ATLANTA (Reuters) - Louisville won the 75th edition of the NCAA men’s basketball championship on Monday, beating Michigan 82-76 in a pulsating final in front of more than 74,000 fans at the Georgia Dome. The Cardinals overcame a slow start in which they twice trailed by 12 points in the first half to outscore Michigan 45-38 in the second half and capture [...]

IOWA CITY — You see 6-foot-4, you think “inside presence.” You don’t think “America’s most prolific outside shooter.” But that’s what Michigan’s Kate Thompson is. The senior leads the nation in 3-point goals per game (3.86) and ranks ninth in 3-point percentage (.482). Thompson brings her long-range act to Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday when the [...]

All Michigan needs is for the 4-7 Iowa Hawkeyes to beat Nebraska on Friday, then turn around and pop 11-0 Ohio State in Columbus on Saturday. Impossible? Hardly. Difficult to imagine? Pretty much. Nebraska and Michigan are tied the Legends Division at 6-1. With Nebraska’s 23-9 home win over a depleted Michigan on Oct. 27, [...]

Michigan coach Brady Hoke sidestepped the Denard Robinson questions during his Monday news conference. Robinson, Michigan’s senior star quarterback, has been out since taking a hit on his right elbow and suffering nerve damage against Nebraska Oct. 27. The NCAA record holder for rushing yards in a season for a QB (1,702 in 2010) is [...]

It’s not a magic gun that can blow away cancer cells or eradicate a disease. But Harvey Halverson’s old Remington 721 rifle with scope is doing the next best thing. In less than seven years this gun, worth maybe $400 today, has been sold 55 times at 12 benefits, raising $40,125 for people in need, [...]

IOWA CITY — Kelly Krei’s most comfortable place is not in front of a microphone. “I’m an engineering major, so I kind of dread it,” Krei said, referring to a postgame Senior Day speech Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. “But it’s going to be nice to thank everybody. “I’ll put on a smile and talk loud.” [...]

Our driveway at home here in Cedar Rapids is approximately 15 yards long, tops. About the length of a decent RV camper, plus change. This is a paramount component in my worldview in regard to residential real estate. Up until last winter, when my wife and I moved here to Eastern Iowa, where we lived [...]

IOWA CITY — Morgan Johnson has the size. Rachel Sheffer has the speed. And that makes for an intriguing battle in the paint when the Iowa Hawkeyes visit Michigan for a key Big Ten women’s basketball game Thursday night. Tipoff is 7 p.m. (Iowa time) at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich. “It’s going to be [...]

IOWA CITY — The Big Ten continues to rank as the best league nationally, with nine teams fitting among the top 61 in the latest RPI (Ratings Performance Index) rankings. The question is, how many of those teams will compete in the NCAA Tournament? Three times in its history the Big Ten has qualified seven teams [...]

Former Cedar Rapids Jefferson prep Ryan Garman has been named a college baseball preseason all-American choice for NCAA Division II. Garman is a senior at Grand Valley State University in Michigan who went 9-1 with a 1.70 earned run average last season for the Lakers. He transferred to GVSU from Johnson County Community College in [...]