Making the decision to return to the University of Illinois baseball team was a no-brainer for Moline’s Brody Harding.
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Brian Battie, who transferred to Auburn for the 2023 season, was reportedly shot in the head in his hometown of Sarasota, Florida, and his brother was killed.
ATLANTA — Possibly as early as next week, college athletics could change forever. The catalysts are three lawsuits against the NCAA and power conferences that are expected to be settled, with the NCAA owing $2.8 billion in damages, according to reporting by Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger. The …
Substance abuse issues derailed Virginia lacrosse player's Ben Wayer's life. He left school and entered treatment. Now, he's back and playing at an All-American level.
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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 person. The WNBA last year produced its most-watched season in 21 years — and that was before Caitlin Clark ...
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 final two home games of the season. Northwestern lost 10-7 to Iowa at Wrigley Field on Nov. 4 last ...
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 opportunity to give some radical thoughts and controversial opinions during a 20-minute speech ...
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. Texas won the Big 12 regular season title and claimed the top overall seed for the first time. Reese Atwood was Big 12 Player of the Year after racking up a nation's best 83 RBIs. She headlines a Texas squad that leads the nation with a .379 batting average.
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
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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 ...
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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.
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