AMES — The Iowa State women’s basketball team defeated Nicholls 68-44 on Thursday night at Hilton Coliseum, improving to 2-0 with a balanced scoring effort and a commanding advantage inside. Tjasa Turnsek led the Cyclones with 18 points and 13 rebounds, recording a double-double. Sienna ...
NEW YORK — Five retired umpires have sued their retirement plan from their work for Major League Baseball and the plan's retirement committee, alleging they are owed additional money. Joe West, Tom Hallion, Gerry Davis, Larry Vanover and Jerry Layne filed the lawsuit on Sept. 29 in federal court in New York. They claimed their benefits were not correctly calculated and alleged they should receive additional money under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Their lawyer, Paul B. Holmes, said Thursday the amount owed the five is in excess of $2 million. West said ...
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Kyle Larson's championship media day at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Thursday could be summed up in one word: awkward. Larson was the lone Cup Series "contender" on hand for the event. Christopher Bell and Denny Hamlin, both technically still in the mix for the title, were excused. So Larson was alone on the stage, the first time that's happened since NASCAR moved to a playoff format more than two decades ago. "We've earned the right for it to be awkward," Larson quipped. "I like awkwardness." Larson holds a 67-point lead over Bell heading into the season finale ...
\Voters in left-leaning Washington state and Colorado have approved measures designed to ban transgender athletes from participating in school-sanctioned sports. Measure 638 in Washington, which had more than 56% of the vote, will prevent students who were assigned male at birth from participating in sports designated for female athletes. The measure also requires athletes wanting to play in female sports to produce a statement from a health care provider verifying their gender. Proposition 134 in Colorado will require educational institutions and athletic associations to assign ...
Punting is winning in the Hawkeye State. University of Iowa second-year punter Boston Everitt and Iowa State’s Jonah DuPont have both been named to the 2026 Ray Guy Award Midseason Watch List, which recognizes the nation’s top collegiate punter, the Augusta Sports Council announced Thursday. Everitt is averaging 43.7 yards on 36 punts through his first eight games as a Hawkeye, ranking 37th nationally and sixth in the Big Ten in punting average. A native of New Hope, Australia, Everitt has placed 21 punts inside the 20-yard line — including four against Iowa State. He has forced ...
IOWA CITY — McKenna Woliczko had 22 points and Ava Heiden added 15 as No. 10 Iowa defeated Eastern Illinois 80-39 on Thursday night. Woliczko, a freshman from San Bruno, Calif., was 9 of 12 from the field, including 4 of 6 on 3-pointers on a night when the Hawkeyes struggled to make shots ...
