Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford delve into questions surrounding the high school football season. Read what we had to say on conversions, passing duos, recruits and the expansion of Friday Night Lights.
Lisbon amassed 444 offensive yards, including 277 rushing from Baylor Speidel in a 34-28 victory over Class A No. 10 Columbus Community, plus more notes from the area in the Week 3 Iowa high school football rewind.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy piled up 412 yards of total offense and held the Lions to 233 yards en route to a convincing 34-0 victory before a near-capacity crowd at Linn-Mar Stadium.
Here’s a look at how all the teams ranked in The Gazette’s Iowa high school football poll fared in their Week 3 games.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy beat Class 5A No. 4-ranked Linn-Mar 34-0 in an Iowa high school football game Friday night.
Follow The Gazette’s live blog for scores and updates from Week 3 of the Iowa high school football season Friday night.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy junior offensive lineman Nick Brooks announced Friday in a ceremony at the school that he will play college football at the University of Iowa. The 6-foot-8, 385-pounder picked the Hawkeyes over Florida State, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.
A couple big results in Week 2 of the Iowa high school football season caused a bit of a rankings shake-up in this week’s Gazette poll. The Prep Football Huddle podcast breaks it all down.
A sophomore, Adam Gray ran second individually and paced the Cougars’ fast foursome to an impressive title run at the Cedar Rapids Invitational cross country meet Thursday afternoon at Seminole Valley Park.
Take a peek at this week’s Iowa high school football schedule and you might think the postseason has already started. It’s a stacked slate across the state. Here’s who all 73 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face.
Prep cross country: 20 girls teams, 19 boys squads entered for Thursday’s Cedar Rapids Invitational at Seminole Valley Park.
A dozen of the top Gazette-area Iowa high school football games to watch in Week 3.
See photos as Kennedy hosted Washington for a girls’ swim meet.
See photos as the Iowa Hawkeyes hosted the Southern University Jaguars to open their 2025 women’s basketball season.
Iowa State’s Milan Momcilovic erupted for a career-high 29 points and seven 3-pointers in a dominant 88-50 season-opening Iowa State win over Farleigh Dickinson.
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