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MCC pitcher Lindberg is Athlete of the Week

Marshalltown Community College freshman pitcher Cole Lindberg has been named the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference’s Athlete of the Week for April 27-May 3. Lindberg, a native of Buffalo, Minn., was a force on the mound last week for the Tigers, making three vital relief ...

Stirtz earns Hawkeyes’ Chris Street Award

IOWA CITY — Senior Bennett Stirtz and junior Cam Manyawu earned the top team honors for the University of Iowa men’s basketball team for the 2025-26 season. Stirtz was awarded the Chris Street Award, while Manyawu was the recipient of the Kenny Arnold Spirit Award. The Chris Street Award is presented annually to a Hawkeye player or players who best exemplify the spirit, enthusiasm, and intensity of Chris Street. Street was an Iowa basketball player who died in an auto accident in 1993, midway through his junior year. The Kenny Arnold Spirit Award is bestowed upon the player who ...

Iowa State men add ex-Hawkeye Ayala to staff

AMES — It may seem somewhat unconventional on paper, but Drake Ayala’s decision to join the Iowa State University men’s wrestling staff was steeped much more in logic than emotion. Ayala was officially added to new Cyclone head coach Brent Metcalf’s staff on Wednesday. The ...

Nurse rejoins 76ers after brother’s funeral

NEW YORK — Nick Nurse rejoined the Philadelphia 76ers after attending his brother’s funeral, saying Wednesday that Steve Nurse was a fan who would want him at Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Nurse was in Ankeny on Tuesday, the day between the first two games of the series ...

BOBCAT ROUND-UP: ’Cats clinch Alliance dual title

The Marshalltown girls’ golf team secured the Iowa Alliance Conference North Division’s regular-season title on Tuesday, edging Ames by one stroke in a nine-hole dual meet at the American Legion Memorial Golf Course. The Bobcats improved to 3-0 in the Alliance North thanks to a 179-180 ...