Kansas is certainly having an impact on the top of the Big 12 standings, just not as expected after being one of the preseason favorites in the expanded 16-team conference. The Jayhawks may be to blame if the Big 12 ends up getting only one team in the new 12-team College Football Playoff, or ...

SHEFFIELD — The South Hardin-BCLUW girls wrestling team started its season with an 0-3 showing at the West Fork Quad on Monday night. The Storm were led by returning state qualifier Taya Hollingsworth, who earned both of the team’s match wins on the night. Hollingsworth was 3-0 with a ...

Madison Rogers always figured she’d grow up to be a softball player. That was until she tried volleyball. Rogers, a Marshalltown High School senior, signed her National Letter of Intent last week to continue her volleyball career at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge next ...

AMES — Curtis Jones scored 20 points and Tamin Lipsey added 17 to lead the No. 5 Iowa State men’s basketball team past IU Indianapolis 87-52 on Monday night at Hilton Coliseum. It was Jones’ second straight 20-point game off the bench and fourth in his two seasons with the Cyclones ...

NEVADA — The Marshalltown girls’ wrestling team went 2-1 in its season-opening competition at the Nevada Quad on Monday night. The Bobcats beat Iowa Falls-Alden (60-21) and Humboldt (51-30) but fell to host Nevada (60-42). Marshalltown won 12 of the 32 matches it wrestled on the night ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Drake point guard Katie Dinnebier became the second Bulldog to win the Missouri Valley Conference’s women’s basketball Player of the Week honor after a stellar week, the league announced Monday. Dinnebier averaged 27.5 points, 4.0 assists and 2.5 steals per game as the ...