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The Iowa Hawkeyes play Coppin State today (Saturday) in Iowa City, in their final non-conference game before the Christmas break. Iowa opens the Big Ten season hosting Indiana in Iowa City on December 31st. You can hear the game on KJAN, beginning at 11-a.m.
Coach Fran McCaffery says they want to finish this portion of the schedule on a good note. “We wanna keep playing the way we’re playing, hard, solid D, sharing the ball, a lot of different guys feeling good about their game, and that’s the way you want to go into Indiana,” McCaffery said. The Hawkeyes have been shooting the ball well lately, and freshman guard Mike GeSsell says it’s a matter of being confident.
“Whether you miss your last one, missed your last five, you have to continue to shoot with confidence. We are really confident the players we have on this team can shoot the ball,” GeSsell said. He says coach McCaffery is going to continue giving them the green light to shoot, even if they miss a few shots. While they have a winning record and have been shooting the ball well, GeSsell said after the win over South Carolina State that they still have room to improve on defense.
“You know that was kind of our weakness as a team last year and we still have some breakdowns at times,” GeSsell said. He says if they can cut out the breakdowns they will improve as a team. Iowa is 10-2 heading into Saturday’s game.
(Radio Iowa/Sports)
The Iowa State Cyclones are off until January 1st when they face Yale and then open the Big 12 season January 9th at Kansas. I-S-U wrapped up their final game of this year with a 76-61 win over Missouri-Kansas City. Coach Fred Hoiberg said after their last game that they have some things to work on before returning to action. “We’ve got to tighten everything up. When we’re playing well, when we’re clicking, when everybody is all in together, we are a pretty darn good team. When we are not, we struggle a little,” Hoiberg said.
He says the team has learned from its loses so far and improved. “You know I like the way we’re playing right now…and hopefully we’ll keep making strides,” Hoiberg said. I-S-U wraps up this portion of the season with a 9-3 record.
(Radio Iowa/Sports)
Republican House Speaker John Boehner was forced to pull his so-called “Plan B” bill that sought to reach a compromise on the tax cut issue because of a lack of votes. Iowa Congressman, Steve King, a Republican from Kiron, says he doesn’t think fellow Republicans are rebelling against Boehner, but instead are not happy with the proposal. “I’m not hearing a lot of carping like that, it’s really more about the policy and it’s a cumulative affect though of some, I think, of some strategic decisions and bad policy decisions of the past that set the stage for this,” King says. King says the lack of spending cuts led many Republicans to pull their support of “Plan B.”
“They’re saying ‘we’ve got to cut spending some time’, and if we don’t cut spending in this vote, then we’ve just again kicked the can down the road and made ourselves a promise that probably we are going to have a hard time keeping at the next critical juncture, which is the debt ceiling that will come up in the next couple of months,” King says. He says while there is no obvious challenger to Boehner for House Speaker, there is pressure on him from the disagreement among G-O-P House members.
“And I think how this comes out will have a lot to say about that,” King says. “As we will get something back from the Senate I expect. I think we will get something back that’ll be a pretty bitter pill to swallow if we can swallow it. And then the results of that might shake something loose so that someone emerges to be a challenger. There’s pressure on the speakership, no doubt.” Congressmen left for home Friday without reaching any plan to hold off the tax cuts that will take place in January.
(Radio Iowa)
BOYS BASKETBALL
Creston 64, Red Oak 50
IKM-Manning 79, OA-BCIG 49
Sioux City, East 60, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 46
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 73, Clarinda Academy 59
Villisca 79, Heartland Christian 33
West Monona, Onawa 74, Siouxland Community Christian 31
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Lewis Central vs. Atlantic, ppd.
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll vs. Denison-Schleswig, ppd. to Jan 22.
Glenwood vs. Harlan, ppd. to Feb 4.
Carroll vs. Carlisle, ppd.
Coon Rapids-Bayard vs. Madrid, ppd.
Earlham vs. West Central Valley, Stuart, ppd.
CAM, Anita vs. Ankeny Christian Academy, ppd.
Panorama, Panora vs. Woodward Academy, ppd.
Grandview Park Baptist, Des Moines vs. Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton, ppd.
Clarinda vs. Shenandoah, ppd.
Glidden-Ralston vs. Orient-Macksburg, ppd.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 42, Sioux City, East 37
Heartland Christian 48, Villisca 42
IKM-Manning 93, OA-BCIG 62
Red Oak 64, Creston 31
West Monona, Onawa 60, Siouxland Community Christian 36
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Denison-Schleswig vs. Kuemper Catholic, Carroll, ppd.
Atlantic vs. Lewis Central, ppd.
Harlan vs. Glenwood, ppd.
Carroll vs. Carlisle, ppd.
Coon Rapids-Bayard vs. Madrid, ppd.
Earlham vs. West Central Valley, Stuart, ppd.
Ankeny Christian Academy vs. CAM, Anita, ppd.
Clarinda vs. Shenandoah, ppd.
343 AM CST SAT DEC 22 2012
TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHWEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
SUNDAY...PARTLY SUNNY. COLDER. HIGH IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTHWEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH 15 TO 20. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
MONDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW 5 TO 10 ABOVE. HIGH AROUND 10.
TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW NEAR ZERO. HIGH AROUND 10.
AKRON, Iowa (AP) — A judge has dismissed sex charges against a former wrestling coach in northwest Iowa. Chad Utesch of Ireton had the charges dismissed earlier this week. They included one count of felony sexual exploitation by a school employee and several misdemeanor counts of the same charge. The judge ruled Utesch, a former wrestling coach at Akron-Westfield High School, did not meet the statutory definition of a school employee at the time of the alleged offenses because he did not have valid coaching authorization.
The Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department says Utesch had inappropriate contact with a 17-year-old female student in 2011.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities say one of the victims of a 25-car pileup caused by a major snow storm this week was pregnant with twins. The Iowa State Patrol says Colby Bostick of Clear Lake was killed in the massive accident Thursday morning on Interstate Highway 35 in northern Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports the 27-year-old Bostick announced her pregnancy in November.
AKRON, Iowa (AP) — A judge has dismissed sex charges against a former wrestling coach in northwest Iowa. Chad Utesch of Ireton had the charges dismissed earlier this week. The judge ruled Utesch, a former wrestling coach at Akron-Westfield High School, did not meet the statutory definition of a school employee at the time of the alleged offenses.
IONIA, Iowa (AP) — A 42-year-old Ionia woman has been arrested, accused of stabbing her husband multiple times. The altercation was reported around 7:40 a.m. Tuesday. Police say the woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The man was taken to a Waterloo hospital, where he underwent surgery for his wounds.
ROCK VALLEY, Iowa (AP) — Sioux County authorities are looking for the person or people who tampered with a hog facility’s thermostat, killing 475 pigs. The Sioux City Journal reports that at least one person entered the hog confinement facility five miles south of Rock Valley on Wednesday and tampered with the climate control system. That led to the death of the pigs, each weighing about 280 pounds.
Road conditions across the state are slowly beginning to improve. As the roads become more easily accessible to emergency responders, the severity and extent of storm damage can be examined. Preliminary numbers from the Department of Public Safety’s six State Communications Centers indicate that beginning at 5:00 PM on December 19, 2012 and continuing through 3:00 PM, December 21, 2012 the Iowa State Patrol managed:
Emergency calls received are likely higher as numerous calls on a single event may not have been logged due to the extremely high call volume and radio traffic occurring in the six centers over the past 48 hours. Additionally, these figures do not include crashes that may have occurred, but have yet to be responded to by Troopers due to the large volume of reports.
The Iowa State Patrol continues to prohibit towing of abandoned or wrecked vehicles on much of Iowa’s interstate and highway systems. However, please contact your local law enforcement to verify if towing is allowed on county roadways, or roads and streets within your community.
(IA DPS Press Release)
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