High School Basketball
Mediapolis will travel to Winfield-Mt. Union tonight for a doubleheader with game time at 6 pm.
Columbus will take on New London tonight at home with the girls playing first at 6 pm.
WACO will stay on the road tonight to compete against Highland with the girls leading off the night at 6 pm.
Van Buren County will take on Danville with the girls tipping off the night at 6 pm tomorrow, December 20th, at home.
Holy Trinity Catholic will face off against Burlington Notre Dame tomorrow with game one at 6 pm.
West Burlington will compete against Central Lee tomorrow with the boys following the girls’ game at 7:30 pm.
Wapello will face off against Columbus tomorrow with game time at 6 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will host Washington tomorrow in a doubleheader with the girls’ tipping-off the night at 6 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 5:45 pm.
Fairfield will travel to Keokuk tomorrow with the girls’ tipping-off the night at 6 pm.
High School Wrestling
Mt. Pleasant will dual Fort Madison tonight at home.
Fairfield will take on Burlington on the road tonight.
The New London boys’ team will face off against Pekin tonight on the road.
WACO will compete in a double dual tonight against Mediapolis and Burlington Notre Dame at home.
The Wapello boys’ team will celebrate their senior night tonight in a triangular against Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union and Van Buren County.
The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union girls’ team will compete in the John Randles Invite at Prairie on Saturday, December 21st.
The Wapello girls’ team will travel to Chariton for an invitational on Saturday.
High School Bowling
Mt. Pleasant will travel to Burlington tomorrow, December 20th, for a triangular.
Southeast Iowa Playbook
Last night’s episode of the Southeast Iowa Playbook featured Jeff Broeg, a member of Iowa’s Racing Hall of Fame’s 2024 class. Through his nearly 50-year career, Broeg was quick to recall his favorite memory,
“Oh well, probably my favorite time was when we ran a racing series that benefited the National Kidney Foundation of Iowa back from 1998 through 2001 and I made so many friends through that time period, not just with racers, but also, you know, the ladies from the Southeast Iowa Renal Dialysis unit. They would come and help us out at our races at Burlington and at Donaldson and as we raise money for the dialysis unit. And that has to be my favorite time period. And not only that, but you know, one of the things that I make my daughter cry every time I talk about this because she worked for me on the final two seasons that we ran it at the age of 17-18, you know, and it’s like how many dads get the opportunity to work with their daughter and spend that much time driving down the road, going to a race track here or there and that really helped boost our relationship. Definitely, that’s been my favorite time.”
If you missed last night’s episode of the Southeast Iowa Playbook, then follow this link: Jeff Broeg’s Episode
Southeastern Community College
The #20 men’s basketball team will take on Western Iowa Tech at home on January 8th with tip-off scheduled for 7 pm.
College Football
#18 Iowa State will face off against #16 Miami in the Pop Tarts Bowl on December 28th at 2:30 pm in Orlando.
Iowa will take on #19 Missouri for the Music City Bowl on December 30th in Nashville at 1:30 pm.
College Basketball
The #3 Iowa State men’s team will host Morgan State on Sunday, December 22nd, with game time scheduled for noon.
The Iowa men’s team will meet Utah on Saturday, December 21st, at 5 pm in a road matchup.
The #22 Iowa women’s team will face off against Northern Iowa tomorrow, December 20th, at 6:30 pm at home.
The Iowa State women’s team will look to get back in the win column on Saturday on the road against Oklahoma State at 4 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1904 – The Dawson City hockey team begins their 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup.
1984 – Wayne Gretzky, at the age of 23, is the 18th and youngest NHL player to score 1,000 points.
2010 – “Miracle at the New Meadowlands”, the Philadelphia Eagles trail the New York Giants by 21 points with eight minutes to play, before scoring four touchdowns in the final seven minutes, including a dramatic walk-off punt return for a touchdown by DeSean Jackson.