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Thursday Sports Briefs
  AMES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa State coach Gene Chizik isn't too worried
about the Cyclones overlooking South Dakota State in Thursday's
season opener. Chizik says he knows just what to say if his team
thinks it can take the upstart Jackrabbits lightly.
     Northern Iowa.
     The Panthers thumped Iowa State at home last season. So when
Chizik talks up South Dakota State, which will travel to Ames for
its first-ever game...
Thursday Sports Briefs
  AMES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa State coach Gene Chizik isn't too worried
about the Cyclones overlooking South Dakota State in Thursday's
season opener. Chizik says he knows just what to say if his team
thinks it can take the upstart Jackrabbits lightly.
     Northern Iowa.
     The Panthers thumped Iowa State at home last season. So when
Chizik talks up South Dakota State, which will travel to Ames for
its first-ever game...
Wednesday Sports Briefs
The Seattle Mariners 3 to 2 win over the Minnesota Twins last night, dropped
the Twins 2 games behind the Chicago White Sox in the A.L. Central race.
Jeff Clement returned to the Mariner line-up for the first time since last Friday.
Jeff's single up the middle drove in the 1st two Mariner runs.  He has raised
his average to .227. 

Instant Replay begins as a tool for umpiring crews with game scheduled
tomorrow in Major League Baseball. ...
Tuesday Sports Briefs
The Marshalltown boys golf team came home with the Championship from
the Mark Mann Invitational in Mason City with a 12 shot victory over runner-up
Waterloo West.  The Bobcats 297 total came from Jake Butler (73)..Jamie
Bjorkman, John Ryan (74) and Jordan Alley 76.

With the first regular season football game on Friday for the area high schools,
a reminder to Gladbrook Reinbeck fans.  The game against Garner Hayfield is
a 7 PM start with the game...
Monday Sports Briefs
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson will
be welcomed home to Iowa this week.
     Johnson and her gymnastics coach Liang Chow will answer
questions and talk about their Beijing Olympics experience during a
free public event tomorrow night at Wells Fargo Arena in Des
Moines.
     Johnson, from West Des Moines, won one gold and three silver
medals at the Olympics.
Wednesday Sports
Its a Silver Medal for Shawn Johnson and the US women's gymnastic
team.  China took advantage of some US miscues in the floor exercise
round to out score the Americans...188.900 to 186.525
Johnson scored well ..16.0 in the vault...16.175 in balance beam...
15.350 in uneven bars..and 15.1 in floor exercise.
Johnson still has three more individual events in which she could claim
a gold medal.

The US has a two medal lead over host China, going into...
Iowa Football Districts 2008
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