Associated Press Feb 28, 2025, 03:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions AMES, Iowa — Jamie Pollard, the Iowa State athletic director since 2005, has received a five-year contract extension through 2030, the university announced Friday. The Cyclones have had unprecedented success in the major sports in 2024-25. The football team had its first 11-win season
Mar 1, 2025, 07:31 AM ET Open Extended Reactions U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he would pardon baseball great Pete Rose, criticizing Major League Baseball for barring the all-time hit champion from the sport’s Hall of Fame for gambling. Rose, who died last year at 83, was banned from baseball for life. He admitted
Kia EV9 (Source: Kia) Massachusetts is launching a first-of-its-kind statewide vehicle-to-everything (V2X) pilot program. This two-year initiative, backed by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), aims to deploy 100 bidirectional chargers to homes, school buses, municipal, and commercial fleet participants across the state. These bidirectional chargers will enable EVs to serve as mobile energy storage
Hyundai Motor Group, including Kia, doesn’t expect to launch solid-state EV batteries until 2030, at the earliest. The company said there’s “a lot of uncertainty” around the promising new battery tech. With others, including Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Stellantis, Honda, and Chinese battery giants CATL and BYD, who will be the first to get the “holy grail”