Listen Monday – Saturday for KJAN Sports at 7:18 am, 8:15 am, 12:20 pm, 1:20 pm, 2:20 pm and 5:20 pm!
Catch St. Louis Cardinal Baseball on KJAN — Check out the schedule!
Listen to the Kansas City Chiefs on KJAN — See the schedule!
Iowa Hawkeye Football & Basketball is on KJAN — View More Information!
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – It’s been easy to forget that Iowa State still has most of its season left. Thanks to final exams, the holidays and a quirk in the Big 12 schedule that gave Iowa State a bye week right away, the Cyclones have played just once in 21 days – and that was on New Year’s Day against Yale.
The Cyclones (10-3) have lost to the teams they were expected to lose to – No. 21 Cincinnati, No. 24 UNLV and Iowa on the road – while beating everyone they were supposed to beat. But Iowa State also looked sluggish at times against weaker competition like Florida-Gulf Coast, Missouri-Kansas City and Yale.
The Cyclones have gotten away with it so far. But they won’t when league plays starts Wednesday night at No. 6 Kansas (12-1).
Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call from Tri-Center High School near Neola.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (113.7MB)
Subscribe: RSS
A new report finds the size of Iowa’s pheasant population has fallen 83-percent since the mid-1990s due to disappearing habitat and a series of harsh winters. Kevin Baskins, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says habitat loss alone would have meant only a 26-percent drop in pheasant numbers. “You kind of have an exponential effect when you have declining habitat combined with harsh winters because they have no cover to escape the conditions they’re facing,” Baskins says. “We’ve had several winters in a row with above-average snowfall.”
A milder winter a year ago, combined with the summer-long drought, helped the pheasant population somewhat. Baskins says the habitat loss combined with several severe winters is making it harder for pheasant chicks to survive. “The other big influence we have weatherwise is when we get into colder and wetter springs,” he says. “The chicks, when they’re hatching, if they’re exposed to those conditions, they succumb to the elements. They don’t have as high a survival rates when we get into the colder and wetter conditions after first hatching.”
Baskins says Iowa lost more than a million acres of habitat between 1996 and 2010. He says higher corn prices prompted many farmers to plow up land that normally would serve as habitat for the birds. Bob-white quail numbers are also in decline. The numbers come from the DNR’s 2013 report on the pheasant population.
(Radio Iowa)
The Top Ten teams in the Associated Press Iowa high school basketball poll with first-place votes in parentheses and won-loss record, total points and position last week at right:
Class 4-A
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Iowa City West (15) | 8-0 | 150 | 1 |
| 2. North Scott | 9-0 | 125 | 3 |
| 3. Bettendorf | 8-0 | 109 | 4 |
| 4. Western Dubuque | 8-0 | 92 | 5 |
| 5. Dubuque Senior | 6-1 | 91 | 2 |
| 6. Urbandale | 8-1 | 71 | 7 |
| 7. Sioux City East | 9-0 | 62 | 6 |
| 8. Ankeny | 6-2 | 54 | 9 |
| 9. Sioux City North | 9-0 | 35 | 10 |
| 10. Des Moines Roosevelt | 7-1 | 18 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Des Moines, Hoover 13. Cedar Falls 3. Valley, West Des Moines 2.
Class 3-A
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Vinton-Shellsburg (14) | 10-0 | 148 | 1 |
| 2. Creston | 9-0 | 127 | 3 |
| 3. Dallas Center-Grimes (1) | 9-0 | 94 | 7 |
| 4. MOC-Floyd Valley | 10-1 | 85 | 8 |
| 5. Bishop Heelan Catholic | 7-2 | 81 | 6 |
| (tie) Assumption Davenport | 5-3 | 81 | 5 |
| 7. Grinnell | 6-1 | 58 | 4 |
| 8. Atlantic | 8-1 | 47 | 10 |
| 9. Mount Pleasant | 7-2 | 36 | NR |
| 10. Crestwood | 7-0 | 17 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Iowa Falls-Alden 14. Centerville 10. Solon 9. Nevada 7. Fort Madison 5. Spencer 3. Humboldt 2. Le Mars 1.
Class 2-A
| Record | Pts | Prv | ||
| 1. Nodaway Valley (6) | 9-0 | 135 | 1 | |
| 2. West Fork (5) | 9-0 | 130 | 3 | |
| 3. Western Christian | (2) | 8-1 | 117 | 2 |
| 4. IKM-Manning (1) | 11-0 | 114 | 4 | |
| 5. Western Dubuque (1) | 9-0 | 91 | 5 | |
| 6. Des Moines Christian | 9-1 | 61 | 9 | |
| 7. Sheldon | 10-1 | 36 | 6 | |
| 8. New Hampton | 8-1 | 34 | NR | |
| (tie) West Branch | 8-1 | 34 | 10 | |
| 10. MFL-Mar-Mac | 7-1 | 28 | 7 |
Others receiving votes: PCM, Monroe 27. West Marshall, State Center 4. Hudson 4. Notre Dame, Burlington 4. St. Edmond, Fort Dodge 3. Northeast, Goose Lake 2. Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 1.
Class 1-A
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Danville (12) | 9-0 | 139 | 1 |
| 2. St. Mary’s (1) | 8-0 | 125 | 2 |
| 3. Lone Tree (2) | 11-0 | 105 | 3 |
| 4. Riverside | 10-0 | 88 | 4 |
| 5. Murray | 11-0 | 77 | 5 |
| 6. Boyden-Hull | 7-2 | 49 | 10 |
| 7. Harris-Lake Park | 10-1 | 47 | 7 |
| 8. Lawton-Bronson | 9-0 | 45 | NR |
| (tie) Preston | 9-0 | 45 | 8 |
| 10. Ankeny Christian Academy | 9-0 | 27 | NR |
Others receiving votes: North Tama, Traer 24. Iowa Mennonite, Kalona 14. Belmond-Klemme 13. North Linn, Troy Mills 11. Dunkerton 9. West Monona, Onawa 3. Woodbury Central, Moville 2. North Iowa, Buffalo Center 2.
BOYS BASKETBALL
GIRLS BASKETBALL
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Andy Reid has been introduced as the new coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, one week after he was fired following 14 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles. Reid was joined by Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt and several other team officials at a packed news conference at Arrowhead Stadium. Reid takes over for Romeo Crennel, who joined Reid and five other NFL coaches in losing their jobs last Monday.
Reid took the Eagles to the Super Bowl and won 130 games over his career. But things had soured the past couple seasons and he was dismissed after going 4-12. He takes over a team that went 2-14, matching the worst finish in Chiefs history. That means the Chiefs pick first in the NFL draft for the first time.
Team Scoring:
Weight Class Champions:
Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call from Nodaway Valley High School in Greenfield.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (32.0MB)
Subscribe: RSS
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
RSS