Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

AMES, Iowa (AP) — MaCio Teague scored 15 points and No. 1 Baylor beat Iowa State 67-53. Mark Vital had eight points, 10 rebounds and seven assists for the Bears. Baylor used a 17-2 run midway through the second half to turn a five-point lead into a 59-41 edge with 7:43 left. Devonte Bandoo scored seven of his 12 points off the bench during the spurt, which came after Iowa State coach Steve Prohm was assessed a technical foul. Baylor has won 10 of its past 13 games against the Cyclones. Rasir Bolton led the Cyclones with 19 points and Tyrese Haliburton scored 16.

MIAMI (AP) — Kansas City is back in the Super Bowl 50 years after Chiefs coach Hank Stram cracked up the football world by agreeing to be wired for sound for the big game highlight film. And the way we think of highlights will never be the same. NFL Films took a risk in asking Stram to wear the microphone during Kansas City’s 23-7 victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl 4. It was the first time it had ever been done in the Super Bowl. What came out of it was video gold. The highlight video is now a classic. It’s highlighted by Stram’s stream-of-consciousness patter that was delivered to players, assistants and the refs. These days, highlight films are filled with players and coaches mic’d up, but few can do what Stram did the last time the Chiefs were in the big game.

MIAMI (AP) — It’s common for coordinators in the Super Bowl to have a head coaching position with a new team waiting for them after the game. Not this year. The Kansas City Chiefs have perhaps the most dynamic offense in the NFL and the San Francisco 49ers feature one of the stingiest defenses in the league. The men in charge of both units got interviews but were passed over. Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy interviewed with the Panthers, Browns and Giants during the team’s bye before the playoffs. Niners defensive coordinator Robert Saleh also interviewed with the Browns.

MIAMI (AP) — Brett Veach has boyish looks and a down-to-earth demeanor that probably make many people mistake him for a Super Bowl volunteer. But the former small-college wide receiver is in fact the architect of the best Kansas City Chiefs team in 50 years. Their general manager was instrumental in the drafting of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, he overhauled the entire defense in one offseason, and he helped to give coach Andy Reid the pieces to reach the big game in Miami on Sunday.

MIAMI (AP) — Kansas City’s Travis Kelce and San Francisco’s George Kittle are talkative tight ends at this year’s Super Bowl who are among the most entertaining personalities in the NFL. They also could play big roles in who wins the big game Sunday. Kelce comes up with zany dances to celebrate his touchdowns that instantly go viral moments after he gets into the end zone. Kittle uses a celebratory gesture to honor a Mexican wrestler every time he makes a first down. The two say they love football and life in general. And it shows on and off the field.

MIAMI (AP) — It’s no accident that the league’s two fastest offenses are playing for the Super Bowl title as offenses seek more and more to get playmakers the ball in space rather than just up the middle with brute force. The Kansas City Chiefs with speedsters such as Tyreek Hill and Mecole Hardman were the NFL’s fastest team this season. The San Francisco 49ers were only a tick behind thanks to players such as Raheem Mostert and Matt Breida. The speed will stress the defenses and will play a role in determining who wins the championship.

DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Running back Tevin Coleman returned to practice Wednesday as the San Francisco 49ers began final preparations for the Super Bowl. The Kansas City Chiefs had everyone on the field as they put the finishing touches on their game plan. Coleman dislocated his shoulder in the NFC championship game. Meanwhile, the only injury concerns heading into the week for the Chiefs were defensive tackle Chris Jones, who was hobbled by a calf strain in the AFC title game, and tight end Travis Kelce, who has been dealing with a sore knee. Both looked good during Wednesday’s workout.

MIAMI (AP) — Katie Sowers says being the first woman and openly gay coach to work the Super Bowl feels a bit surreal. She also hopes she’s blazing a path for more to follow. Sowers says she feels like a broken record but will continue saying that the most important thing is that she not be the last woman or openly gay coach at the Super Bowl. Simply attending a Super Bowl was Sowers’ dream growing up in Kansas and playing football in the yard with her twin sister. And yes, becoming an NFL head coach is on the San Francisco assistant’s list.

MIAMI (AP) – Former Chargers and Chiefs linebacker Donnie Edwards is the recipient of the NFL’s 2019 Salute to Service Award. The award was created to acknowledge the exceptional efforts by members of the NFL community to honor and support members of the military community. Edwards will be recognized Saturday night at NFL Honors when The Associated Press presents its individual league awards. USAA will contribute $25,000 in Edwards’ honor to the official aid societies representing all five military branches. The NFL will match USAA’s donation of $25,000, which will be donated to the Edwards’ military charity of choice.

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WACO, Texas (AP) — Juicy Landrum had 22 points to lead five Baylor players in double figures with a 83-to 62 win over the Iowa State Cyclones. The No. 2 Lady Bears stretched their Big 12 regular-season winning streak to 48 games. Te’a Cooper had 19 points while Lauren Cox and DiDi Richards both had double-doubles for the 18-1 Lady Bears. They also have the nation’s longest home court winning streak at 51 games. Their last home loss was to Texas on Feb. 6, 2017, which was also the last time they lost a conference game during the regular season. Maggie Espenmiller-McGraw had 17 points to lead the Cyclones, who played without starting point guard Rae Johnson.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — No. 18 Iowa faces a pair of tests against ranked Big Ten teams to highlight the AP Top 25 schedule this week. The Hawkeyes visit No. 15 Maryland and host No. 19 Illinois. Those are two of the three games nationally that feature two ranked teams. The other comes in the Southeastern Conference, where No. 13 Kentucky and No. 17 Auburn meet in a rematch of last year’s NCAA Elite Eight game won by the Tigers. Top-ranked Baylor also plays twice this week, visiting Iowa State and hosting TCU.

MIAMI (AP) — If you’re planning to walk through the Kansas City Chiefs locker room between lunch and their typical afternoon practice, you might want to grab someone’s helmet. There’s a good chance a pickup basketball game is going on among 300-pound linemen, right there in the middle of it. The scene that unfolds daily during the regular season perfectly sums up the loosy-goosy nature of the team. It’s an approach that could come in handy during the stressful lead-up to the Super Bowl.

MIAMI (AP) — Jimmy Garoppolo had a front-row seat in the best classroom on the best way to prepare for being a starting quarterback in the Super Bowl. Garoppolo watched Tom Brady prepare for two Super Bowl wins as his backup on New England. Now he gets the chance to translate those lessons into his first trip as a starter for the San Francisco 49ers. Garoppolo said Brady’s calmness throughout the pressure-packed week is one of the things that stands out most.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The NFL’s blue medical tent on each sideline is a place no player ever wants to go, and everyone else would love to sneak inside for a peek. There’s no real mystery. Just imagine a portable exam room using a basic pop-up tent anchored by a metal rectangle frame on the ground around an exam table. Then a player walks in, someone pulls the tent into place and people disappear inside away from prying eyes. Dr. Allen Sills is the NFL’s chief medical officer, and he says the tent is a lot more roomy than people might think.

MIAMI (AP) — The NFL has been dealing with hackers, not someone trying to peak into the league’s records or team playbooks. The hackers apparently attacked social media accounts for the league and the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears. The NFL says its cybersecurity department noticed a breach of a league-related social media account, then discovered targeted breaches and additional failed attempts across the league and team accounts. The league told teams to secure their social media accounts to stop further access and alerted the social media platform providers to secure all the accounts.

The Griswold Tigers turned the ball over 15 times in just the first half and fell to the Sidney Cowboys 59-26 on Tuesday night. The Tigers hung around early in the game but once Sidney started to implement a full court press the tide shifted toward the Cowboys. Griswold struggled in-bounding the ball against the press and the Cowboys turned a large number of takeaways into easy buckets.

Sidney led 25-10 at halftime and then blew the game open in the third by outscoring the Tigers by 10 in the quarter. The Cowboys were led by 18 points from Noah Jorgensen. The Cowboys are now 8-7 and will host East Mills on Thursday.

Griswold falls to 2-13 on the year and next up will travel to Tri-Center on Thursday.

Chay Ward poured in 23 points to lead the Sidney Cowgirls to a 49-14 win over the Griswold Tigers on Tuesday night. It was a slow start to the game for both teams. The Cowgirls used an early run to grab a 13 point lead by the end of the first quarter and the half was just a 25-8 lead for Sidney.

The Cowgirls slowly pulled away the rest of the game to move to 8-7 on the season. They head back home to host East Mills on Thursday.

The Tigers fall to 2-13 on the season and will now travel to Tri-Center on Thursday.

Quad @ Clarke
Interstate 35 52, Mount Ayr 26
Interstate-35 58, Clarinda Academy 0
Interstate-36 53, Clarke/Murray 30
West Central Valley 41, Clarke/Murray 36
West Central Valley 59, Clarinda Academy 0
Mount Ayr 57, Clarinda Academy 0
Mount Ayr 36, West Central Valley 20
Clarke/Murray 61, Clarinda Academy 6

Quad @ Creston/O-M
Creston/O-M 39, Harlan 36
Creston/O-M 36, Lewis Central 34
Creston/O-M 58, Carroll 24
Harlan 45, Lewis Central 24
Harlan 46, Carroll 24
Lewis Central 40, Carroll 27
(Harlan, Atlantic/CAM, and Creston/O-M in three way tie for Hawkeye Ten lead)

Tri @ Denison-Schleswig
Kuemper Catholic 48, Glenwood 36
Kuemper Catholic 46, Denison-Schleswig 34
Glenwood 39, Denison-Schleswig 30

Tri @ Griswold 
Bedford/Lenox 54, Griswold 12
Bedford/Lenox 54, West Harrison 18
West Harrison 30, Griswold 18

Tri @ Nodaway Valley
AHSTW 48,  Knoxville 30
AHSTW 48, Nodaway Valley 21
Knoxville 38, Nodaway Valley 27
(AHSTW’s Jaedan Rasmussen recorded his 100th career win)

Quad @ Red Oak
Red Oak 41, Underwood 39
Red Oak 59, Central Decatur 18
Red Oak 57, East Mills 16
Underwood 58, Central Decatur 7
Underwood 45, East Mills 36
East Mills 40, Central Decatur 28

Tri @ Riverside
Missouri Valley 51, Riverside 26
Missouri Valley 66, MVAOCOU 12
Riverside 65, MVAOCOU 18

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 55, Kuemper Catholic 54 (McKenzie Waters hit game winning free throws with :04 left in the game)
Glenwood 87, Creston 46
Harlan 37, Denison-Schleswig 33

Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 55, Missouri Valley 14
Audubon 67, Riverside 36
IKM-Manning 63, OABCIG 38
Logan-Magnolia 63, Underwood 47
Treynor 52, Tri-Center 18

Rolling Valley Conference
Coon Rapids-Bayard 55, Ar-We-Va 40
Glidden-Ralston 47, CAM 36
Paton-Churdan 62, West Harrison 29

Corner Conference
Sidney 49, Griswold 14 (Chay Ward- 23pts)
Stanton 49, East Mills 39

Pride of Iowa Conference
Central Decatur 61, Southeast Warren 33
Nodaway Valley 69, Bedford 26
SW Valley 50, Lenox 46
Wayne 45, East Union 43

Other Scores
Carroll 70, Perry 40
CB Abraham Lincoln 44, CB Thomas Jefferson 30
Des Moines Christian 56, Interstate 35 27
Mount Ayr 62, Van Meter 24
Pleasantville 58, Chariton 53 (2OT)
Woodward-Granger 44, AC/GC 40
Winterset 62, ADM 59

BOYS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference
Glenwood 71, Creston 51
Harlan 54, Denison-Schleswig 48
Kuemper Catholic 64, Atlantic 60
Savannah, MO 62, Clarinda 51

Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 80, Missouri Valley 54 (Clayton Akers- 33 points, 8 3’s)
Audubon 53, Riverside 46
OABCIG 49, IKM-Manning 46 OT
Treynor 66, Tri-Center 44
Underwood 61, Logan-Magnolia 49

Rolling Valley Conference
CAM, Anita 66, Glidden-Ralston 54
Coon Rapids-Bayard 59, Ar-We-Va 35

Corner Conference
Fremont-Mills 58, Clarinda Academy 29
Sidney 59, Griswold 26 (Noah Jorgensen- 18pts)
Stanton 42, East Mills 38

Other Scores
Carroll 73, Perry 44
CB Abraham Lincoln 62, CB Thomas Jefferson 47
Chariton 71, Pleasantville 57
Van Meter 48, Mount Ayr 43
Winterset 64, ADM, Adel 61

The Griswold Tigers play host to the Sidney Cowgirls and Cowboys tonight for a Corner Conference basketball doubleheader and we’ll have coverage for you on KJAN.

The girls game will match the 2-11 Tigers against the 7-7 Cowgirls. The boys matches a 2-12 Griswold team against the 7-7 Cowboys.

Chris Parks will have the call tonight from the Griswold High School with pregame at 5:50 p.m. prior to the girls game at 6:00 p.m. The boys will follow at about 7:30 p.m. Tune in on AM 1220, FM 101.1, and online at kjan.com. Griswold students also plan to have the live video stream of the games rolling on GrizTigerVision through the KJAN Video Network.

The University of Iowa plans to build a new wrestling training facility to meet the needs of one of the most successful athletic programs in the country. Pending approval by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, the UI will begin planning a new facility adjacent to Carver-Hawkeye Arena that supports Iowa Wrestling’s championship standards and validates Iowa City’s reputation as the greatest wrestling city in the world.

The proposed facility, funded entirely by gifts, will be located south of Carver-Hawkeye Arena and connected to the arena by tunnel. It will include an expanded training space and feature a Hall of Champions that showcases the program’s legendary history — including 23 NCAA team titles, 35 Big Ten Conference team titles, 84 NCAA individual championships, and 335 All-America honors.

The new facility will also allow the university to continue its tradition of hosting the world’s top senior level and international wrestling events, including the U.S. Olympic Trials and the United World Wrestling Cup, which attract tens of thousands of wrestling fans to Iowa City and delivers a multi-million dollar economic impact to the community.

To date, the project has received over $9 million in gift commitments, which in part funded a preliminary needs assessment and design plan. Upon approval by the Board of Regents, formal planning will begin with budget development and architect selection.

The Hawkeye wrestling team will continue to compete in its home at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, known internationally as a wrestling mecca and the NCAA leader in attendance in each of the last 13 seasons.