DES MOINES — The Marshalltown girls’ swimming and diving squad won 11 of 12 events en route to a 126-57 rout of Des Moines Lincoln in Tuesday’s Iowa Alliance Conference dual meet. The Bobcats (8-1, 5-1) won all but the final race and even swept a pair of events along the way. ...

PLEASANT HILL — The Class 4A boys state golf tournament will be without a Bobcat for the second time in the last three years. Marshalltown came up shy of its quest to get at least one golfer back to state for the second year in a row at Tuesday’s district golf meet hosted by Southeast ...

IOWA CITY — University of Iowa senior guard Bennett Stirtz has been named to the 10-player preseason All-Big Ten team, it was announced Tuesday by the league office. The Hawkeyes have been represented on the preseason All-Big Ten team in six of the last seven seasons as voted upon by a ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado coach Deion Sanders will undergo a procedure later Tuesday that’s related to his blood clots, with the hope of being back at practice the next day and on the sideline this weekend against Iowa State. The surgery is called an aspiration thrombectomy, which ...

The U.S. will play in Puerto Rico in March for the FIBA Women’s World Cup qualifier. The Americans, who have already qualified for the World Cup next year in Germany, are in a pool with Italy, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Senegal and Spain. The U.S. will open competition on March 11 vs. ...

WATERLOO — The BCLUW volleyball team fell to eventual champion Marion in the quarterfinals of the Waterloo Columbus Tournament on Saturday. The Class 1A No. 7 Comets went 2-2 on the day, starting pool play with a pair of straight-set wins. BCLUW (22-6) beat back Don Bosco, 21-17, 21-10, and ...