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(Des Moines, Iowa via MiLB.com)— Iowa Cubs General Manager/President Sam Bernabe today (Wednesday), announced the Iowa Cubs have entered into an agreement to become a part of Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH), an organization dedicated to supporting, promoting, and enhancing the sport of baseball through professional management, best practices, innovation and investment. DBH is a subsidiary of Endeavor, the global sports and entertainment company. Following the closing of the transaction, the Iowa Cubs will continue to be led by Bernabe, and remain an MLB affiliate of the Chicago Cubs.
“My partners and I wish the new owners well, and we’re particularly pleased that Sam Bernabe will remain as president and general manager of the team,” said Michael Gartner, who has been chairman and principal owner of the Iowa Cubs for the past 22 seasons. “We hope Sam and his new colleagues have as much fun running the team as we have had.”
As part of DBH, Bernabe will work closely with Diamond Baseball Holdings’ leadership, Pat Battle and Peter B. Freund, to realize the club’s ambitions. Battle is Executive Chairman of DBH, bringing extensive experience at the local and national level, as well as ownership interest in two PDL teams. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Learfield and serves as an advisor to Endeavor across multiple companies. Freund is CEO of DBH, also bringing to the plate experience as a longtime Minor League Baseball owner and operator. Freund most recently consulted with the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball on the transition of Major League Baseball’s licensed affiliates while spearheading the formation of the MLB Draft League.
“Diamond Baseball Holdings will be global in our ambitions and hyper-local in our approach, and creating incredible fan experiences will remain our number one priority,” said Battle and Freund. “Additionally, we look forward to providing opportunities for growth to the employees of PDL Clubs whose passion and ingenuity have built the sport through the decades.”
Diamond Baseball Holdings was formed by Endeavor, the global sports and entertainment company. DBH will support Iowa with ticket sales, partnerships, naming rights, food & beverage, merchandise, content strategy, collectibles/authentics/NFTs and media rights, tapping into the broader Endeavor network for expertise across the various disciplines.
Listen back to the 2021 8-Player Football Semifinal game between the CAM Cougars and Audubon Wheelers. Chris Parks and Mike Smith have the call from the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
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(Des Moines, Iowa) – Officers with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) responded to four deer hunting incidents over the weekend – one related to property damage, one minor injury, one serious injury and one fatality – and one related to pheasant hunting.
The first of Iowa’s two shotgun deer hunting seasons will end on Dec. 8. Second shotgun deer season runs from Dec. 11-19. An estimated 120,000 hunters are expected to participate in one of the two seasons. Jamie Cook, hunter education coordinator for the Iowa DNR, said these incidents underscore the importance of putting together a hunting plan that identifies the role and location of each member of the hunting party and then following the plan when in the field. “The hunting plan is a step by step playbook for how the hunt will unfold that includes reviewing safe hunting practices, avoid target fixation, and drives home the point of not just identifying the deer, but what is beyond the deer, before taking the shot. It’s the most essential part of every hunt,” Cook said.
He also stressed the importance of wearing more than the minimum amount of blaze orange than is required for the deer gun seasons. Iowa law requires one of the following pieces of external clothing of solid blaze orange: vest, jacket, coat, sweatshirt, sweater, shirt or coveralls. “You can’t have too much blaze orange on. If the color has started to fade, it’s time to replace it. You want to be seen from all sides,” he said. Cook said it’s also each hunter’s responsibility to know and understand their limitations as a hunter and the firearms capability and to stay within those.
“This is especially true when utilizing a rifle for the first time during the shotgun season. Hunter’s need to exercise good judgment when taking a shot and remember that when using a higher capacity magazine that they could be shooting over a longer period of time and possibly covering a larger area so they need to be even more aware of what’s going on around them and not get fixated on the target,” he said.
Listen back to the 2021 8-Player Football Championship game between CAM and Easton Valley. Chris Parks and Matt Mullenix have the call of CAM’s first ever State Championship at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
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GIRLS BASKETBALL
CAM 63, Coon Rapids-Bayard 43 (CAM: Mallory Behnken 17 points, 8 rebounds, 7 blocks.)
Central Decatur 59, Lamoni 46
Lewis Central 54, CB Thomas Jefferson 10
Martensdale-St. Marys 63, Colo-NESCO 8
Riverside 38, Griswold 27
Tri-Center 51, West Harrison 26
Winterset 48, Norwalk 26
Woodbine 66, East Mills 46
BOYS BASKETBALL
Boyer Valley 50, West Monona 39
CAM 58, Coon Rapids-Bayard 48
Central Decatur 62, Lamoni 35
Clarke 53, Saydel 43
Lewis Central 63, CB Thomas Jefferson 46
Ridge View 53, East Sac County 48
Riverside 52, Griswold 17
Norwalk 54, Winterset 52
West Harrison 74, Tri-Center 45
Woodbine 50, East Mills 46
Illinois defeated Iowa 87-83 on Monday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Jacob Grandison and Alfonso Plummer each dropped in 21 points and four Illini players finished in double figures. Trent Frazier added 18 and Kofi Cockburn poured in 17.
Illinois led by there at half and built there lead to as much as 15 in the second half before the Hawkeyes tightened it at the end. Iowa led most statistical categories on the night but Illinois outscored the Hawks 24-11 on second chance points. The Illini improve to 7-2 overall and 2-0 in the Big Ten.
Iowa (7-2, 0-2) returns to action on Thursday in an Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series contest against No. 17 Iowa State (8-0). Tipoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. (CT) at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.
IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa sophomore Caitlin Clark was named Big Ten Women’s Basketball Player of the Week, the conference announced Monday afternoon.
The honor is 24th of her career. Earlier this season, Clark earned Big Ten Player of the Week Honor Roll (Nov. 15). As a freshman she tallied a Big Ten-best 13 Freshman of the Week honors, a Big Ten-Freshman record five Player of the Week honors, and four Player of the Week Honor Roll nods.
In two games last week, Clark averaged 23 points, 10 assists and 9.5 rebounds, and was a perfect 7-for-7 from the free-throw line. She added three steals and a block to fill her stat line for the week.
Clark led the Hawkeyes to their first Big Ten win of the season with a team-high, 24 points against Michigan State. She added 12 assists and 10 rebounds to register her second triple-double of the season and the third of her career. The West Des Moines, Iowa, native is the second active NCAA Division I student-athlete to record three in their career – Indiana’s Grace Berger also has three career triple-doubles.Clark’s third triple-double makes her the second Hawkeye in program history to record three or more triple doubles – former Hawkeye Sam Logic tallied six in her career. Clark’s triple-double is also the first for a Hawkeye against a Big Ten opponent since Logic had 18 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists at Purdue (Feb. 16, 2014)
Clark and the Hawkeyes return to action Wednesday in Ames, Iowa, against the Iowa State Cyclones in the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series game. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. CT on ESPNU.
| RANK | TEAM | RECORD | POINTS | PREVIOUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Purdue (61) | 8-0 | 1,525 | 2 |
| 2 | Baylor | 8-0 | 1,421 | 4 |
| 3 | Duke | 7-1 | 1,390 | 1 |
| 4 | UCLA | 8-1 | 1,293 | 5 |
| 5 | Gonzaga | 7-2 | 1,240 | 3 |
| 6 | Villanova | 6-2 | 1,175 | 6 |
| 7 | Texas | 6-1 | 1,101 | 7 |
| 8 | Kansas | 6-1 | 1,068 | 8 |
| 9 | Alabama | 7-1 | 1,029 | 16 |
| 10 | Kentucky | 6-1 | 972 | 9 |
| 11 | Arizona | 7-0 | 919 | 11 |
| 12 | Arkansas | 8-0 | 905 | 10 |
| 13 | Tennessee | 6-1 | 762 | 13 |
| 14 | Houston | 7-1 | 686 | 15 |
| 15 | UConn | 8-1 | 527 | 17 |
| 16 | USC | 8-0 | 510 | 20 |
| 17 | Iowa State | 8-0 | 499 | 19 |
| 18 | Auburn | 7-1 | 419 | 21 |
| 19 | Michigan State | 7-2 | 405 | 22 |
| 20 | Florida | 6-1 | 386 | 14 |
| 21 | Ohio State | 6-2 | 370 | NR |
| 22 | Wisconsin | 7-1 | 338 | 23 |
| 23 | Seton Hall | 7-1 | 177 | 25 |
| 24 | BYU | 7-1 | 157 | 12 |
| 25 | LSU | 8-0 | 135 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Colorado State 90, Xavier 78, Illinois 71, North Carolina 55, St. Bonaventure 37, Oklahoma 29, Memphis 14, Iowa 12, Michigan 11, San Francisco 10, Loyola Chicago 4, Indiana 3, Texas Tech 2.
The Kansas City Chiefs strengthened their hold on the AFC West lead with a 22-9 win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday night at Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs defense came up with three fourth-down stops and forced three turnovers, one of which turned into a 75 yard interception returned for a touchdown by Daniel Sorensen.
Patrick Mahomes threw for just 184 yards with 1 interception and a touchdown run. Chiefs receivers dropped a number of passes on the night but it didn’t matter with the defense leading the way.
Teddy Bridgewater threw for 257 yards for Denver and Javonte Williams gained 102 yards on the ground in replacement of the injured Melvin Gordon but the Broncos were held out of the end zone.
The Chiefs have now won 12 straight against the division rival Broncos dating back to the 2015 season. Denver fell to 6-6 on the season. The Chiefs improve to 8-4 and hold a one game lead over the Chargers in the AFC West.
Next up for the Chiefs is a home game against the Las Vegas Raiders next Sunday.
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