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By Chris Conetzkey | ESPN.com | July 31, 2008 While interning at ESPN.com in the summer of 2008, I got a chance to do a package about the 2008 NFL Hall of Fame class, and a feature story about one of the inductees. I choose Emmitt Thomas. Along the side of the article is a […]
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By Chris Conetzkey | Business Record reporter | December 10, 2009 This is an enterprise story I did about a controversial road project in Des Moines. The project had been proposed multiple times over the course of 20 years, and once again Polk County is studying the area. A road through this environmentally sensitive area […]
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Five of us, four reporters and a photographer, drove down to cover the men’s and women’s Big 12 Championships. Five days later we had posted 35-plus stories. Another reporter and I covered the ISU men’s team. The Cyclones were eliminated after their first game, but we stayed to cover the remainder of the tournament. It […]
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Interchanges ahead?
By Chris Conetzkey | Business Record reporter | December 10, 2009 This is an in-depth look at how potential economic development is spurring record demand for interstate interchanges in the Des Moines metro area. Fourteen interchanges are planned in the Des Moines Metropolitan Planning Organization’s 35-year plan. Read the story
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By Chris Conetzkey | Business Record reporter | December 10, 2009 This is an in-depth look at how businesses were beginning to use Twitter to market their products and better listen to their audiences . Read the story
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By Chris Conetzkey — Daily Staff Writer | Monday, March 31, 2008 The ISU softball team lost a former teammate when she died in a car accident before the season. At the team’s first home game the team honored her with a ceremony before the game. I was covering the game, wrote a recap of […]
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By Chris Conetzkey/Daily Staff Writer | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 This is an in-depth three-part series that looks at the struggles female college athletes deal with at the end of their college careers. Female athletes lack opportunities in the pros >> Read part-1 By Chris Conetzkey/Daily Staff Writer | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Women’s team […]
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By Chris Conetzkey – Daily Staff Writer | Saturday, December 13, 2008 After former ISU football coach Gene Chizik abandoned the team, a group of football players posted a video response on Facebook. We came across the video and wrote a story about it to help show the feelings of the players, who at the […]
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Bill Fennelly — Cyclone for life
By Chris Conetzkey/Daily Staff Writer | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 ISU women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly was the recipient of a 12-year contract extension. He got this just three months after a loss that he described as the lowest point of his career. This two part series details what it was like going from the […]
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By Chris Conetzkey – Daily Staff Writer | Monday, December 8, 2008 This is a preview for an Iowa State-Drake men’s basketball game that details the importance of having a consistent Craig Brackins on the court, and looks at his struggles from the previous season. Read the story
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By Chris Conetzkey – Daily Staff Writer | Sunday, November 2, 2008 During the economic collapse last fall, I did an in-depth piece that looked at the readiness for the United States public to deal with an economic situation like what the country saw during the Great Depression. I talked with economy professors and a […]
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By Chris Conetzkey | Iowa State Daily | Monday, November 12, 2007 This is a coverage story of the ISU football team’s final home game of the season. The Cyclones rallied from 21 points down in the first half to beat Colorado after a strange end to the game on senior day. The final plays […]
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By Chris Conetzkey – Daily Staff Writer | Sunday, January 25, 2009 ISU sophomore Craig Brackins dropped 42 points on the Kansas Jayhawks, but the Cyclones still lost by double-digits. It was a battle between two of the Big 12’s top-scorers, that saw Brackins win, but his team lose. Read the story
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The One to Watch
By Chris Conetzkey | Monday, March 10, 2008 2:00 AM CDT This is a profile about an ISU softball pitcher who pitched three no-hitters in the first three weeks of her freshman year. She was under recruited in high school do to an injury that prevented her from playing her junior year. Read the story
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By Chris Conetzkey/Daily Staff Writer | Thursday, June 14, 2007 I was interviewing the ISU gymnastics coach for a story and he told me about a new system he installed when he became the Iowa State coach. He set up cameras for each apparatus and had the feeds recorded with TIVO. This allows the gymnasts […]
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Struggling from three-point land
By Chris Conetzkey – Daily Staff Writer | Monday, January 26, 2009 This is a trend story that takes a look at the ISU men’s basketball team’s struggles from behind the arc. Early in the season the team’s go to shot was the 3-pointer. The team hit a drought during the middle of the season, […]
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By Chris Conetzkey/Daily Staff Writer | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 During the summer, when Barry Bonds was making his run at Hank Aaron’s home run record, I went out to talk with some little leaguers and coaches to get a gauge of their understanding of the situation. Read the story
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By Chris Conetzkey – Daily Staff Writer | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 This is a mini-feature about an up and coming leader on the ISU men’s basketball team. Story: For 39 minutes and 49 seconds last Friday, Diante Garrett had made just one shot. With the Cyclones trailing by one, things looked grim for a […]
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By Chris Conetzkey/Daily Staff Writer | Wednesday, December 6, 2006 This is a second-angle recap from an ISU women’s basketball game. Another writer took the main recap story that night. It was a 7:30 p.m. start on a Tuesday, so I was writing on deadline. Read the story
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By Chris Conetzkey | Thursday, August 30, 2007 A preview of the ISU football team’s season opening game. Story: Alvin Bowen has goosebumps. And when you are about to face an opposing quarterback who scrambled for 658 yards and seven touchdowns, those goosebumps just might be warranted. Don’t worry – they aren’t from fear, but […]
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By Chris Conetzkey | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 This is a post-game analysis piece on the impact early field position had in Iowa State’s win over Iowa. Read: The Cyclones set the tone for Saturday’s 15-13 upset win over the Hawkeyes with a victory in the very first big moment of the game. No, that […]
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By Chris Conetzkey – Daily Staff Writer | Saturday, November 15, 2008 This is a recap of a ISU men’s basketball game. Story: Craig Brackins drained a spinning fade away on the Cyclones first possession, but that was just the start. Brackins put on a show, scoring 21 points from all over the court and […]
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By Chris Conetzkey – Daily Staff Writer | Sunday, February 8, 2009 A recap of a ISU men’s basketball game against Missouri. Story: New venue, same story. Missouri (20-4, 7-2) shot 57 percent from the field and, just as it had in Columbia, Mo. three weeks ago, used big 3-pointers to keep Iowa State (12-11,1-7) […]
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