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Sports Columns

Bill Greehey: Fort Dodge personified

Small-world story time with a Fort Dodge connection. The Iowa women’s basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 with a rousing victory over Kentucky on the campus of St. Mary’s University Tuesday in San Antonio. All women’s NCAA Tournament games are being played at gyms and arenas in ...

Stuff of legends

I listened to the interview, did a double take, stopped, played it back a few more times and tried to process what I’d heard. In fact, I still am. What did Spencer Lee just say? Moments after clinching a third consecutive national championship and further cementing his status as a ...

MEMORY LANE

It’s been both enjoyable and educational to help Fort Dodge Senior High football coach Nik Moser and his staff honor former Dodger athletes on social media throughout February for Black History Month. Moser contacted me last month to see if I would be willing to lend a hand. Being a local ...

The Dodger wrestling connection

Members of the Fort Dodge wrestling program may not fully realize it yet, but their impact continues to extend far beyond a gym room or a trophy case. It resonates with a former FDSH teacher who now lives in a Sun Belt state. An ex-Dodger wrestler who resides in Colorado. A current ...

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

In 1994, the best Fort Dodge football team I’ve ever seen visited West Des Moines and lost to Valley during the regular season, 41-6. History repeated itself in 2000, when the Tigers beat an otherwise-playoff caliber Dodger squad by the exact same score. The 2005 Fort Dodge Dodgers were 6-2 ...

History may be repeating itself on opposite ends of rivalry

Cyclone fans aren’t necessarily going to like this comparison, and Hawkeyes won’t exactly go out of their way to repeat it, either. The Matt Campbell era at Iowa State is starting to look a lot like the craftsmanship of a certain head coach 130 miles southeast of Ames. That’s a credit ...