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Aces lose Smith to season-ending injury

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Aces said Thursday that forward NaLyssa Smith is out for the season with a left leg injury, dealing a huge blow to the defending WNBA champion's repeat hopes. Smith suffered the non-contact injury at the 3:15 mark of the third quarter in Sunday's 88-78 win over the the Toronto Tempo. Smith has averaged 11.8 points and 6.4 rebounds over 37 games this season and was leading the league in field goal percentage at 63.8%. The loss of Smith will put a lot more on the shoulders of Aces star A'ja Wilson, who is in the mix to win her fifth MVP ...

Iowa's Diaz up for Hispanic Player of the Year

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IOWA CITY — University of Iowa football third-year wide receiver Tony Diaz was named to the 2026 Hispanic College Football Player of the Year Award Watch List on Thursday, given annually to the most outstanding college football player of Hispanic ancestry. Diaz (5-foot-10, 184 pounds) ...

SPORTS SHORTS: MCC soccer nets season’s first win

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The Marshalltown Community College men’s soccer team scored its first win of the season by beating Iowa Central on Tuesday at the MCC campus, 3-0. The Tigers (1-2) scored all three of their goals in the first half, including two for Matoi Yanagisawa. Ran Inosaka added a third tally before halftime as MCC netted its first goals of the season. MCC goalkeeper Torai Matsumoto stopped all three shots he faced, while Iowa Central’s Lautaro Real made two saves on five shots on goal. The loss was the first for the visiting Tritons (1-1). The Tigers take to the road on Saturday, visiting ...

Cyclone warning in State College

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — No. 18 Penn State is starting fresh with new coach Matt Campbell, who’s spent the last few months reassembling a program that crumbled last season. After entering 2025 as College Football Playoff hopefuls, the Nittany Lions went flat to start Big Ten play. Longtime ...

’Cats catch worm at Early Bird

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Preston Johnson’s first race of his senior season was more than a minute slower than in the same race a year ago. Senioritis? Far from it. The Marshalltown High School cross country juggernaut notched first place at Thursday’s season-opening Bobcat Early Bird, easing across the finish ...

Texas judge puts SEC's eligibility rule on hold

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Two days after the Southeastern Conference passed a rule barring players from returning to the league from the pros, a Texas judge put that rule on hold Thursday in a case involving more than 40 players. It was the latest piece of news in what has turned into a breakneck week of legal wrangling over the NCAA’s new five-year eligibility rule. The rule does not apply to college players who exhausted their fourth year of eligibility last spring; many are suing across the country for that fifth year. “As long as they would have been eligible to continue playing college sports in the ...