From Tonya Slezak Arnold on last week’s feature on the Cedar Rapids Panthers girls’ basketball team. Slezak Arnold played for the Cedar Rapids Panthers from 1985 through ’87, was a four-sport athlete at Prairie, graduating in 1991, and played basketball at Mount Mercy and Coe. I was fortunate to be a member of the first [...]
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Editor’s note: Nicole Dighton of Cedar Rapids is the mother of two active children. Her daughter Kennedy, 14, played for the last Cedar Rapids Panthers team that her husband, Rob, helped coach. Kennedy and her son Carson, 8, play other sports as well, and Nicole volunteers with the Cedar Hills Booster Club. By Nicole Dighton, [...]
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(Reuters) – Jason Collins, a veteran center in the National Basketball Association (NBA), announced that he is gay, becoming the first active player from any major U.S. professional sports league to publicly reveal his homosexuality. Collins, a free agent who played with the Washington Wizards and Boston Celtics during the NBA’s 2012-13 regular season, made the announcement in an interview with Sports [...]
continue »CEDAR FALLS – Sneakers, practice jerseys and equipment clutter the purple and gold locker room. A locker on the left side of the room shows some semblance of organization among the disarray. It’s housed Northern Iowa senior Jacqui Kalin for six years. Inspiration forms the spine of the locker in the form of quotes from [...]
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Chelsea Poppens and Anna Prins officially closed the book on their Iowa State women’s basketball careers Monday. The Seattle Storm selected Poppens 18th overall in the second round of the WNBA draft and Connecticut picked Prins at No. 23. The duo is the 11th and 12th Cyclones to ever get drafted in the WNBA. The [...]
continue »AMES – Back in October and November whispers of the NBA draft infiltrated the Iowa City and Ames’ campuses. Iowa’s Devyn Marble commanded the attention of scouts. At Iowa State, seniors Korey Lucious and Will Clyburn attracted the eyes of NBA organizations. Come April the professional aspirations continue, but it’s in different locker rooms. The [...]
continue »Chris Jans spent his Easter weekend smiling. The reason why occurred days in the past when Wichita State upended Ohio State in the Elite Eight. But every half hour or so, the Shockers associate head coach couldn’t contain his joy. “I just start chuckling,” Jans said. “I don’t know how to put it into words, [...]
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