Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call of the game played at Creston High School.

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Area residents looking for ways to fulfill their New Year’s resolution to get healthy and fit, can do so by participating in the annual “Live Healthy Iowa 10 Week Challenge“, January 28th through April 5th. During the challenge, participants form teams of anywhere from two to 10-adults, who motivate and support each other in achieving their fitness and weight loss goals.

Each week, team members report their physical activity and/or weight, as part of a friendly competition. Team totals will be tracked and tabulated. In addition, a new feature this year, is a K-through 12 Live Healthy Iowa kids’ 10-week Challenge. Last year, Corporate and Community Cup Challenges were introduced into the competition, where teams from those divisions vied for a traveling trophy. Cass County is one of the communities which will actively be tracking its participation.

If teams sign-up using the group i.d.  LHICASS, they will be grouped with all teams in Cass County, thereby making the County eligible for the Community Cup Challenge. Sign-up today, by visiting www.livehealthyiowa.org.  Or, for more information, call Teddi Grindberg, Cass County Wellness Coordinator, at 712-243-3934.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Kansas City Chiefs haven’t hired a general manager to make crucial personnel decisions. Andy Reid hasn’t hired a single assistant coach.  That hardly seemed to matter. The pressing concern, at least for those who attended Reid’s introductory news conference Monday, was what the longtime Philadelphia Eagles coach plans to do at quarterback.

The Chiefs’ biggest area of need coincides with the most important position on the field. It’s the biggest reason why the Chiefs went 2-14 last season, and why Reid was hired to replace Romeo Crennel and the Chiefs were looking for a new general manager. Reid plans to start by analyzing the quarterbacks on last season’s roster – Matt Cassel, Brady Quinn and Ricky Stanzi -though it likely will be discouraging.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye 10:

• Atlantic 47, Creston 40
• Glenwood 66, Denison-Schleswig 59 (OT)
• Red Oak 63, Kuemper Catholic 50
• Nebraska City 60, Shenandoah 44

Western Iowa:

• Griswold 60, Audubon 49
• Missouri Valley 52, A-H-S-T 43
• Treynor 76, Tri-Center 52
• Riverside 55, Underwood 48

Rolling Hills:

• CAM 49, Orient-Macksburg 34
• Glidden-Ralston 54, Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 51
• Grandview Park Baptist 56, Adair-Casey 52
• Ankeny Christian 73, Paton-Churdan 31

Others:

• Boyer Valley 61, Charter Oak-Ute 44
• Carroll 59, Bondurant Farrar 50
• Des Moines Christian 64, Coon Rapids-Bayard 26
• Fremont Mills 58, Clarinda Academy 30
• Guthrie Center 70, Earlham 53
• IKM-Manning 73, Ar-We-Va 41
• Lenox 64, Bedford 54
• Mount Ayr 69, Corning 37
• Nodaway Valley 98, East Union 20
• Sidney 63, Essex 19
• Sioux City East 78, Abraham Lincoln 33
• Sioux City North 87, Thomas Jefferson 34
• South Page 67, Heartland Christian 55
• Stanton 49, Nishnabotna 40
• Van Meter 75, Panorama, Panora 53
• Villisca 47, East Mills 36
• West Central Valley 62, Woodward-Granger 51
• Whiting 53, Logan-Magnolia 42

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye 10:

• Atlantic 55, Creston 46
• Glenwood 48, Denison-Schleswig 44
• Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 46, Red Oak 35
• Shenandoah 44, Nebraska City, Neb. 37
• Clarinda 40, Auburn, NE 24

Western Iowa:

• Riverside 39, Underwood 32
• Treynor 42, Tri-Center 39
• Missouri Valley 33, A-H-S-T 30

Rolling Hills:

• Adair-Casey 62, Grandview Park Baptist, Des Moines 21
• Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 59, Glidden-Ralston 28
• Orient-Macksburg 33, CAM 27

Others:

• Bedford 66, Lenox 41
• Bondurant Farrar 54, Carroll 38
• Boyer Valley 52, Charter Oak-Ute 34
• Abraham Lincoln 60, Sioux City East 36
• Des Moines Christian 62, Coon Rapids-Bayard 26
• Earlham 63, Guthrie Center 28
• Fremont Mills 67, Clarinda Academy 21
• IKM-Manning 75, Ar-We-Va, Westside 53
• Panorama 65, Van Meter 31
• Sioux City North 53, Thomas Jefferson 23
• Whiting 56, Logan-Magnolia 26
• Woodward-Granger 64, West Central Valley 43

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Ethan Wragge matched career highs with 22 points and six 3-pointers and No. 13 Creighton got off to a blistering start on its way to a 91-61 victory over Drake on Tuesday night. Doug McDermott added 16 points, Jahenns Manigat had 13 and Grant Gibbs 10 for the Bluejays (15-1, 4-0 Missouri Valley Conference), who won their ninth straight game.

Creighton has won 71 straight against opponents .500 or worse, and it was apparent early that the streak was in no jeopardy. The Bluejays, who made a season-high 16 3-pointers, led by 30 points in the first half and by 35 late in the second. Joey King scored 17 points and Jordan Clarke and Micah Mason had 11 apiece for Drake (6-9, 0-4).

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Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call from Tri-Center High School near Neola.

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A new report finds the size of Iowa’s pheasant population has fallen 83-percent since the mid-1990s due to disappearing habitat and a series of harsh winters. Kevin Baskins, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says habitat loss alone would have meant only a 26-percent drop in pheasant numbers. “You kind of have an exponential effect when you have declining habitat combined with harsh winters because they have no cover to escape the conditions they’re facing,” Baskins says. “We’ve had several winters in a row with above-average snowfall.”

A milder winter a year ago, combined with the summer-long drought, helped the pheasant population somewhat. Baskins says the habitat loss combined with several severe winters is making it harder for pheasant chicks to survive. “The other big influence we have weatherwise is when we get into colder and wetter springs,” he says. “The chicks, when they’re hatching, if they’re exposed to those conditions, they succumb to the elements. They don’t have as high a survival rates when we get into the colder and wetter conditions after first hatching.”

Baskins says Iowa lost more than a million acres of habitat between 1996 and 2010. He says higher corn prices prompted many farmers to plow up land that normally would serve as habitat for the birds. Bob-white quail numbers are also in decline. The numbers come from the DNR’s 2013 report on the pheasant population.

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