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Marshalltown basketball star Kyle Smith commits to MCC

Kyle Smith is staying home. Marshalltown High School’s all-time leading 3-point shooter will take his long-range game across town to Marshalltown Community College next season to join the Tigers on the basketball court. Smith announced his commitment to the MCC men’s basketball program on ...

ISU adds Buckley to hoops staff

AMES — Iowa State men’s basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger has named Tim Buckley as a new assistant coach, effective immediately. Buckley replaces the vacancy created when Kyle Green left the Cyclones to take the head coaching position at Northern Iowa. Buckley was a member of ...

Crooks one of many in the portal

Audi Crooks is one of nine Iowa State players who officially entered the NCAA transfer portal Monday in the first 12 hours it was open. The nation’s second-leading scorer is one of more than 1,100 Division I women’s basketball players who entered the portal after it opened just after ...

UNI schedules Spring Game, kids camp for April 25

CEDAR FALLS — Northern Iowa football fans are invited to celebrate this year’s spring season with the 2026 Spring Game, hosted inside the UNI-Dome on Saturday, April 25. The free UNI football kids camp will return, hosted and run by the UNI Panther football team ahead of the Spring ...

Bobcats blow away the competition

The Marshalltown boys’ soccer team took its season-opening loss to heart and learned all the lessons it could for the first week of the spring. Three matches and three decisive wins later, the Bobcats were feeling decidedly better than they did four nights earlier. For the second time in ...

SPORTS SHORTS: Bobcat girls fall to Newton in soccer opener

NEWTON — Newton scored three goals in the second half to rally past the Marshalltown girls’ soccer team in Thursday’s season-opening match for 3-2 victory at H.A. Lynn Stadium. Aliviah Ross scored two goals and Adalynn Groves got another for the host Cardinals, who outshot the Bobcats ...