Jeff Johnson

2 days ago | thegazette.com | Jeff Johnson

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS - He made the Iowa Heartlanders relevant on the ice and worked tirelessly to do the same off the ice, but Derek Damon is moving along. About an hour and a half west, to be specific. The head coach and general manager of the ECHL hockey club has resigned to take a job as head coach and president of hockey operations of the USHL’s Des Moines Buccaneers, it was announced Monday afternoon.

4 days ago | thegazette.com | Jeff Johnson

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — The super senior six. They did so much for the Coe College baseball program in their careers. Won a ton of games, including this season, made it to the NCAA tournament a couple of times. They were good, they were tough. They were epitomized by Mitchell Eckardt.

4 days ago | thegazette.com | Jeff Johnson

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS - Forget the earned run average right now. Don’t look at the win-loss record because that’s always hugely overrated. Let’s focus on these three numbers with Alejandro Hidalgo of the Cedar Rapids Kernels. They are 24, 33 and 5. The Cedar Rapids Kernels pitcher has thrown 24 innings about a month into the Midwest League season. He has struck out 33 opposing batters.

5 days ago | thegazette.com | Jeff Johnson

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS - It’s chapter one of that great book “Favorite Cliches In Sports.” Or maybe it’s the fourth or fifth chapter. At any rate, they say it’s difficult to beat a team of similar quality twice in a row. Doesn’t matter if it’s football, basketball, hockey, baseball or Tiddlywinks. Yet Buena Vista’s baseball team has knocked off Coe four times in a little less than a week.

6 days ago | thegazette.com | Jeff Johnson

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — How legit are they? Are they in the NCAA baseball tournament? Are they not in the NCAA baseball tournament? If they’re not in, what do they need to do in the final six games of the regular season to assure they get in? So many questions surrounding these Iowa Hawkeyes. Some of the answers will become evident in the next two weeks, including this weekend.