The first pitch of the state softball tournament’s 50th anniversary at Rogers Sports Complex is right around the corner. Fittingly, Dodger all-state ace hurler Jalen Adams will throw it when homestanding FDSH opens a week that will be anything but normal with a quarterfinal contest against ...

Nate McCoy’s oldest memory from the Fort Dodge Amateur has very little to do with the tournament itself. “I remember being really little and coming up here one of the years my dad won it (Iowa golf legend Mike McCoy was the FD Am’s Open Division champion in 1993, 1994 and 2000),” said ...

I had a conversation with a friend the other day about civility. It started with sports, shifted to politics, and landed on society. Generally speaking, we just aren’t treating each other very well these days. I see it constantly at ballgames in behavior toward umpires and officials, ...

If I ever felt the need to measure my level of involvement in the Fort Dodge community, I’d always look for Steve Springer. The more you saw Steve, the better off we all were. Because that meant something was being done for the greater good. Steve was ubiquitous. Did he have a stunt ...

One of the nation’s last live high school sporting events took place in Des Moines a little over two months ago. A total of 12 boys basketball programs — including Bishop Garrigan — played six contests to wrap up the state tournament on March 13 inside Wells Fargo Arena. On Wednesday, ...

Love and fight. That’s all Steve Springer can do these days in the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis. Nearly two months ago, the 59-year-old Fort Dodge resident was told he has stage four esophageal cancer. The disease has metastasized to his stomach, liver, adrenal glands, blood and ...