Mark Bigler is the head boys basketball coach at Davenport West High School so one would think his ultimate goal is to win on the court.One would be wrong.“It’s not about winning games,” he said more than once during a visit to New Hampton last Th

Troy Tysdahl hasn’t lived in Nashua for two years, but that didn’t matter this past weekend.Saturday felt like coming home, and the former Nashua-Plainfield teacher and coach and his family were simply overwhelmed to see so many old friends at a u

Depending on one’s perspective, Thursday’s Wahawk Invitational was a half-full or half-empty kind of day for the New Hampton girls track team.  The Chickasaws got a chance to run against a host of Class 4A schools they don’t normally encounter, bu

Boots would have come in handy as Turkey Valley's golfers were competing Thursday on their home turf.  Not to mention hats, gloves, winter coats, maybe?

New Hampton coach Scott Frerichs has found plenty of success when he puts Braydon Fisher, Keagan John, Shane Burke and Josh Fenske in relays this year.  And Friday night was certainly not an exception when the quartet notched two more victories as

Q: Why do you keep bookkeepers at the Pentagon on a short leash?Sen. Charles Grassley: In an era of political divisiveness, this is an issue that bridges the divide among Iowans across the ideological spectrum.

The date escapes me, except that it was sometime in the spring of 1982 when I donned the ugliest tuxedo known to man.I was a junior in high school at little Mapleton High School in southern Minnesota, and long before “promprosals,” I had stared at