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Bobcats outlast Tigers in girls tennis opener

ELDORA — The season-opening meet for the Marshalltown girls’ tennis team got canceled, another dual got moved, and a new opener was added. The new-look Bobcats rolled with all the changes and won anyway. Marshalltown kicked off the second season of fall tennis in Iowa with a 6-3 victory ...

Fever pull away from Liberty, 106-92

INDIANAPOLIS — Kelsey Mitchell scored 20 of her 28 points in the first half, and Caitlin Clark added 22 points and 10 assists to lead the Indiana Fever to a 106-92 victory over the New York Liberty on Tuesday night. Indiana has won seven of its last nine, and this one came after coach ...

Fever coach says divisiveness ‘will not win’

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White has had enough of the conversations around the WNBA this season that aren’t about basketball. On Tuesday, she finally lashed out. The 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year and one of the original Fever players angrily defended herself after she ...

Lauck, Pieper named to Lombardi Watch List

TIMES-REPUBLICAN IOWA CITY — University of Iowa fourth-year offensive linemen Trevor Lauck and Kade Pieper have been named to the 2026 Lombardi Award Watch List, it was announced Tuesday. The Lombardi Award is presented annually to the college football lineman or linebacker who best embodies the values and spirit of legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi: character, discipline, and excellence both on and off the field. Pieper (6-foot-3, 301 pounds), a 2026 Walter Camp, Sporting News, and Athlon preseason first-team All-American, started all 13 games at guard in 2025. He is coming off ...

Welcome to the Fire Pit

The fact Portland has shown up for its new WNBA team is, in many ways, unsurprising given the city’s long history of embracing women’s sports. The expansion Fire rank fourth in the league with an average attendance of about 14,500 fans per game. The only teams drawing more are the Golden ...

Carrington contends foul call wasn’t ‘white privilege’

DiJonai Carrington of the Chicago Sky says she never claimed that the assessment of a Flagrant 2 foul on her on Saturday in a game against Indiana was the result of white privilege. Carrington came from behind and hit the Fever’s Sophie Cunningham in the head and neck on a fast-break layup, ...