TORONTO — Kelsey Mitchell scored 33 points to set a WNBA season scoring record, Caitlin Clark had 28 points and matched a season high with 14 assists and the Indiana Fever beat the Toronto Tempo 103-85 on Friday night for their eighth win in 10 games. With a 3-pointer in the third quarter, ...
NEW YORK — When Lisa Bluder first met Billie Jean King, the tennis icon signed a piece of paper saying: "pressure is a privilege, go Iowa basketball." Bluder put that up in the Hawkeyes' locker room as a constant reminder to her teams. "I've always admired Billie Jean," Bluder said in a ...
NEW YORK — The WNBA is set to resume it season Thursday after a nearly three-week break for the women's FIBA World Cup. It will be a sprint to the finish with each team having four games left. While the playoffs teams are set, their positioning is still up from grabs. With over 50 players competing in the World Cup teams were left without many of their stars as they prepared for the final seven days of the regular season. "I think we have to understand we can't use these next four games as an opportunity for excuses," Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu said. "Obviously, we had the ...
The College Football Playoff says it can’t change the outcome of any games played during the regular season but notes that its selection committee relies on various measures beyond wins and losses. The CFP issued its statement on Thursday, following the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee’s announcement a day earlier that it also doesn’t have the authority to overturn the result of No. 19 Michigan’s controversial 13-12 victory over Western Michigan on Sept. 5. Michigan won on a Hail Mary pass after the replay official had put one second back on the clock when ...
Caitlin Clark doesn’t have much longer to wait for her first signature shoe to come out. They will be available starting Oct. 1 in the U.S. and a week earlier in China. “I’m just super excited,” she told The Associated Press in Germany last week. “I look down at my feet and I’m, ...
The always-daunting competition of the Joe August Invitational was met head-on by the Marshalltown boys’ golf team. Especially junior Joe Greazel. Greazel carded two birdies and two bogeys — all on the back nine — to land medalist honors at the 11-team tournament Thursday at Elmwood ...
