CONRAD — A Week 9 game isn’t promised, so if the BCLUW football team played its final game on Friday night, the Comets would be more than content with the way the season ended. BCLUW put a beatdown on Postville to potentially close out the regular season with a Senior Night stomping, ...

WATERLOO — A pair of early turnovers paved the way for Waterloo West to get a headstart on a 45-13 victory over the Marshalltown football team on Friday night at Memorial Stadium. The host Wahawks (5-3) got on the scoreboard first with a scoop-and-score, turning a Bobcat fumble into six ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Quarterback Brock Purdy has been officially ruled out of his third straight game for the San Francisco 49ers with a toe injury and Mac Jones will start against the Atlanta Falcons Coach Kyle Shanahan also said that tight end George Kittle will return after missing the ...

OELWEIN — Emerson Vokes repeated as North Iowa Cedar League cross country champion and the Grundy Center boys finished third out of 12 scoring teams at the conference meet on Thursday night at Hickory Grove Golf Course. Vokes won with a time of 15 minutes, 41.52 seconds, more than 52 ...

IOWA CITY — New coach Ben McCollum has worked since his hiring in March to sell his program to the Iowa fan base. The results, he said, have been positive. Now it’s up to his players to deliver. “They need to have a chip on their shoulder,” McCollum said at Wednesday’s media day. ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Ethan Grunkemeyer was immediately swarmed by reporters as he emerged from the locker room after Penn State practice. As bodies and cameras enveloped him on Wednesday night, the quarterback’s eyes glanced back toward his teammates. One shouted, “Yeah Grunk! Man of ...