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MOUNT PLEASANT ? Former Iowa Wesleyan College athletes Fred Parsons (class of 1957) and Fred Jacobeit (class of 1950) will be inducted into the IWC Athletic Hall of Fame Oct. 5 as part of homecoming weekend.Parsons was a basketball and baseball player at Iowa Wesleyan and has been a longtime Van Buren boys? basketball coach.A catcher and an outfielder, he started for three straight seasons on IWC?s baseball ...

LONDON (AP) ? Both jogged across the finish line.Both know they?ve got more in the tank ? maybe even a gold medal.Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake both moved onto the finals of the 200 meters with easy runs Wednesday night. They?ll go for the gold medal in Thursday?s night final, and think the winner has a shot at breaking Bolt?s world record of 19.19 seconds.?Anything is possible,? Blake said. ?It?s the 200 meters ...

Sarah Attar finished more than 40 seconds behind the lead pack in her women?s 800-meter heat ? and she got the loudest ovation of anyone.Attar became the first Saudi woman to compete in Olympic track and field, wearing a headscarf and finishing with the second-slowest time of any of the 40 women who took the track Wednesday.?This is such a huge honor and an amazing experience, just to be representing the ...

IOWA CITY ? The Hawkeyes have a new offensive system this season, and former Mount Pleasant football players Jordan Cotton and Henry Krieger-Coble are ready to do anything they can to help it out.Krieger-Coble, a 2011 Mount Pleasant graduate and redshirt freshman at Iowa, is playing at tight end for the Hawkeyes this season.?I?m looking forward to working hard for another year,? he said.He?s not on the depth ...

WAYLAND ? The garbage and recycling pickup schedule in Wayland for the holidays has been established, according to city officials.Pickup will be the day before Christmas and the New Year?s Eve day. Residents should set out garbage and recycling on Thursday mornings ? Dec. 24 and Dec. 31.

Michael Phelps got off to a slow start in the London Games. Now the most decorated Olympian in history is set to sprint to the finish in the last individual race of his career.Phelps will swim the 100-meter butterfly on Friday, with a chance to add a second threepeat to his resume. He won his first individual gold in London in the 200 individual medley on Thursday, making him the first man to win the same ...

All Times ESTAmerican LeagueEast Division W L Pct GBNew York 61 43 .587 ?Baltimore 55 50 .524 6½Tampa Bay 55 50 .524 6½Boston 53 53 .500 9Toronto 51 54 .486 10½Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 57 47 .548 ?Detroit 55 50 .524 2½Cleveland 50 55 .476 7½Minnesota 45 60 .429 12½Kansas City 44 60 .423 13West Division W L Pct GBTexas 61 43 .587 ?Oakland 57 48 .543 4½Los Angeles 57 49 .538 5Seattle ...

Seventh grader Hunter Hoskins catches a pass from quarterback James Lyman as they practice from scrimmage against high school football boys who simply tried to stop them with blocking pads. Dillon Fry was acting as safety during the play. The boys were in football camp all this week.