Unfortunate news came out of Cedar Falls today as wrestling coach Jay Llewellyn was told by the school they wanted to go in a new direction.

Llewellyn just finished his ninth season as the Tigers’ coach, helping Michael Kelly win the 145-pound state title this past February.

He was a good guy and easy to work with on a professional level.

Switching gears – As far as the head coaching position at Iowa State I’m still hearing a lot of different rumors. The Terry Brands contact I got was solid, but it looks like, according to my source, Brands told the Cyclones he wasn’t interested.

Other names I’m still hearing frequently are Kevin Jackson, Greg Randall, Jim Gibbons and Chris Bono. I heard athletics director Jamie Pollard took a jet somewhere yesterday …. don’t know where.

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There are serious rumors that Iowa State wrestling coach Cael Sanderson is going to take the head coaching job at Penn State.

At least one source close to the Courier has confirmed this information, and according to the CentreDaily News in State College, Pa., Sanderson interviewed for the job Thursday.

It also has been reported on WHO TV in Des Moines and in the Des Moines Register that Sanderson has interviewed twice for the job.

My source is telling me the Nittany Lions are offering Sanderson in the range of $250,000. His base salary at Iowa State is in a little more than 130,000 according to Iowa Public Records.

Sanderson just finished his third season at Iowa State, leading the Cyclones to a third place finish at the NCAA championships in St. Louis in March. Sanderson replaced Bobby Douglas in 2006.

For the story go to centredaily.com.

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Thirty-minutes until the start. It is win or go to the golf course for the Black Hawks as they trail the Gamblers 2-0 in this best of five series.

Here are tonight’s starters. (more…)

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We’re going to try this again tonight. Had Internet issues during most of Thursday’s game. Got kicked off on numerous occaisions.

Teams should be taking the ice soon for pre-game skate. Game time is 1 hour away.

Hawks need a big win to take a 1-1 series back to Young Arena for Games 3 and 4. (more…)

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We’re 45 minutes from opening faceoff and fans are starting to trickle into the Resch Center for Game One of a Clark Cup first round playoff series between the Green Bay Gamblers and Waterloo Black Hawks. The teams should be on the ice soon for pre-game.

Here are tonight’s starters. (more…)

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Just got done watching the Black Hawks go through their pre-game skate prior to tonight’s game one of the Clark Cup playoffs against the Green Bay Gamblers.

The Hawks went about 30-40 minutes on the Resch Center ice. I can’t tell you what the practice will mean as far as success tonight, but the team is loose and relazed.

It was an uneventual trip up with the most amazing aspect of the 5-hour journey is the capacity of some of Hawks guts. We stopped in Madison for some Qdoba burritos and several players had two. I don’t know about anybody else, but one is almost more than I can handle. I can’t imagine consuming two.

I finished a close second to Black Hawks’ radio announcer Tim Harwood in four-hour marathon Trival Pursuit game.

The team is scheduled to eat lunch at 2 p.m. (Spahgetti). Nothing like a little pasta buffet.

The Arena is set in a neat area as it lies in the shadow of Lambeau Field here in Green Bay and is nestle near the Packers indoor practice facility as well.

I’ll be blogging live from the game tonight. Check back then.

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