Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State officials say they’re still investigating the fall of a man onto other football fans below at Jack Trice Stadium. The university says the fan tumbled from the second level on the stadium’s east side during the first half Saturday of the game against Oklahoma State, which the Cowboys won, 34-27. University spokeswoman Angie Hunt said Wednesday that she couldn’t yet clarify how many people were injured or say whether the fan who fell remained hospitalized. Names haven’t been released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska heads to Purdue this weekend off losses in three of its last four games. The Cornhuskers have underachieved in a season in which they were a popular pick to win the Big Ten West. They are 4-4 and well behind Minnesota in the division race. Tension is palpable inside and outside the program. Frost has ripped his players inside and outside the locker room. A handful of new players have called out older players. A faction of the fan base is growing impatient.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs remain hopeful that injured quarterback Patrick Mahomes will be available when they play the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium. Mahomes dislocated his right kneecap two weeks ago in Denver. He practiced on a limited basis last week before he was declared out on Friday. The Chiefs started Matt Moore in his place against Green Bay and lost 31-24 to the Packers on Sunday night.

UNDATED (AP) — TCU and Oklahoma State meet after both got needed wins in the Big 12. The Horned Frogs and Cowboys have freshman starting quarterbacks, and the league’s longest-tenured coaches. Gary Patterson is in 19th season at TCU and Mike Gundy in his 15th season at Oklahoma State. Both had lost three of four games before wins last week that knocked other Big 12 teams out of the Top 25. TCU beat Texas, and Oklahoma State beat Iowa State.

UNDATED (AP) — The SEC, which regularly shows its strength in the NFL draft at other positions, may be on track to finally have a banner draft for quarterbacks. Tua Tagovailoa, Joe Burrow and Jake Fromm give the SEC a strong chance to have more than one quarterback taken in the first round of the 2020 draft. That would be a first for the league.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jordan Binnington made 35 saves and Alex Pietrangelo snapped a tie in the third period, helping the St. Louis Blues top the Minnesota Wild 2-1. Sammy Blais also scored for St. Louis, which won for the fourth time in five games. It was the first game for the Stanley Cup champions since star forward Vladimir Tarasenko had reconstructive surgery on his left shoulder.

An Adair County man was recently inducted in the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame. On Saturday, October 26th, Ray “Bubba” Sorensen, of Greenfield, was awarded the Outstanding American award by Dan Gable at the Airport Holiday Inn in Des Moines.

2019 IWCOA Convention Hall of Fame Banquet Outstanding American Ray (Bubba) Sorenson & Presenter Dan Gable.

In his statement, Sorensen, who is known for his “Freedom Rock” paintings and as a Republican Representative for Iowa House District 20, said “I am extremely honored and also undeserving of such a place in Wrestling history, but happy to go in with a group of amazing men, including Jim Christensen and CJ Miller. Also, thanks to my wrestling coaches Larry Riley, Rory Benton and Marty Niblo for the instruction and life lessons.”

Other local inductees included C.J. Miller, of Greenfield (deceased), and Jim Christensen, of Fontanelle.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State officials say they’re still investigating the fall of a man onto other football fans below at Jack Trice Stadium. The university says the fan tumbled from the second level on the stadium’s east side during the first half Saturday of the game against Oklahoma State, which the Cowboys won, 34-27. The university says medical professionals soon responded and provided treatment for the fans. A university spokeswoman, Angie Hunt, said Wednesday that she couldn’t yet clarify how many people were injured, how many were taken to hospitals or say whether the fan who fell remained hospitalized. She also says the ongoing investigation prevents her from providing more details, including any names.

Maury Ruble, of Ogden, told The Des Moines Register that he was sitting behind the man who fell. Ruble says he looked left at his wife and son for a moment after the man stood up. Ruble says that when he looked back the man had already fallen.

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Postseason volleyball will roll on for Class 1A and 2A schools on Halloween night. A couple of sites were determined or changed for area match-ups. The Riverside vs Coon Rapids-Bayard match will be played at Exira-EHK High School in Elk Horn. Also the Nodaway Valley vs West Central Valley match was originally scheduled to be played in Mount Ayr but it has been moved to West Central Valley High School in Stuart. Here is the area schedule for Thursday.

Class 1A Region 2

Boyer Valley @ St. Albert
Coon Rapids-Bayard vs. Riverside (@ Exira-EHK)

Class 1A Region 3

Lenox @ Sidney
Southwest Valley @ East Mills

Class 2A Region 4

Grundy Center vs. Woodward-Granger (@ Marshalltown)
AC/GC @ Underwood

Class 2A Region 5

Pella Christian @ Van Buren
Nodaway Valley @ West Central Valley

The Iowa Association of Track Coaches released their final team and individual cross country rankings for the 2019 season on Tuesday. The State Cross Country Meet will be held on Saturday at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge. Here is a look at the area teams in the final individual rankings.

Class 1A Girls

1. Peyton Pogge, Tri-Center
8. Courtney Sporrer, Logan-Magnolia
9. Taylor Sporrer, Logan-Magonlia
13. Sophia Broers, Nodaway Valley
15. Kylie Morrison, Logan-Magnolia
21. Reagan Weinheimer, Nodaway Valley
24. Grace Slater, Audubon
27. Chloe Falkena, AHSTW
28. Violet Lapke, Logan-Magnolia

Class 1A Boys

1. Josh Baudler, Nodaway Valley
6. Bennett Heisterkamp, St. Albert
7. Noah Jorgenson, Sidney
20. Brett McGee, Tri-Center
24. Isaac Timmerman, Mount Ayr
28. Toby Bower, Nodaway Valley
29. Jon Franke, Tri-Center

Class 2A Girls

3. Kate Crawford, ACGC
5. Ella Waddle, Panorama
11. Tori Castle, Treynor
23. Rylee Sloss, ACGC
24. Mayson Hartley, Clarinda

Class 2A Boys

6. Louden Foster, West Central Valley

Class 3A Girls

17. Braelyn Baker, Creston
19. Lucy Borkowski, Harlan

Class 3A Boys

11. Craig Alan Becker, Atlantic
16. Trey Gross, Harlan

Check out the full list of ranking HERE.

The Iowa Association of Track Coaches released their final team and individual cross country rankings for the 2019 season on Tuesday. The State Cross Country Meet will be held on Saturday at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge. Here is a look at the area teams in the final team rankings.

Class 1A Girls

1 Logan-Magnolia
5. AHSTW
10. Nodaway Valley

Class 1A Boys

2. Nodaway Valley
11. Tri-Center
15. St. Albert

Class 2A Girls

10. AC/GC

Class 2A Boys

15. Treynor

Class 3A Girls

5. Harlan
13. Glenwood

Class 3A Boys

14. Atlantic

Check out the full rankings HERE.

Class 3A – Region 2
(3-0) #2 Kuemper Catholic over OABCIG, (25-23, 25-17, 25-13)

Class 3A – Region 3
(3-0) #3 Red Oak over Shenandoah, (25-14, 25-10, 25-9)
(3-1) #11 DM Christian over Creston, (25-14, 27-25, 21-25, 25-14)

Class 4A – Region 1
(3-0) #1 Sergeant Bluff-Luton over LeMars, (25-17, 25-16, 25-9)
(3-0) Carroll beat Denison-Schleswig, (25-14, 25-6, 25-22)

Class 4A – Region 2
(3-0) #6 Lewis Central over Harlan, (25-17, 25-14, 25-19)
(3-1) Glenwood over Norwalk, (11-25, 25-16, 25-18, 25-16)

Class 5A – Region 1
(3-0) #5 Council Bluffs/Abraham Lincoln defeated #15 Sioux City East, (25-14, 25-20, 25-14)
(3-0) #9 Ankeny Centennial beat Fort Dodge, (25-10, 25-13, 25-12)

Class 5A Region 2
(3-0) #3 Valley over Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson, (25-15, 25-17, 25-6)

Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

UNDATED (AP) — When the Kansas City Chiefs beat the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings in the fourth edition of the Super Bowl, the result marked the second straight time the AFL team took down an opponent from the supposedly superior NFL. The two leagues merged soon after. The 23-7 victory by the Chiefs on Jan. 11, 1970, stands as the only time they have hoisted the Super Bowl trophy. The humbling loss by the Vikings became the first of four Super Bowl losses for a franchise still seeking its first such win.

UNDATED (AP) — TCU and Oklahoma State meet after both got needed wins in the Big 12. The Horned Frogs and Cowboys have freshman starting quarterbacks, and the league’s longest-tenured coaches. Gary Patterson is in 19th season at TCU and Mike Gundy in his 15th season at Oklahoma State. Both had lost three of four games before wins last week that knocked other Big 12 teams out of the Top 25. TCU beat Texas, and Oklahoma State beat Iowa State.

UNDATED (AP) — Top Western Conference teams St. Louis and Colorado are facing significant injuries early in the NHL season. The defending Stanley Cup champion Blues will be without Vladimir Tarasenko for five months and the Avalanche won’t have Mikko Rantanen or Gabriel Landeskog indefinitely. Those injuries to top-line players on two Central Division powerhouses threaten to shift the balance of power in the West.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska heads to Purdue this weekend off losses in three of its last four games. The Cornhuskers have underachieved in a season in which they were a popular pick to win the Big Ten West. They are 4-4 and well behind Minnesota in the division race. Tension is palpable inside and outside the program. Frost has ripped his players inside and outside the locker room. A handful of new players have called out older players. A faction of the fan base is growing impatient.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Southeastern Conference women’s basketball coaches have picked Texas A&M as the favorite to win the league title and have voted Aggies guard Chennedy Carter as preseason player of the year. The coaches released their poll after the media picked South Carolina as the league favorite. The coaches poll had the Aggies firsts, followed by South Carolina and Mississippi State.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — An Oklahoma football fan died after suffering an apparent heart attack at Saturday’s game against Kansas State. David Adams, director of Riley County emergency services, said paramedics were called to the stadium for a patient experiencing chest pain, and the fan collapsed after they arrived. He was treated at the scene and taken to a Manhattan hospital across the street from the stadium, where he was pronounced dead.

The United States’ largest governing body for college athletics took the first step Tuesday toward allowing amateur athletes to cash in on their fame, voting unanimously to permit them to “benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness.”

The NCAA and its member schools now must figure out how to allow athletes to profit while still maintaining rules regarding amateurism. The body’s Board of Governors, meeting at Emory University in Atlanta, directed each of the NCAA’s three divisions to create the necessary new rules immediately and have them in place no later than January 2021.

The NCAA “must embrace change to provide the best possible experience for college athletes,” the board said in a news release. Board chair Michael V. Drake added that such change “must be consistent with the values of college sports and higher education and not turn student-athletes into employees of institutions.”

A group of NCAA administrators has been exploring since May the ways in which athletes could be allowed to receive compensation for the use of their names, images and likenesses. The working group, led by Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman, presented a status report Tuesday to the university presidents who make up the Board of Governors.

The shift came a month after California passed a law that would make it illegal for NCAA schools to prohibit college athletes from making money on endorsements, autograph signings and social media advertising, among other activities. California SB 206 goes into effect in 2023. More than a dozen states have followed with similar legislation, some of which could be on the books as soon as next year.

“This is another attempt by the NCAA at stalling on this issue,” said Ramogi Huma, executive director of the National College Players Association, an advocacy group. Huma said the association has posted model legislation on its website that it is encouraging “all states” to pass “to ensure their college athletes are afforded economic freedom and equal rights.”

The NCAA has said California’s law is unconstitutional, and any states that pass similar legislation could see their athletes and schools being declared ineligible to compete. But the board also said it hopes to reach a resolution with states without going to court.

“We would hope that all who are interested in the future welfare of student-athletes would work with us to get to that point and using reasonable processes to get there,” Drake said.

In addition to pending state laws, North Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Walker has proposed a national bill that would prohibit the NCAA and its member schools from restricting athletes from selling the rights to their names, images and likenesses to third-party buyers on the open market.

“We’re going to continue to communicate with legislators at the state and federal level,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said. “That’s one of the things that the board is asking of me and my staff and the membership in general, and hopefully we can avoid anything that’s a direct conflict with our state legislators.”