With the Big East facing yet another departure of a football member, DePaul men’s basketball coach Oliver Purnell said the league’s non-football schools need to seriously consider their future within or without the Big East structure. “I think we have to have our heads in the sand not to be thinking about some of those [...]

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference has filed a lawsuit against Maryland seeking full payment of the approximately $53 million exit fee for the school’s move to the Big Ten. According to the 10-page lawsuit, the ACC said the school must pay $52,266,342, which is three times the league’s annual operating budget for [...]

CANCUN, Mexico — Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery said the Big Ten’s addition of Maryland on Monday coupled with the Rutgers’ likely entry on Tuesday will help his program with recruiting. “In terms of location, I think it’s great,” McCaffery said before Monday’s practice at the Cancun Challenge. “You get two teams from the East. I [...]

Nearly 30 years ago, Wayne Jerman was among a group of young police officers in Maryland sitting around a table discussing career aspirations. One of the officers piped up. “You don’t have to worry about Wayne,” the officer said that day. “He’ll be a chief someday.” It became a reality on Oct. 29, when Jerman [...]

DES MOINES — Attorney General Tom Miller has joined nine other attorneys general in signing a legal brief in support of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The brief, which was expected to be filed by the end of business on Friday, specifically supports the authority of the U.S. Congress to require people to [...]

A microbiologist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been named the next director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Mark Rasmussen, supervisory microbiologist and director of the Division of Animal and Food Microbiology at the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine in Laurel, Maryland, will begin work no later [...]

Brenda Frese has allowed her life to slow down a bit. “As a coach, you’re always trying to stay ahead,” said Frese, a Cedar Rapids native and University of Maryland women’s basketball coach. “You’re always into that hectic pace. “But now, from my end, I’m looking more at the now instead of the future.” When [...]

SourceMedia Group’s Jeff Linder was a member of the Associated Press women’s basketball ranking committee last season. If he is appointed again next year, his preseason Top 25 will look something very close to this: 1. BAYLOR (34-3, NCAA Final Four in 2010-11) — An easy choice for No. 1. Coach Kim Mulkey welcomes back [...]

MARION — Kiah Stokes’ decision became concrete at 11 p.m. Wednesday. That’s midnight, Eastern Time. Her future time zone. Kiah Stokes made the call to Geno Auriemma on Thursday, giving him an oral commitment to play women’s basketball next year for the University of Connecticut. “I’m filled with all kinds of emotions,” Stokes said at [...]

MARION — Kiah Stokes is close. Stokes, the highly recruited basketball player from Linn-Mar High School, said Tuesday morning that she may have a decision on her college plans as soon as Thursday. A small press conference is tentatively planned after school that day. She said she has not dropped any of her “final five” [...]