CEDAR FALLS — Jaxson Hinkle got into his four-point stance, played to his typical high standard until the drive was over, and jogged off the field. It was the kind of experience he could really get used to. Hinkle suited up for the North team at Saturday night’s 54th annual Iowa Shrine ...
PARIS — Tadej Pogacar won a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title on Sunday. The 27-year-old Slovenian dominated this year’s race to join Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spaniard Miguel Indurain and Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault as the only riders to win five Tours. After finishing safely in Sunday’s 21st and final stage in Paris, Pogacar finished 6 minutes, 26 seconds over Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel in the overall standings. Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates XRG teammate Isaac Del Toro, a 22-year-old Mexican making his Tour debut, was third at 9:42 back from ...
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Puerto Rico and Curaçao may be small islands, but the support they showed was massive as elite center fielders Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Both joined slugging second baseman Jeff Kent as the newest members before an estimated crowd of 12,000 fans at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, with 57 other Hall of Famers on stage — creating the largest gathering of current Hall of Famers. Jones’ speech was almost like a love letter to his home country of Curaçao. “There’s no easy way to get here ...
CHICAGO — Caitlin Clark was in awe after meeting former President Barack Obama after he surprised the WNBA All-Stars on Friday at his Presidential Center. Clark called her conversation with Obama “a moment I’ll probably remember for the rest of my life.” “It was obviously super ...
The West Marshall softball team saw firsthand how a senior can lead. Trojan shortstop Rachel Randall put up the numbers during Heart of Iowa Conference play to help her team compete in the top half of the competition-rich league, earning first-team all-conference honors for the first ...
CHICAGO — Azzi Fudd had no idea she was the first rookie to win the WNBA All-Star 3-point contest. She put forth a stellar effort in the championship round to do it. Fudd, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft by Dallas, scored 30 points in the finals to top Portland’s Bridget Carleton. “I was shocked, that’s crazy to be the first is definitely an honor,” Fudd said of being the first rookie to win. Fudd’s 30-point effort was tied for the second-most ever, equaling Sabrina Ionescu and Allie Quigley’s total. Ionescu holds the record, scoring 37 points in 2023. Fudd hit her ...
