Sports

Existing college athletes staying on teams to make up for the COVID-19 off-year is making it harder for graduating high school athletes to get in the game.

Shanza Sami, 14, is taking on air pollution in a powerful way. She's developed an extension for catalytic converters designed to reduce emissions from vehicles that run on fossil fuels

Sioux City native Dave Bancroft was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971. Now, the baseball legend has his own day and exhibit in the western Iowa city.

Title IX passed 50 years ago, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity receiving federal funds. Though the impacts have been broad, the law is best known for opening the doors for women's sports.

World heavyweight champion boxer Muhammad Ali was at the top of his game in the 1960s. After Ali refused to serve in the Vietnam War for religious reasons, he was arrested and convicted of draft evasion, facing five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. His boxing license was suspended, and he was barred from leaving the country. With his boxing career on hold and his future uncertain, the champ began speaking at college campuses around the country, including in Iowa City.

En enero, Piña y un grupo de mujeres jóvenes se reunieron para formar un equipo llamado Escaramuza Charra Quetzalli. Hay siete jóvenes, incluida Piña, todas de ascendencia mexicana. Pero la octava escaramuza rompe los esquemas.

The national sport of Mexico has new representation in Iowa — but this team looks a little different than others. A group of young Iowans has formed a new team to compete and perform in charrería.

Charity Nebbe talks to Debra Marquart, Iowa’s Poet Laureate, about her book The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging.

State legislatures around the country have been trying to prevent transgender girls and women from competing with their peers. How that's playing out in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska depends on politics and people.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Thursday that prohibits transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports in K-12, community colleges and colleges and universities. It takes effect immediately.