Jan Jensen had numerous head coaching opportunities in her 24 years as an assistant on Lisa Bluder’s coaching staff at Iowa.
PITTSBURGH — You might have watched the Nebraska women's volleyball game that drew 92,003 fans in August. Or maybe you were one of the record 13.8 million viewers who tuned in for the women's basketball Final Four. I could go on. A record two million fans watched the women's World Cup in per…
SILVIS — There was a huge shakeup Wednesday at the top of the individual and team leaderboards in the 2024 NAIA Women’s National Golf Championship at TPC Deere Run.
CHICAGO — Northwestern University announced the Wildcats will be taking on the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Illinois Fighting Illini at Wrigley Field during the 2024 football season, according to a news release from the university. Those games, on Nov. 16 and Nov. 30 respectively, will be the…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Incoming University of Illinois freshman Morez Johnson Jr. is one of 30 players invited to the 2024 USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team training camp, beginning May 23 at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center.
LOS ANGELES — Harrison Butker is a three-time Super Bowl champion and one of the most accurate field goal kickers in NFL history. As such, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker was given a platform to express his views as the commencement speaker at Benedictine College. The devout Christian used the…
Oklahoma begins its quest for an unprecedented fourth consecutive national softball title on Friday. The Sooners open regional play against Cleveland State. The Sooners appear to have a shot. They have claimed the No. 2 overall seed and beat No. 1 seed Texas for the Big 12 Tournament title. …
DETROIT — Popular former Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson is no longer on the Michigan football staff after his arrest April 15 for allegedly operating while intoxicated early that morning in Ann Arbor. “He is no longer on staff,” Michigan football spokesman Dave Ablauf said Tuesday. “I can’t comment further because it’s a personnel matter.” Robinson, 33, was arrested after being involved ...
LOS ANGELES — In a temporary triumph for UCLA, the University of California Regents on Tuesday ordered the school to pay rival California the max tax but for only half the previously allotted period. By a vote of 7-1, the regents directed UCLA to give Cal an annual $10 million subsidy for the next three years — instead of six — because of a projected $50 million-per-year discrepancy in ...
BALTIMORE — As far as Baltimore fans are concerned, the NFL couldn’t have picked a better opener to the 2024 season than having the Ravens travel to Kansas City to play the Chiefs on Sept. 5. Maybe someone will come up with a name like the “Revenge or Avenge Bowl” as the bitter feeling still lingers in town from the 17-10 AFC championship game loss to two-time defending Super Bowl champs on ...
SILVIS — Playing on their home course on a wet Tuesday didn’t prove to be an advantage for the St. Ambrose University women’s golf team in the opening round of the 2024 NAIA Women’s Championships at TPC Deere Run.
Iowa head women's basketball coach Lisa Bluder announced her retirement in a letter to Hawkeye Nation on Monday.
Iowa Hawkeye women's basketball coach Lisa Bluder started her coaching career at St. Ambrose University in Davenport in 1984.
Iowa gymnastics coach Larissa Libby has resigned
Baseball
SAU women's golf excited to be part of NAIA National Championship at Deere Run.
MINNEAPOLIS — To have a mom is to know her in the context of you. Does she clean up your knee after a fall? Does she cheer your name from the bleachers or pump her fist when you take the shot? Something strange started to happen to the three Mauer kids as they were growing up in St. Paul, excelling in baseball, football and basketball. Though Teresa Mauer never talked to her sons about her ...
Baseball
Grand Canyon University and Seattle University will join the West Coast Conference beginning with the 2025-26 season, giving the league best known nationally for its basketball programs 11 full members for the first time in its history.
Seventeen additional Caitlin Clark games to be broadcast in Quad Cities.
Shai Erdrich, Muscatine’s Becca Haag and Alyssa Schumacher from the St. Ambrose softball team have been named first-team All-Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference, and Emilee Erickson was selected to the second team.
College baseball
Iowa adds former Northwestern quarterback Brendan Sullivan
Augustana College softball standout Nadia Ranieri continues to pile up the accomplishments for the Vikings
CHICAGO — That first night in Kenosha, Wis., Nathan Fox remembers, was like something from a horror movie. A horde of older teammates was outside his dorm room, he said, screaming and sounding a siren and pounding the wall so hard it actually shook. It was 2015, and Fox had just arrived at training camp for the Northwestern University football squad. He had heard the older players’ taunts of ...
Athletic departments across the country are trying to figure out the best way to manage the name, image and likeness landscape when it comes to athletes earning endorsement money.
The Iowa Hawkeyes bolstered their quarterback room with the commitment of a transfer signal caller from a Big Ten West rival on Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES — Thirty years ago, Snoop Dogg was sipping on gin and juice, with his mind on his money and his money on his mind. These days, the Long Beach-based rapper and business man is running a company that sells gin and juice products, with his mind apparently on college football. Introducing the newly renamed "Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop," which will ...
Vikings take high hopes into CCIW Tournament
Associated Press photographers were there for San Diego Padres’ Manny Machado’s acrobatic play in the infield against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Mystik Dan won by a nose in a photo-finish of the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby with jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. aboard at Churchill Downs.