They’ve hooked the Horns. Now, they go after the hosts. Coming off their two most impressive outings of the season, the Iowa Hawkeyes face San Diego in the Surf-N-Slam Classic final on Sunday at the Jenny Craig Pavilion in San Diego. Tipoff is 4 p.m. CST. Iowa (10-3) hammered No. 20 Texas, 86-63, late Friday [...]
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Fourth of July fireworks show above San Diego Bay was over before it was supposed to start after a malfunction caused the display that was planned to last nearly 20 minutes to burn up all at once. The Coast Guard says the mishap occurred minutes before the scheduled opening of the Big Bay Boom show. Guard spokesman [...]
continue »Classical concert pianist Gustavo Romero will perform a recital at Coe College on Sunday, Oct. 9, beginning at 4 p.m. in Sinclair Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, with no tickets required. For the past 12 years, Romero has focused each recital on an individual composer. His upcoming performance at Coe [...]
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A study led by Iowa State University psychology professor Gary Wells is offering clear guidelines to law enforcement agencies nationwide on how to administer photo lineups to minimize the chance for eyewitness mistakes, along with the research to back up those recommended practices. Results released Monday indicate that showing lineup photos to eyewitnesses one [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Colleagues and friends of Jon Cushing, co-owner of Tektivity Inc., are mourning his sudden death Monday in San Diego, Calif. An avid runner, Cushing, 56, suffered a fatal heart attack while jogging. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful. Cushing, executive vice president of Tektivity, and his wife, Kim, were assisting their daughter with her recent move [...]
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What should high schools do when, on average, only about 30 percent of their students are graduating from college in four years? At College Community, the answer is to change the game. The school district is introducing a new school-within-a-school to 100 of its incoming 10th-grade students that uses an approach focusing more on practical, real-world knowledge. [...]
continue »A lot of Luck Yesterday, Stanford Quarterback Andrew Luck released a short little statement that might have been the biggest decision of his life. Luck, a junior quarterback who led the Cardinal to an Orange Bowl win on Tuesday night, decided to stay in college for his senior year instead of going to the NFL. [...]
continue »OK, it’s down to little brother, Jordan, now. Linn-Mar guard Matt Bohannon gave a verbal commitment Friday afternoon to play college basketball in 2011-12 at the University of Northern Iowa. Bohannon is a 6-foot-4 guard who will be the third member of his family to play D-I basketball. Oldest brother, Jason, just finished a fine career at [...]
continue »(This story was written for the Saturday, April 10, 2010 edition of The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.) George Nissen, inventor of the trampoline and known for doing handstands wherever he went, died Wednesday (April 7) in San Diego. He was 96. Now, the native Iowan is probably doing handstands in heaven. “That’s what somebody [...]
continue »SAN DIEGO – Cedar Rapids Jefferson’s Kellen Sweeney did play in Sunday’s AFLAC All-American High School Baseball Classic, going 0-for-2 in a designated hitter role. The game ended in a 4-4 tie between the West squad and East. Sweeney has a torn ligament in his right elbow and will undergo Tommy John surgery later this month. [...]
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