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Vote for Top 10 Sports Stories of 2010
Nick Pugliese
Dec. 16, 2010 11:09 am
Here is your chance to join the SourceMedia Group News Sports Content Team and help us select the best local sports stories of this past year.
Pick you Top 10 from the list below (feel free to add anything you think is missing) and put them in the comments field. We are planning on posting the Top 10 list on Christmas Day so you'll be able to see how your list matched up with the final list. Good Luck!
- Iowa wins Orange Bowl and sets up promising 2010 season, only to underachieve and limp to a 7-5 record.
- Iowa football player woes: DJK arrested on drug charges; Wegher quits team in August; Hampton has season-ending knee surgery second straight year and leaves program; Robinson suspended from Insight Bowl.
- Kurt Warner retires from the NFL.
- UNI stuns No. 1 Kansas and advances to Sweet 16.
- Lickliter fired; McCaffery hired to coach Iowa men's basketball team.
- Fred Hoiberg hired as Iowa State's men's basketball coach.
- Iowa wrestlers repeat as national champions.
- ISU's Lisa Koll becomes the fourth athlete to hold 5,000 and 10,000 meter national titles.
- Solon moves up a class and still wins unprecedented fourth consecutive state football championship.
- Kiah Stokes leads Linn-Mar to state basketball title and commits to play for UConn.
- Mike Trout starts season playing for the Kernels and ends up Minor League Player of the Year.
- Mount Vernon girls have incredible run of state appearances in volleyball, basketball, track and softball.
- Zach Johnson ties for third at the PGA Championship, wins Crowne Plaza Invitational, earns $2.9 million and competes for the U.S. in the Ryder Cup.
UNI's Ali Farokhmanesh, who made the cover of Sports Illustrated after the Panthers stunned Kanses, drives to the basket against Michigan State in their Sweet 16 match. Jim Slosiarek/SourceMedia Group News
Kiah Stokes (41) scores a basket during Linn-Mar's victory against Des Moines East in the Girls State Basketball Class 4A championship game. Liz Martin/SourceMedia Group News
Mike Trout, sliding back to first base while playing for the Kernels, was the Minor League Player of the Year. Jim Slosiarek/SourceMedia Group News