The Cedar Rapids Kernels won the Midwest League championship last season, the city’s first since 1994. An 82-50 regular-season record was the best in all of the minor leagues. The 2024 season begins Friday at Beloit, with this team featuring an experienced starting pitching rotation.
At this point last month, Mark Carlson was believed to be on the verge of setting the United States Hockey League record for most career coaching victories. But the league then discovered they had miscalculated Carlson’s win total. Having already reached out to RoughRiders alumni and others in the hockey world for comment on playing for Carlson, The Gazette has decided to not wait until next season when Carlson does indeed break the USHL wins record. Here is what NHL players like Ross Colton had to say.
Indoor football is coming to the Iowa City area with the Coralville Chaos set to join the American Indoor Football League league in 2025. The team was officially revealed to the public in a news conference Thursday.
The Iowa Heartlanders beat Wichita on three consecutive days last week. The ECHL club gave up just four goals in those games. The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders dropped three games last week.
The Cedar Rapids River Kings hosted the Missouri Falcons in their 2024 American Indoor Football opener Saturday night at Alliant Energy PowerHouse.
Bringing a football championship to Cedar Rapids is the goal for the new River Kings franchise in its first season as a member of the American Indoor Football League.
The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders have picked up standings points in their last six USHL games to climb into a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Part of the surge can be credited to the goaltending tandem of Rudy Guimond and James Norton. Guimond, a Detroit Red Wings draft pick, has been here all season. Norton joined the club in January after beginning the season in the NAHL and excelling in a short emergency stint with Dubuque of the USHL.
The lease for the ECHL’s Iowa Heartlanders at Xtream Arena in Coralville runs out at the end of this season. Team president Matt Getz said he is confident in an extension and excited about an uptick in home attendance since Christmas.
Cascade’s Colin Rea has had his share of travails in his professional baseball career. But a good 2023 season with the Milwaukee Brewers earned him a 2024 contract and a spot in the starting pitching rotation.
Cedar Rapids RoughRiders head coach/general manager/president Mark Carlson is two wins shy of tying and three from breaking the United States Hockey League’s career coaching victories record. The Riders play three games this weekend.
Forward Gavin Hain was a draft pick of the Philadelphia Flyers who signed an ECHL contract with the Iowa Heartlanders in September. But he’s spent most of this hockey season in the American Hockey League with the Iowa Wild. He’s back in Coralville ... for now.
The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders scored three goals in the third period to rally past Sioux City, 4-3, Sunday afternoon at ImOn Ice. The Riders won two of three games in a three-in-three weekend, playing three different goaltenders.
Former Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer was elected Tuesday to the Baseball Hall of Fame, only the third catcher elected on his first attempt. Caleb Thielbar, who threw his first major league pitcher to Mauer, was in town Tuesday night as part of the Twins Winter Caravan, which made a stop at the Cedar Rapids Kernels Hot Stove Banquet.
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