CEDAR RAPIDS – If ever a hockey club needed something positive to happen for it, it was the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders. Saturday night was positive and victorious. Hallelujah! The Riders ended a seven-game losing streak with a 5-2 win over Youngstown before 2,311 fans at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena. Five different guys scored for [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Steve Michalek wore a plain white goaltender’s helmet Wednesday night in the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders’ 3-1 win over Lincoln at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena, not the painted Harvard College mask he has been wearing. Don’t read anything into that, however. “It’s my old high-school helmet,” the RoughRiders goaltender said. Michalek reiterated his [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — It goes high school/prep school, followed by juniors, then college. If you’re good enough, add pros to the list after college. That’s the order for the career of the typical high-level American hockey player. “I’m kind of doing it backward,” pointed out Steve Michalek. The 19-year-old goaltender went from a Connecticut prep [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Harvard goaltender Steve Michalek arrived in town Tuesday and has officially joined the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders, Riders coach/general manager Mark Carlson said. Michalek, 19, played in 24 games last season as a freshman for Harvard, going 7-7-8 with a 3.19 goals against average. He had not played in a game this season [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders have placed goaltender Stephen Michalek on their protected list. Now will he actually be joining the RoughRiders? “There is nothing definitive, yet,” RoughRiders head coach/general manager Mark Carlson said Monday. Michalek, 19, is a sophomore goaltender at Harvard University who has yet to play a game this season. [...]

The University of Iowa rose one spot in the annual best college rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. The UI rose one spot from last year when looking at both its overall national rank — 71st — and its rank when looking at only public universities — 28th. That was among the 268 [...]

“The future is made of the same stuff as the present.” — Simone Weil, French philosopher Way back in the shadowy past — I’d say around, oh, 2009 — there was a lot of talk about what life would be like once the economy settled down from the explosive disruption whose timeline-epicenter was autumn 2008. [...]

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Anna Quindlen will address the Grinnell College Class of 2011 at the college’s commencement at 10 a.m. May 23 on central campus. Quindlen, the author of five novels and seven nonfiction books, has been a contributor for more than 35 years to some of the country’s most influential newspapers and [...]