IOWA CITY — University of Iowa fifth-year linebacker Jayden Montgomery has been named to the 2026 Butkus Award Watch List. Montgomery is one of 51 linebackers named to the watch list this season — a nod to the storied No. 51 jersey worn by the award’s namesake, the late Dick Butkus, ...
TIMES-REPUBLICAN The Marshalltown High School football team is conducting its annual Gatorade Drive on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 10 a.m. to noon in front of the Marshalltown Hy-Vee. MHS football players and coaches will be on hand accepting donations and drinks outside the store entrance as they try to fill a trailer ahead of the upcoming season. The Bobcats unofficially kick off the season with a scrimmage against Bondurant-Farrar on Friday, Aug. 21, at Franklin Field. Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 4:30 p.m., the Marshalltown freshmen will face the visiting Bluejays at 5:30 ...
TIMES-REPUBLICAN CEDAR FALLS — The Northern Iowa women’s basketball team has unveiled its 12-game non-conference schedule for the 2026-27 season, including a home exhibition, a marquee showdown with Iowa State, and seven total home contests. The Panthers will tip off the year with an exhibition game against Upper Iowa on Oct. 26 inside the McLeod Center, offering fans their first look at the 2026-27 squad. Regular season action officially begins on Nov. 2, when UNI hosts St. Thomas for the fourth time in program history. The Panthers head to South Dakota State for their first ...
DYERSVILLE — Nearly four decades after “Field of Dreams” brought a group of dead baseball players to life with a homemade diamond on an Iowa farm, Keith Rahe and his traveling troupers are still dedicated to keeping the cornfield mystique alive. Once the long days of filming had passed ...
DYERSVILLE — Kyle Schwarber smashed two home runs into the corn behind right field to stretch his major league -leading total to 37, as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Minnesota Twins 7-1 on Thursday night in the first game at the Field of Dreams movie site in four years. Schwarber sent ...
DYERSVILLE — Major League Baseball came back to the Field of Dreams carrying a big piece of Cooperstown. The pregame pomp before the Minnesota Twins played the Philadelphia Phillies — adjacent to the farmland where the 1989 fantasy was filmed — featured 26 members of the Hall of Fame emerging from the outfield corn just as the ghost players did in the movie. With some of the loudest cheers saved for former Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt and former Twins catcher Joe Mauer, the capacity crowd of about 8,000 at the newly constructed ballpark in northeast Iowa soaked up the ...
