IOWA CITY -- Cedar Rapids Kennedy continues to surge. Iowa City High continues to slump.Kennedy capitalized on two early turnovers and held City High to 31 total yards and four first downs in a 40-14 Mississippi Valley Conference Mississippi Division rout Friday night at Bates ...

A dozen key area football games for Week 9:IOWA CITY WEST at WATERLOO EASTTime and site: 7:15 p.m. Friday, at WaterlooRecords and rankings: Class 4A second-ranked West is 8-0 overall, 5-0 MVC Mississippi Division; East is 5-3, 3-2.Notable: West has absolutely steamrolled through the regular season, ...

MARION — Who'da thunk?There's no way these Linn-Mar Lions would have guessed midway through the football season they'd be entertaining serious playoff hopes heading into Week 9. Yet here they are now doing just that after a surprising 33-20 win Friday night over Iowa City ...

A dozen key area football games for Week 8:CEDAR RAPIDS PRAIRIE at CEDAR RAPIDS WASHINGTONTime and site: 7:15 p.m. Thursday, at Kingston StadiumTV: KCRG 9.2Records and rankings: Prairie is 4-3 overall, 2-2 MVC Valley Division; Washington is 2-5, 0-4.Notable: It's far from a given that 3-6 ...

CEDAR FALLS -- It's almost as if Stephanie Jenks runs on autopilot."I just let my body do what it wants to do," she said.What her body wants to do is run fast. Faster than anybody else.Jenks got out fast, won the individual title with relative ...

A dozen key area football games for Week 7:WILTON at IOWA CITY REGINATime and site: 7 p.m. Friday, at ReginaRecords and rankings: Wilton is 5-1 overall, 4-0 Class 1A District 6; No. 1 Regina is 6-0, 3-0.Notable: Wilton already has a playoff berth wrapped up, and ...

IOWA CITY -- Shockingly and blockingly, The Spike stays put.Iowa City West got a double-double from sophomore Laynie Whitehead and capitalized on a sluggish effort by Class 5A third-ranked Iowa City High, sweeping Tuesday's Mississippi Valley Conference Mississippi Division volleyball match, 26-24, 25-22, 25-20, at West ...

Brad Smith finished all the improvements around the house.He needed to pass the time, so he decided to take on another familiar project.Less than a year from retiring as a teacher and coach at Iowa City High, Smith has accepted an offer Tuesday to return as ...

A dozen key area football games for Week 6:CEDAR RAPIDS XAVIER at CEDAR RAPIDS WASHINGTONTime and site: 7:15 p.m. Thursday, at Kingston StadiumTV: KCRG 9.2Records and rankings: Class 4A fourth-rated Xavier is 5-0 overall, 2-0 MVC Valley Division; Washington is 1-4, 0-3.Notable: Xavier continues to motor ...

DUBUQUE -- Allison Culver paced a 1-2-3-4 attack, and the Cedar Rapids Kennedy girls' cross country team won its fifth invitational of the season Thursday, capturing the Eastern Iowa Classic at the Dubuque Soccer Complex.Kennedy scored 22 points, 30 fewer than runner-up Iowa City High.Culver ...