Boldly going where no NFL coach has gone before, recently fired Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores put his future career at stake and filed a class-action lawsuit against the league, the New York Giants, the Denver Broncos and the Dolphins, alleging discriminatory hiring practices among team owners.
Their confidence at a season high and their play reflecting it, the Marceline High School basketball Tigers slugged it out, point for point, in last Saturday’s Class 3 District 16 tournament championship game against the top-seeded Milan Wildcats, who had twice defeated them by double-digits margins in an 8-day span a month earlier.
MEADVILLE — The Linn County High School basketball Lady Mustangs punctuated the “upset the apple cart” plot line of the Class 1 District 12 tournament last Thursday as two No. 2 seeds walked away with the top prizes – district crowns and a chance to play last night in the state tournament.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Locked-out players and Major League Baseball engaged in a series of intense meetings that stretched into Monday night as they attempted to forge the path to a labor deal before management’s deadline for salvaging opening day on March 31.
TRENTON — The court might have been neutral for last Friday night’s postponed Class 3 District 16 tournament game, but the Marceline High School basketball Tigers jammed it into high gear immediately and crushed injury-crimped Carrollton 48-29 in a semifinals clash that wasn’t nearly as close as the final 19-points margin.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Tari Eason scored 18 points off the bench, leading four in double figures, and LSU rolled past Missouri 75-55 on Saturday night.
GENEVA (AP) — In a sweeping move to isolate and condemn Russia after invading Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee urged sports bodies on Monday to exclude the country’s athletes and officials from international events.
LONDON (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will play in the NFL’s first regular-season game in Germany this year and the Green Bay Packers are traveling abroad for the first time. The league said Monday that the Bucs will host the inaugural game in Munich next season, although their opponents and the date for the game have yet to be announced.
While their male counterparts were extending and enhancing their program’s long and outstanding tradition of state-level success last weekend with two individual state champions, three other medal-earners, and a third-place team finish, Brookfield High School’s fledgling Lady Bulldogs wrestling program was initiating its own budding tradition of mat excellence. Having qualified three wrestlers – its most ever, for the single-classification girls’ state tournament at Columbia, two of them – BHS senior Oscarina Jackson (right and in action photo) and freshman Riley Howell (left) – earned state medals. Howell captured fifth place in the 159-pounds weight division and Jackson sixth at 174. Jackson made her second appearance in the state tourney where, last year, then-teammate Zoey Chrisman earned Brookfield’s first girls’ wrestling state medal when she took fifth place in her division (174). (Jackson action photo by Martin Cupp/LCL; posed photo by Paul Sturm/LCL)
The area’s Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge will reopen to the public next Saturday, March 5. The refuge is closed each year from late October to the first Saturday in March to provide undisturbed habitat for migrating and wintering waterfowl, the primary purpose for its construction many years ago.