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The Van Buren boys? golf team opened up its season with a home victory Monday at the Riverview Country Club over Lone Tree.The Warriors scored a 182, while Lone Tree shot a 213.Austin Bartholomew led the Warriors by shooting a 41 on the nine hole, par-36 course. Bartholomew birdied hole No. 3, which is a par-5 hole.Three of his teammates also shot in the 40s. Noah Witten shot a 44, Robby Laughlin shot a 48 and ...

Two former Trojans ran Saturday at the Wartburg Select college track meet in Waverly.Libbey Schubert, who now runs for Wartburg College, and Hannah Sobaski, who runs for Grand View University, both participated in multiple events at the meet.Schubert?s 4x100-meter relay team took first place with the time of 48.05. Schubert runs the anchor leg of the race. The team is now ranked first in the nation in Division ...

The Pekin, Cardinal and Van Buren boys? and girls? track teams competed at the Dennis Anderson Relays at Davis County High School in Bloomfield Monday.Wayne, Davis County, Schuyler County and Putnam County (Mo.) competed with them in Class A. The Pekin boys ran away with the team competition.?We were pleased with how we improved our times in most events,? Pekin coach Davis Eidahl said. ?This week we spent ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ? On a day when the weather was more suitable for ducks than racing, the Sprint Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway became NASCAR?s first rainout of the season.The Robertson family from ?Duck Dynasty? had prominent roles at Sunday?s race, called the Duck Commander 500, but Uncle Si never got to give the command to start engines. NASCAR pulled the plug after a delay of about four hours.The ...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ? Shabazz Napier walked slowly through the hallway of the stadium ? the tears still drying, the twine from the cut-down net still hanging around his neck.?Bittersweet. Bittersweet. Bittersweet,? he said, over and over again.Bitter because it?s over. Sweet because UConn won it all after being left behind and told to go away.Napier turned in one final masterpiece as a college player Monday ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ? Florida State University is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for possible Title IX violations in its response to sexual violence complaints.USA Today first reported the investigation by the Office for Civil Rights. It stems from a complaint filed with it by the accuser in quarterback Jameis Winston?s sexual assault case.No charges were filed by State Attorney ...

The Van Buren boys? track team hosted the Van Buren Invitational Thursday in Keosauqua.The Warriors competed in Class A with three other teams. Junior Garrett Saunders won the 400-meter hurdles and finished second in the long jump. He also was part of the 4x200 and 4x800 relay teams that finished first. The other three relay members were Tom Fitzsimmons, Wyatt Cole and Drew Nolting.Cole won the 800 and Gavin ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? LeVar Woods is a soft-spoken former linebacker who looks like he could still suit up for the Hawkeyes. Jim Reid is a loquacious coaching lifer who?s made Iowa City perhaps the last stop of an illustrious career.Together, they?ve helped make the middle of Iowa?s defense formidable again.With Woods coaching the outside linebackers and Reid handling the inside guys, the Hawkeyes got out about as ...

Tiger Woods chose surgery to heal his ailing back over a quest for another green jacket, announcing Tuesday that he will miss the Masters for the first time in his career.Woods said on his website that he had surgery Monday in Utah for a pinched nerve that had been hurting him for several months, knowing the surgery would keep him from Augusta National next week for the first time since he was a senior in high ...

It may have taken two days, but Ruritan Relays have finally come to a close.The Pekin boys? track team?s first home meet of the season Monday allowed for the Panthers to finally get outside, but rain postponed the second half of the meet until Tuesday. Five class two teams, which includes Pekin and Cardinal, returned to finish the meet, but class one teams did not return and left their scores as they were on ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Drake Relays director Brian Brown said Tuesday that Lolo Jones will run the shuttle hurdle relay rather than the 100-meter hurdles at her hometown meet later this month.Jones, a Des Moines native and a two-time Olympic hurdler, competed for the U.S. in the bobsled at the recent Sochi Olympics.Jones has long been the face of the meet, which is held just a few miles from where she grew up. But ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Members of a group trying to unionize college athletes sought out potential congressional allies Wednesday as they braced for an appeal of a ruling that said full scholarship athletes at Northwestern University are employees who have the right to form a union.Former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter, the face of a movement to give college athletes the right to unionize, and Ramogi Huma, the ...