NEW YORK — Maryland basketball has entered the uneasy portion of its program’s history. This week the Terrapins will finish their second-to-last season as an Atlantic Coast Conference charter member. In 15 months, Maryland joins the Big Ten, and games against tonight’s NIT semifinal opponent Iowa will occur annually in conference play. In November, Maryland announced [...]
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CANCUN, Mexico — Malcolm Armstead once had Iowa fans more interested in his services than how the real Hawkeyes performed on the basketball court. At Chipola (Fla.) Junior College in 2008-09, Armstead took his team to the national junior-college tournament, where it finished third. Armstead, a point guard, and his teammate Torye Pelham tried to package [...]
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IOWA CITY — Nearly a year ago the Iowa men’s basketball team limped into a pre-Thanksgiving match-up against Campbell after suffering a 23-point loss to Creighton. The Hawkeyes’ fragile egos were nearly shattered in a 16-point loss to Campbell. After a porous defensive effort in the first half, the Hawkeyes continued their defensive woes and made [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Ryan Jones turned around and watched the replay on the scoreboard. He earned that right. The Cedar Rapids Kernels center fielder made one of the best catches you’ll ever see last night in the second inning of a 10-2 loss to Wisconsin at Veterans Memorial Stadium. He sprinted back and to his [...]
continue »Thank you to Jackie Mormann, mother of former West Delaware pitcher Mitch Mormann, for contributing this story to us. Mormann’s Gem Clinches NBC Title Mitch Mormann, former West Delaware student athlete and son of Randy and Jackie Mormann, spent the summer in Santa Barbara California, playing baseball in the California Collegiate League, where he was [...]
continue »A Wichita State baseball player has died in a traffic accident in Iowa. West Des Moines police say 21-year-old Mitch Caster was killed early Monday in an accident on Interstate 35 in West Des Moines. Police say he was driving south on the interstate when his car crossed the center line and hit a northbound [...]
continue »By Sunday night he ought to know for sure if he’s going to be a Seattle Mariner or Nebraska Cornhusker. But as of now, Jon Keller‘s baseball future is still uncertain. The Cedar Rapids Xavier grad was an 11th-round draft pick of the Mariners in June but hasn’t signed a professional contract and has until [...]
continue »Right now, Patrick Lala is a Madison Mallard and Scott Schebler a Green Bay Bullfrog. Who knows what they’ll be a month from now. The former Metro prep duo was taken last week in the 2010 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft: Schebler in the 26th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers and Lala in the 29th [...]
continue »CEDAR FALLS — Chad Arp graduated from the University of Northern Iowa last weekend with a degree in Geographical Information Systems. Think high-tech mapping. He walked across the stage at commencement ceremonies and was handed his diploma by school president Ben Allen. Talk about cruel irony. “It was pretty hard to shake his hand,” Arp [...]
continue »Former Cedar Rapids Prairie multi-sport athlete Scott Schebler has verbally committed to continue his college baseball career next year at Wichita State. Schebler is a freshman outfielder at Des Moines Area Community College and will have three seasons of eligibility with the Shockers. He is hitting .462 with a .769 slugging percentage in DMACC’s first [...]
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