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DES MOINES (AP) ? Drake Relays director Brian Brown says Des Moines native Lolo Jones has committed to run in her hometown meet later this month.Jones won the 100-meter hurdles every year from 2005-08 at Drake. She then lost three straight before pulling out in 2012, an Olympic year, because of poor weather conditions.Jones will compete against rival Kellie Wells and Dawn Harper for a $50,000 purse, the largest ...

NEW YORK (AP) ? Pierre Jackson is one win away from capping his stellar Baylor career with the Bears? first NIT championship.To do that, he?ll have to break down Iowa?s defense in the title game of the 76th National Invitation Tournament tonight.The Hawkeyes have faced plenty of good point guards this season in the Big Ten, though none quite put up Jackson?s type of numbers. The junior-college transfer leads ...

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Jake Scheetz exhibited the grand champion swine, and Allie McArtor had the reserve grand champion at the Henry County Fair.Showmanship winners were Eli Miller, junior, Grace Scheetz, intermediate, and Olivia Oetken, senior.Following are the other winners and placers in the various swine classes:Competitive swine derby ? Nicholas Sandeen, champion; Ethan McGohan, reserve champion.Competitive swine project ...

NEW YORK (AP) ? Devyn Marble and Iowa could get used to these fast starts.Marble had 21 points and nine rebounds to help Iowa, whose slow start to the Big Ten season kept them from the NCAA tournament, reach the National Invitation Tournament championship for the first with a 71-60 win over Maryland on Tuesday night.?I thought one of the keys to the game was how we came out,? Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. ?We ...

DONNELLSON ? Van Buren?s Hanna Haynes won two individual events and helped anchor the shuttle hurdle relay to victory Tuesday at the Central Lee girls? track meet in Donnellson.The Warrior senior placed first in both the long jump (15? 4?) and 100-meter hurdles (15.9). The shuttle hurdle relay team of Haynes, Allison Dickinson, Steph Woodruff and Kimberly Heisel crossed the finish line in 1:19 for gold.The ...

It was business as usual for the Maharishi School boys? tennis team Tuesday as it kicked off the 2013 season with a 9-0 sweep of visiting Burlington Notre Dame at the M.U.M. indoor courts.?Maharishi School got their season off to a strong start,? said new head coach Steve Briggs, who replaced longtime coach Lawrence Eyre at the helm this offseason.A ?strong start? might have been an understatement. The Pioneers ...

The Fairfield girls? soccer team received contributions from nearly everyone Monday in its season-opening, 4-0 victory over Centerville at Trojan Stadium.Fairfield?s JV players hit the field in the game?s first half, and the varsity team played the second half en route to the lopsided win. Senior Kayla Septer made two goals for Fairfield, and junior teammates Claudia Sloat and Erica Winslow each scored once. All ...