Now is our time to lead. A chance to quarterback the Great Comeback, to pass the baton to the latest and greatest generation. These next few months could lead to significant ramifications lasting long after the fact.
It’ll be a different type of summer sports season that debuts on June 15.
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Last week Kuemper Catholic learned it would be searching for a new football coach and activities director.
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Last Wednesday’s announcement by Governor Kim Reynolds gave the green light for summer sports in Iowa to take place, but more questions were left than answers given.
A well-crafted and thought-out sports book hits a little different. It’s pure, painting a vivid picture of a significant moment in our history.
Meeting dates for the 2020 16” softball season have been updated as the Dist. I softball league is still planning to have a 2020 season.
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Neither rainstorms nor threat of tornado has stopped the Bud Open 16-inch Softball Tournament in the past.
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Editor’s note: This is the eighth part in a multi-part series as coaches reflect on the seniors who would have been playing sports this spring.
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Editor’s note: This is the seventh part in a multi-part series as coaches reflect on the seniors who would have been playing sports this spring.
STORM LAKE: Finding a job after graduation may have been the most important consideration Andrew Boell had in selecting a college. It’s what he thought about as an 18-year-old graduate of Carroll High School in 2016.
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Editor’s note: This is the sixth part in a multi-part series as coaches reflect on the seniors who would have been playing sports this spring.
Editor’s note: This is the fifth part in a multi-part series as coaches reflect on the seniors who would have been playing sports this spring.
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Editor's note: This is the fourth part in a multi-part series as coaches reflect on the seniors who would have been playing sports this spring.
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The Carroll Merchants Baseball team, a member of the Pioneer Collegiate Baseball League, announced Friday that the 2020 baseball season is canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the uncertain events of the COVID-19 virus continue to unfold, the Dist. I 16” softball league in Carroll is still planning to have a season this year.
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It seemed there wasn’t anything that could keep this year’s returning seniors down.
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Editor’s note: This is the second part in a multi-part series as coaches reflect on the seniors who would have been playing sports this spring.
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Editor’s note: This is the first part in a multi-part series as coaches reflect on the seniors who would have been playing sports this spring.
After a little less than a month’s wait, the search for the next Carroll High girls basketball coach has ended.
Following Friday’s recommendations to keep Iowa schools closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year due to the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), all spring activities of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union and the Iowa High School Athletic Association are canceled.
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For 20 minutes on Friday night, the Carroll Athletic Field lights shone brightly.
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The NBA playoffs were set to begin this coming Saturday, but with essentially the whole world on hold due to the outbreak of COVID-19, many of the league’s biggest stars have been handed an endless amount of free time.
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In an ever-changing landscape, the summer sports domino was knocked over on Friday afternoon.
For 2020 spring sports, athletes might gain a little bit of flexibility.
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Events for Iowa’s high school Unified Activities partners will remain prohibited through April 30 as Governor Kim Reynolds announced an extension of school closures through that date on Thursday afternoon.
Everything coming back from Tucson seemed normal. As it turns out the seven games played in Arizona would be the last bit of normalcy the team would experience this season.
STORM LAKE: Buena Vista University senior Clayton Christian put his mother on a plane in Tucson, Arizona, this month, and watched her take off on a flight back home, to Glidden.
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For weeks, everyone could see the disease spreading from the east westward. This time, they didn’t close the schools, and sports continued as scheduled. Then, it got worse, and schools were closed out of necessity. St. Anthony stopped allowing visitors. Eventually, there was no choice — game…
BRYANT, ARKANSAS: By early last week, I had stopped looking for televised sports. When I have downtime (usually that’s rare), I settle in and find a game, often accompanied on the couch by my sons J.D. (11) and Luke (8). A few days earlier, I had flipped to our CBS affiliate during what was …
Drake University has postponed the 2020 Drake Relays presented by Xtream powered by Mediacom along with related special events and programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 111th edition of the event was scheduled for April 22–25 at Drake Stadium.
Tuesday, March 10 might be remembered as the last normal day that Chris Cuellar had at his office.
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Seemingly overnight, the whole situation for the spring sports season in Iowa went up in the air.
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Two area athletes were honored with the highest honor given out in basketball competition.
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Of Carroll’s four losses this season, 75 percent of them came to teams that finished either second or fourth in the class 3A State tournament.
Teams responsible for 75 percent of the Carroll boys basketball losses this season have made the most out of their State tournament runs.
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For two Kuemper seniors, their winter work did not go unnoticed.
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A trio of Carroll juniors highlighted the All-Raccoon River Conference girls basketball lists this winter.
The IKM-Manning girls basketball team came within one game of another berth in the Iowa Girls Athletic Union State basketball tournament.
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Throughout the winter there was no question who the leader of the Knights girls basketball team was.
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Jeff Puffett of Carroll has rolled plenty of perfect, 300 games in his bowling career. But Nos. 27 and 28 stand out from all the others.
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The Carroll Chamber of Commerce’s 14th annual Hoop It Up youth basketball tournament rebounded well with 70 teams competing in boys third-through-ninth-grade and girls sixth- and eighth-grade divisions Feb. 22 and 23 in Carroll.
North Scott started out the 4A tournament with a 20-point win over Clear Creek Amana on Tuesday morning.
Iowa City High 59, Prairie, Cedar Rapids 40
So far 16 teams have qualified to the State tournament with eight in both class 1A and 2A earning their place on Saturday night.
Throughout the first half of the game, there was no question: West Sioux was the stronger team.
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With just a few minutes left in the third quarter, sophomore sharpshooter Kaleb Booth held up his hands, begging for the open pass. He knew he could change the game.
Once January came around the new year seemed to bring a new focus for the Coon Rapids-Bayard basketball team.
Early in the second quarter of Tuesday’s class 1A district semi-final game IKM-Manning had climbed the mountain an taken the lead from St. Albert.
A fight for their lives was nearing its second week, and so far the Kuemper Catholic boys’ basketball team had downed all of their challengers.
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For the second time this season they can call themselves champions of the Twin Lakes Conference.
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