The crown jewel of Fort Dodge championship hospitality has always been the state softball tournament, now 53 years and nearly one million all-time spectators strong. What many people may not know is that next year will mark our community’s 30th anniversary of hosting the co-ed state cross ...

Iowa football fans are growing increasingly despondent as the team’s offense sputters closer to the danger zone. Iowa State supporters are tired of seeing the series tilt in favor of their arch rival, with a dry spell that currently stretches all the way back to 2014. Something’s gotta ...

All roads from an eight-week journey of accomplishments, adversity and everything in between have led to Rogers Sports Complex and Fort Dodge, as the 2022 state softball tournament gets under way on Monday. Fort Dodge, the Class 5A champion in 2021, serves as an active tourney host for a fifth ...

The natural tendency is to take all of this for granted — feeling, after a while, like it’s always been this way. The winning. The records. Advancing to state like it’s a birthright. Contending for championships. For five consecutive seasons, the Fort Dodge softball program has made ...

The list of Iowa’s career 100-game high school softball winners appears lengthy at first blush. The names appear annually in the state tournament program. Full-page spread, small type, sharing space as a seven-decade trip down memory lane for our state’s all-time great pitchers. Fort ...

Sports are my passion, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’m also a big fan of musicals. To clarify, I’m no aficionado — mostly just an admirer from afar. This dates back to witnessing my first Fort Dodge Senior High performance, a rousing rendition of “Oklahoma!” in the ...