This season on “Survivor: Philippines,” Denise Stapley, the sex therapist from Cedar Rapids, has continued a little known but proven trend: Iowans do well on the long-running CBS reality game show. Granted, their numbers are small in the ranks of “Survivor” veterans, but when they do get the chance to play, they either do [...]

Update: Third time is still a charm for Iowa City native Paul Nelson, as his “Jeopardy!” winnings climbed to $45,400 Tuesday morning (11/6/12). He’ll have a two-week break while the popular answer-and-question game show goes into its Teachers’ Tournament. After that, Nelson, 23, a legislative correspondent in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Washington office, will be back [...]

And then there were two. The other four members of Denise Stapley’s “Survivor” tribe have been kicked off the island, after four failed attempts in the team Immunity Challenges and four trips to Tribal Council. The Cedar Rapids mental health counselor and sex therapist is proving a worthy opponent on the CBS-TV endurance test, with her [...]