J.R. Ogden

Ogden column: Football has shaped Shawn Echelberry into the man and coach he is today and now he wants to pass that on to another generation as the Tri-County head coach.

Iowa high school football rewind: For Cascade, talent won out in season-opening upset of Monticello; Iowa City High lost, but all were winners in the Clash at Kinnick.

Ogden column: Football is a game that makes our blood boil and yell at the TV, but we love it above all other spectator sports.

Ogden column: What will new Big Ten members USC and UCLA offer in wrestling, a sport that is dominated by the conference where all 14 members offer the sport?

Ogden column: Not every event is a major happening. Not every championship brings riches or rings. But it doesn’t mean these events and these titles are less important to those involved.

Iowa City High announced Monday its season-opening football game against Iowa City Liberty will be played at Kinnick Stadium.

Ogden column: 71-year-old Gene Wandling has run two Bix 7 road races “pacing” the legendary Bill Rodgers.

The field for Monday’s Zach Johnson Foundation Classic is pretty good once again, including 3M Championship winner Tony Finau. But the ZJFC always has been about more than the golfers on the course.

Ogden column: Today’s crop of talented high school seniors look a lot like The Gazette’s first Athlete of the Year winners — Todd Twachtmann and Lisa Becker.

The Fifth Season Races have changed a lot the past 37 years, just like road racing itself.

Ogden column: Remembering Jack Ogden, the man who inspired our annual Athlete of the Year honor and made high school sports a priority at The Gazette.

Wildside column: Projects include ponds, wetlands, oxbow restorations, grass waterways, on-road detention basins, a grade stabilization and a water and sediment control basin

Former Cedar Rapids fast-pitch softball ace Michael White now is coaching at Texas and took the Longhorns to the NCAA championship series. He is closing in on 600 career coaching wins.

NASCAR driver Joey Gase will be racing trucks this weekend on dirt at Knoxville Raceway, a relatively new experience for the Cedar Rapids native.

Auto racing is in the family blood, from grandpa to day. Now 12-year-old Tallan is racing at Hawkeye Downs Speedway