Tuesday May 5th Local Sports

TONIGHT:

AM-1300 KGLO — Minnesota Twins Classic — 1965 World Series Game 1, Twins vs. Dodgers — 7:00

 

 

IOWA CITY — The Big Ten Conference on Monday extended its ban on organized workouts and activities from May 4th to June 1st. The extension means organized workouts with strength and conditioning staffs and on-campus meetings with players cannot happen until at least then. Under normal NCAA off-season rules, you are allowed eight hours per week with your team in the weight room and film room. Right now, the only thing you are allowed to do is to conduct digital meetings remotely with your players. Iowa strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle says training facilities may look a lot different when football players return to campus. Doyle is used to having 30 players per shift in the weight room but that may change due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Doyle says the coaching staff is looking at a variety of plans that would help lower the risk.

Doyle says they are looking at all aspects of the training facilities.

Meanwhile the commissioner of the Big Ten says the league continues to gather health and safety information and other important data as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shut down sports. Kevin Warren says the next two to three months of fact-finding will be critical in the near-term future plans of the Big Ten.

Warren says they began a Emerging Infectious Disease Task Force among Big Ten institutions and it is monitoring closely what is happening

He says there are many questions that have to be answered over the next 45-to-60 days to help them craft a plan for this fall, as well as into next year. Warren says he will lean on medical and health experts and let the facts they gather and the research they conduct be the guide to dictate his policy decisions, saying he will not make decisions based on emotions or just on the “money” sports.

Warren says the entire goal is to make sure the student-athletes of the Big Ten are safe when they return to classes and activities.

Warren began his duties as Big Ten commissioner back in January

 

 

 

CEDAR RAPIDS — What will college athletic events look like if and when campuses begin hosting events this fall? It is a question administrators are mulling as they look ahead to an all clear from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chuck Yrigoyen is commissioner of the American Rivers Conference.

Yrigoyen says things may look a lot different.

He says they are looking at a lot of different options when it comes to game management

The American Rivers Conference, formerly known as the Iowa Conference, includes Buena Vista, Central, Coe, Dubuque, Loras, Luther, Nebraska Wesleyan, Simpson, and Wartburg.

 

 

DES MOINES — Award-winning wrestling journalist Dan McCool has died. McCool was a longtime sports writer for the Des Moines Register, covering several high school sports, but his specialty was covering high school, college and international wrestling. McCool grew up in Clarion and had written two books, “A History of Wrestling in Iowa: Growing Gold” as well as “Reach for the Stars, the Iowa High School State Wrestling Tournament”. McCool at the time of his death was working on another book detailing the history of wrestling in the North Central Conference. McCool received numerous awards, including being inducted with the Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award by the Iowa Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. The Iowa Chapter of the Hall of Fame annually presents the Dan McCool Media Award to a deserving journalist in the state for excellence in wrestling coverage. McCool died on Monday at the age of 60.