FORT DODGE — East Marshall softball earned countless opportunities to shock the state. In the end, Van Meter seized their moment instead, as eighth-grader Mady Schnell slammed a walk-off solo home run in the eighth inning to lift the top-ranked Bulldogs past the Mustangs, 4-3, in an ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz watched two of his best coaching friends, Bill Belichick and Nick Saban, leave football after last season. So, naturally, college football’s longest-tenured coach smiles and nods as he reflects on his own potential exit. “All of us have to do ...
IOWA CITY — 2024 Olympian Kennedy Blades has signed a National Letter of Intent to join the University of Iowa women’s wrestling program, Iowa head coach Clarissa Chun announced. Blades is a three-time world medalist. At U20, Blades brought home gold in 2021 and a bronze in 2023. She also ...
FORT DODGE — It was worth the wait for the East Marshall softball team. Playing in the state tournament for the first time since 2019, the Mustangs unleashed an offensive onslaught, mostly in one inning, and they rolled past Lisbon 8-1 in a Class 2A quarterfinal Tuesday on the Iowa Central ...
IOWA CITY — University of Iowa senior linebacker Jay Higgins has been named to the Big Ten Conference preseason honors list as announced by the league office on Tuesday. Twelve student-athletes from all 18 conference schools were selected by a media panel. Higgins has also been named Walter ...
NEW YORK — The WNBA All-Star Game drew a record number of viewers with 3.44 million people watching the contest in Phoenix on Saturday night. The game, which saw the WNBA All-Stars beat the U.S. Olympic team 117-109, easily topped the 1.44 million that viewed the 2003 contest. Saturday’s ...