Fairfield News

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Decisions are still pending on a possible appeal of Sean Payton?s suspension or an interim coach should his season-long punishment be upheld, a person familiar with the situation said.The person says Payton, general manager Mickey Loomis and their staffs were in meetings at the team?s suburban headquarters Thursday and focused primarily on preparations for next month?s NFL draft. The person ...

Members of the 2012 Fairfield girls? tennis team are pictured, from left, front row: head coach Heidi Grunwald, Natasha Chang, Melanie Polson, Meghan Shelangoski, Haylee Gilpin, Devin Maynard, Megan Palmer, Rachel Hathaway, Hanna Kerr, Bianka Dunaiova, Reyna Cornick, Jennifer Clements; back row: Caitie Johnston, Karley Williams, Sara Adam, Kim O?Carroll, Katrina Jackson, McKenzie Lyman, Emma Lemlin, Abby Shaner, ...

Only so many constants exist in sports, and over the past 25 years Maharishi School has staked its claim to one of them.As surely as the Chicago Cubs won?t win the World Series and the Duke Blue Devils will earn a trip to the NCAA hoops tournament, the Pioneer boys? tennis team will be swinging its rackets deep into the month of May. No doubt about it, the smallest school in Iowa to have a tennis program has ...

The Fairfield boys? track and field team will not be attending the varsity meet originally scheduled Thursday at Washington.The twice-postponed meet will now be held Monday, but the Trojans won?t be attending due to Spring Break.

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Senate wants to grill the NFL about bounties. And the NBA, NHL, NCAA and MLB are invited, too.Sen. Dick Durbin is setting up a Judiciary Committee hearing about bounties in professional football and other major sports in the wake of news that New Orleans Saints players received extra cash for hits that hurt particular opponents.The assistant Senate majority leader, an Illinois Democrat, ...

AMES, Iowa (AP) ? Iowa State sophomore forward Royce White says he?s leaving the school after playing one season and declaring for the NBA draft.White, the Big 12?s Newcomer of the Year, said at a news conference Wednesday that he intended to sign with an agent soon. The 6-8, 270-pound forward from Minneapolis led the Cyclones with 13.4 points and 9.3 rebounds a game this season and helped Iowa State reach the ...

PHOENIX (AP) ? Rick Pitino once told Billy Donovan that he should stick to finance and not go into coaching.Donovan has done all right for himself in the coaching world and now gets a chance to see how he measures up to his former boss.Fabulous freshman Bradley Beal scored 21 points and Florida knocked off Marquette 68-58 Thursday night, setting up a desert showdown with Pitino and Louisville for a spot in the ...

Chaotic, arrogant, sometimes even crass.And if you think the New York Jets are bad, you should see their fans.Welcome to The Big Apple, Tim Tebow. If you can make it there ... well, let?s just say the attention you received in Denver ? the obsessing over your throwing technique, what kind of teammate you were, your religious beliefs, your musical preferences, where you went for dinner and, yes, even your ...

Fourteen tennis players from Maharishi School, Fairfield and Mount Pleasant competed March 11 at the preseason Maharishi Tennis Challenge held on MSAE?s campus.MSAE?s Sam Stickels won the singles tournament with a finals victory over runner-up Govi Punj of FHS. Stickels also made it past Pioneer teammate Sam Arsanjani in the semifinals round. Arsanjani, MSAE?s No. 1 player last season, retired from the match.MSA...

The Pekin sixth-grade girls? hoops team won three tournaments and finished runner-up in another this winter. The sixth-graders finished the season with an 11-3 record and also competed in the Pekin seventh-grade tournament, where they placed fourth out of nine teams. Players are pictured, from left, front row: Kennedy Coleman, Hailey Beam, Lexi Bowen, Whitney Johnson; back row: Maci Gambell, Paige Winn, Faith ...

PELLA ? Corbin Harwood grabbed two top-10 finishes while Dillon Fry and Jonny Swanson added another pair of top places for Fairfield at the Central Indoor in Pella Friday.Harwood, a senior, finished third in the high jump with a leap of 6-feet and came in sixth in the 55-meter hurdles with a clocking of 8.04 seconds.?He picked up where he left off last season in the high jump and then he looked really good in ...

? Sydney Howard and Jessica Lamb highlight the list of returning state qualifiers. Anyone familiar with the 2011 Fairfield girls? track and field team won?t find many alterations in this season?s version.The defending SEC-champion Trojans lost only one senior to graduation last spring ? Edna Jones ? and return six of seven state qualifiers from 2011. Now a team without any seniors, the 40-girl squad will ...