrafted free agent, looks the part of [ Read More ]
Most Batman actions figures have an eight pack, rippling arms and a cape.
Jake Herbert, Northwestern’s senior 184-pound wrestler, doesn’t have a cape, but he does have two national championships, a Hodge Trophy (given to the most outstanding wrestler in the NCAA) and the eight pack.
On March 21, Herbert capped off his Northwestern wrestling career with [ Read More ]
Waterloo native Mike Van Arsdale remembers the first time he met Kevin Jackson.
Jackson, who was greeted with a loud, long, standing ovation when he was introduced as Iowa State’s new head wrestling coach Friday in a press conference inside the Jacobson Building, also recalls that chance meeting fondly.
“As a senior in high school, I wrestled [ Read More ]
Check out his second professional MMA fight. Dude taps out in the first round. Thoughts?
“The resources there are unbelievable,” Sanderson said of the State College, Pa., campus. “There was a lot of weighing things. It was back and forth in my mind. I didn’t really have a wrong answer. I could stay here, where I love Iowa State and that is never going to change. This is the place [ Read More ]