State/Local Sports

WAUKON — Rarely is a season-opening loss a good thing. Waukon football coach Chad Beerman can make a case that his team was propelled by that early one-point setback to rival...

Teams competed for the Prairie Invitational Saturday at Cedar Rapids Prairie High School

A closer look at Saturday’s Big 12 football game between Iowa State (1-1, 1-0) and No. 18 Oklahoma (1-1, 0-1) at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames. Kickoff is 6:30 p.m. (ABC). Iowa State offense Iowa...

MARION — After a quiet first half, Linn-Mar and Iowa City High more than made up for it in the second. The Lions led 14-7 at the break, then exploded for 36 second-half points to outlast the...

MANCHESTER — The game was expected to be competitive on paper. West Delaware and Western Dubuque played on grass, which led to a result few would have predicted. After giving up the opening...

Cedar Rapids Prairie beat Iowa City Liberty 48-14 in North Liberty on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020.

Linn-Mar beat Iowa City High 50-36 in Marion on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020.

IOWA CITY — Cedar Rapids Prairie’s football team keeps playing opponents coming off season pauses. And keeps making their resumptions a less than pleasant experience. The Hawks smashed...

SOLON — The first drive said it all. Eleven plays (all on the ground), 72 yards. Touchdown. “We knew we were the more physical team,” Solon lineman Zach Harp said. “We...

West Delaware hosts Western Dubuque in Manchester for week 6 of prep football on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020.

We’re down to two weeks remaining in the Iowa high school football regular season as the calendar flips to October. And it’s a busy Friday night with Iowa City public schools back on the...

The first Friday night of October brings the penultimate week of the Iowa high school football regular season. It’s a week full of top-10 matchups across the state, although two of those...

AMES — It’s easy to measure growth in physical things. Take humans, for example. As children, we step up to the door jam, stretch out our necks, maybe get on our tippy toes and our...

DUBUQUE — It wasn’t perfect, though it never was going to be. There was no way it could be. But it was good, and it was a win over a quality opponent. And it was a game. That was the...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The deck was stacked against Cedar Rapids Washington from the start. The Warriors faced a short week made even shorter by a Saturday game last week. They lost their starting...

WILTON — The image of the night? Wilton players doing a spin-around after every ace, 14 of them in all. The symbol of the night? A student hoisting a custodian’s broom after it was...

Cedar Rapids Washington hosts Cedar Falls at Kingston Stadium in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020.

A 6-foot-8, 200-pound high school player who is a good scorer, 3-point shooter, rebounder and passer? Yes, Fran McCaffery will take one of those. The Iowa men’s basketball coach did just that...

Another week of Iowa high school football, another week of Iowa High School Athletic Association transfer drama. The latest: Iowa commit Arland Bruce IV is now eligible to play at Ankeny after moving...

CEDAR RAPIDS — This week was a breeze for Grant Schultz. Ah, that’s not true. Not for any high school activities director right now. They’re worried about the health of their...