The Pinning Combination podcast with The Gazette's K.J. Pilcher and hall of fame coach Dick Briggs welcomes the University of Northern Iowa Coach Doug Schwab. The trio talks about the Panthers’ strong start to the season, the Panthers’ culture and Schwab’s family experiences. The podcast concludes with a look at the past weekend's college and high school results and the upcoming schedule.

The Pinning Combination podcast with The Gazette's K.J. Pilcher and hall of fame coach Dick Briggs breakdown UNI and Iowa State’s performance in Las Vegas and Iowa’s wrestling programs’ dominance in Missouri. They also discuss highlights from last weekend’s high school season.

The start of the boys’ high school wrestling competition this week means the wrestling season is firing on all cylinders. The Pinning Combination podcast with The Gazette's K.J. Pilcher and hall of fame coach Dick Briggs takes a look ahead at the upcoming events for Iowa, Iowa State and UNI. They also discuss girls’ wrestling teams off to a good start and previews the beginning of the boys’ season.

For the first time since 1977, there are no Gazette-area teams in the Iowa high school state football championships. But The Gazette's K.J. Pilcher and Jeff Johnson are making picks for all seven of this week’s games anyway on the Prep Football Huddle podcast.

Plus, a look at successful seasons for Iowa City Liberty and Mount Vernon that ended with narrow semifinal losses last week.

The UNI-Dome welcomes 28 teams for the Iowa high school state football semifinals this week.

The Gazette's Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson and K.J. Pilcher discuss last week’s quarterfinal results, preview some noteworthy semifinal matchups and pick the champions in all seven classes on this episode of the Prep Football Huddle.

With Iowa high school football teams one win away from the UNI-Dome, Jeff Linder and K.J. Pilcher review last week’s playoff games and take a class-by-class look at this week’s quarterfinals on The Gazette’s Prep Football Huddle podcast.

Plus, which games are we most looking forward to this week?

It’s all about the playoffs now with 16 teams remaining in each of the seven Iowa high school football classes. The Gazette's Jeff Linder, K.J. Pilcher and Jeff Johnson take a class-by-class look at the brackets with games to watch and surprise teams to consider on this episode of the Prep Football Huddle.

Iowa high school football’s Week 8 was full of surprises and The Gazette's Jeff Johnson, Jeff Linder and K.J. Pilcher put them into perspective on this week’s episode of the Prep Football Huddle.

Plus, a look at the playoff scenarios for 5A, 4A and 3A entering Week 9, intriguing first-round matchups in 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player, possible changes to the format and another round of trivia.