Women's rugby in the U.S. is going professional with the new Women's Elite Rugby competition. The league will officially launch next year with between 6 and 8 teams.
After a historic inaugural campaign, the awards continue to pile up for the Iowa women’s wrestling team. Head coach Clarissa Chun was named the USA Women’s Wrestling Coach of the Year on April 20. The announcement was made by the organization during the 2024 Olympic Team Trials in State College, Pennsylvania. This is Chun’s second
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, celebrated its 100th anniversary as the starting line for the marathon, sending off a field of nearly 30,000 runners.
It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...
A recently approved resolution is an ode to the state’s past while recognizing success in the present.
Chelsea manager furious with red card and penalty decisionsBarcelona through to final against either PSG or LyonEmma Hayes lambasted the red card shown to Kadeisha Buchanan and the award of the decisive penalty in Chelsea’s 2-0 defeat by Barcelona as “probably the worst decisions in Uefa Women’s Champions League history”.Chelsea were a goal up going into the second leg, having inflicted the first home defeat on Barcelona in more than five years, but Aitana Bonmatí’s shot took a deflection off...
Press Box Banter is The Daily Iowan’s weekly sports podcast. Each episode we will talk about local, national, and international sports, host a special guest, and talk predictions for upcoming games. This week’s edition features Jada Gyamfi, a player on the Iowa women’s basketball team, as she talks about Iowa’s historic season and playing with
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When Lauren Nelson returned home from a trip to Portugal in 2022, she was “on cloud nine.” It hadn’t been any regular holiday — she had just gotten married. She and her new husband, Darragh, as well as their young daughter, were celebrating the perfect week away when they found a lump on his bicep.
Sciver-Brunt finally places an English name on the women’s gong, which has been won five times by Australians in the 10 years since its inception.
Emma Hayes lamented the “worst decision in Women’s Champions League history” as she blamed the second-half sending-off of defender Kadeisha Buchanan for Chelsea’s semi-final defeat against Barcelona. ]]>
Ryan Reynolds is honoring his friend Michael J. Fox for a special occasion. Fox was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people on Wednesday, for which Reynolds wrote a moving passage about the impact that Fox has had on his family and others. In the blurb, Reynolds wrote that he knows Fox “pretty damn well,” adding that “he’s funny. He’s warm. He’s handsome and intensely smart.” “He also falls a lot,” the “Deadpool” star continued. “Not just because he has Parkinson’s. He falls a...