Loading streams...
Ongoing Coverage:
Lead Story
-
The Iowa Cornets
The WNBA opens play this weekend and former University of Iowa player Tangela Smith will be in uniform for the San Antonio Silver Stars. It was here in Iowa, 34 years ago, when women’s professional basketball was born. Iowa Public Radio’s Rick Fredericksen has this look back at the charter team, in this Iowa Archives special.
On January 13, 1980 Molly Bolin set a new single game scoring record of 54 points in a televised game of Iowa Cornets vs Minnesota Fillies of the first Women's Pro Basketball League, the WBL. This video chronicles the achievement.
Local News
Cell phones, computers, televisions – they seem to be everywhere we go. Join...
You've selected the right plant for your landscape, picked a good spot and...
Join host Ben Kieffer as he talks with former White House Press Secretary Dee...
Humorist Josh Billings wrote in the 19th century, “There are two things in life...
Latest from NPR
- Poll: What It's Like To Be Sick In America In the lull between the Supreme Court arguments over the federal health...
- A Dire Sign Of The Obesity Epidemic: Teen Diabetes Soaring, Study Finds Karlton Hill was only 12 years old when when he found out he had diabetes. Even...
- Bee Gee Robin Gibb Dies Of Cancer At 62 Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees has died. Gibb died after a long battle with cancer...
- Three-Minute Fiction: The Round 8 Winner Is... The end of Round 8 of our Three-Minute Fiction contest has finally arrived....
- Vets Return With Brain Injuries Oft Seen In Football Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is best-known for affecting football...