DES MOINES — Marshalltown senior Preston Johnson successfully defended his Iowa Alliance Conference meet title in leading the Bobcats to their first team championship on Wednesday at the James W. Cownie Soccer Complex. Johnson won his second-straight Alliance meet title with a blistering ...
CONRAD — The BCLUW volleyball team was bested by Dunkerton in an all-Iowa Star Conference final at the Comet Invite on Saturday in a rematch of last year’s Class 1A state quarterfinal clash. The seventh-ranked Raiders (20-10) toppled the No. 12 Comets (27-12) in Saturday’s finals, 25-19, 25-17, to close out the eight-team tournament with the only two ranked teams still playing. Dunkerton also defeated BCLUW in a five-set thriller last November in Coralville, and the two teams had not reunited since until Saturday. BCLUW beat PCM (21-12, 21-5), Gladbrook-Reinbeck (21-14, 21-15) ...
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The Drake women’s basketball team will begin its Missouri Valley Conference slate with a pair of league matchups before the Christmas holiday. Drake is set to host Evansville on Dec. 18 before welcoming Southern Illinois to Des Moines on Dec. 20. The Bulldogs’ final game of 2026 will be their first of a four-game road swing with a Dec. 30 trip to Peoria for a date with Bradley. Head coach Allison Pohlman’s squad will then ring in the new year with trips to Indiana State (Jan. 3), Illinois State (Jan. 7), and Illinois-Chicago (Jan. 9). Drake will return home to ...
Los Angeles Rams offensive lineman Alaric Jackson to had his two-game suspension for punching a member of the Buffalo Bills reduced to one game on Wednesday after appealing the initial ruling. Hearing officer Derrick Brooks, jointly appointed by the NFL and the NFLPA, reduced the ...
IOWA CITY — University of Iowa second-year receiver and return specialist Evan James has been named to the Jet Award Midseason Watch List, which honors the most outstanding return specialist in college football. The announcement was made Wednesday by the Jet Award Foundation. James ranks ...
Community members, local leaders, and 116 golf enthusiasts recently gathered at Elmwood Country Club for the Jerry Johnson Legacy Pro-Am tournament, raising $60,000 to support local first-generation college students and student-athletes at Marshalltown Community College. The inaugural ...
