Jeff Linder

The Big Ten women’s basketball schedule was released Wednesday and Iowa’s closing stretch is difficult: Maryland, at Indiana, at Rutgers and Michigan.

Western Dubuque setter Madison Maahs recently went over 2,000 career assists and has led the Bobcats to two straight state tournaments.

Iowa City Liberty remains on top in this week’s Gazette-area Super 10 volleyball rankings, while Cedar Rapids Xavier makes a big jump to No. 5.

Western Dubuque rallied past Cedar Rapids Prairie in a 5-set thriller Tuesday.

Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford opted for high school football over nuclear fusion questions. Read our opinions from Week 2.

Here is this week’s Gazette Iowa high school football poll.

Sioux City East is No. 1 through 2 weeks; Cedar Rapids Prairie leads the area at No. 4

Cedar Rapids Prairie coach Mark Bliss earned his 200th career win, and more notes from Week 2 of Iowa high school football.

Cedar Rapids Xavier built a 16-point third-quarter lead against West Delaware, then its defense saved the day at the end.

Marion’s Avery Van Hook and Elise Mehaffy have served both as setters and hitters together for three years.

Now that we’ve had time to take an in-depth look at Week 1 of the Iowa high school football season, The Gazette’s Jeff Linder, K.J. Pilcher and Jeff Johnson share their biggest takeaways on this week’s Prep Football Huddle podcast.

Here’s a closer look at 12 Gazette-area Week 2 prep football games.

Kennedy, Prairie and Iowa City West went 6-3 in the MVC-MAC Challenge, and West also has a win over Xavier.

Iowa City Liberty remains on top of The Gazette’s area volleyball rankings after a 6-1 opening week.

MVL’s Laura Swart and West’s Alex McKane gout out fast to win individual crowns at the Williamsburg cross country Invite.