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Just as the girls state basketball tournament wraps up and the boys tip off, we open up the track and field season here in ...

The former Ballard (Huxley) prep star cruised to victory in the 5,000 Thursday in a meet record 15:11.27. The Iowa all-time ...

2011 — The No. 21 Connecticut Huskies win their seventh Big East championship by winning five games in as many days. Kemba Walker shatters the tournament scoring record, getting 19 points in the ninth ...

Charnessa Reid, a junior at Winston-Salem State, warms up during practice on Friday, March 7, 2025, at Civitan Park in ...

Authorities conducting a welfare check on a western Iowa woman encountered an armed suspect earlier today. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office says deputies arriving at the scene in Harlan a ...

-Katie Dinnebier is Mid-Major Player of the Year finalist: ...

-Tytan Anderson, Trey Campbell honored on All-MVC teams: ...

Section 9 track and field athletes have earned a number of top seeds for Saturday's New York State Federation championships at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island. 55-meters (38 ...

You need a bit of luck to win championships and have to keep everybody believing.” Western put up some safeguards, specifically on the men’s side, to minimize injury risk. The missing athletes ...

Liberty raced past Western Kentucky on Saturday, and got help from Kennesaw State to become the outright Conference USA ...