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SIAP but …

1. So many of them really do look like kids.
2. Ngoyi. The kid from Neb. For a frosh he’s got a BODY!

I just skimmed it and covers a lot of angles from potential future private equity interest to why Yormark would be interested in UCONN and a lot in between.

I'm kind of half-assed looking at traveling to Thailand this winter. I've always wanted to go to Thailand (1) because it's so cheap to live there and (2) I absolutely love Thai food and Thai street food looks even more amazing.

The big problem for me is flying. No, I'm not afraid of flying, I'm afraid of the seating. I'm a big guy. Economy class seating is no good for me and business class is too damned expensive. First class? Forget about it. I was looking at Economy premium seating and that seems more reasonable price wise, but are the leg room and seats really as advertised? I saw somewhere that the leg room is like 7 inches more and the seats are slightly wider. Or would it just be cheaper to buy two economy class seats side by side (do they charge a premium for seats that are side by side? Is that even doable?).

I'll probably never end up going anyway because I'm just so darned lazy, but it's nice to dream, isn't it?

Creepy new ad he is putting out for special mugs you can purchase. Very Dark Joe Biden

With the conference realignments leaving UC-Berkeley and Stanford by their lonesome, Governor Gavin Newsome has announced the formation of the new California Conference. With USC and UCLA gone, the remaining 24 Division I schools in the state are mandated to be in the new conference, or be forced to operate all classes by Zoom. Among the other highlights.

- Diane Feinstein had been appointed Conference Commissioner for life
- Newsome will appoint her Senate replacement.
- All team mascots must be a plant
- All teams must travel by electric vehicle.
- Every team in every sport is required to have at least on transgender athlete on scholarship
- Every team in every sport must have at least one undocumented immigrant on scholarship.
- No school may schedule an athletic event against a Big 12 school.
- All teams will boycott states that have abortion restrictions.
- National Anthem will be replaced by a gay pride anthem of each school’s choice.
- All black athletes participating in the conference will be paid reparations.
- Law enforcement will not be allowed inside the athletic venues.
- Sociology majors will be on hand to get to the root causes of any conflicts.
- All fences will be left open at all times.
- During off-seasons, athletic venues will be used as housing or encampments for the homeless and undocumented migrants.
- All concessions will be grab and run.
- No champions will be crowned, but every participant will be awarded a rainbow ribbon.

ISU just announced a welcome to the big 12 on its social media accounts to the trio.

Good stuff!

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Nyamer mic'd up

There are 28 states that offer online gambling. Why haven’t we heard of anyone outside of Iowa being charged?

CMC will meet with the media at 10:30 this morning. I'll be posting highlights in the thread below.

We set up for rivalries on the last weekend or 2 to draw TV interest.

1. BYU/UU
2. UA/ASU
3. KSU/ISU
4. CU/KU
5. WVU/UC
6. OSU/TECH
7. BAYLOR/TCU
8. UH/UCF

Figure names with appropriate trophies. Othe rivalries that need to be annually honored include, but not limited to, ISU/OSU, KU/KSU, Baylor/Houston, TCU/Tech and if any PAC rivalries exist, honor those as well. The more legitimate rivalries that exist, the more it adds to season games.

I could have sworn I remembered Arizona having played in the Rose Bowl 20-30 years ago, so I did some Rose Bowl research.

It was actually Arizona State who played in 1987 and 1997. They beat Michigan in '87 (22-15). ASU's coach was none other than our own John Cooper.

ASU lost to Ohio State in 1997 (20-17). Bruce Snyder was the coach that year.

And the funnest Rose Bowl fact of all that I discovered: Over the past 70 years, only one team has been shut out in the Rose Bowl. May I introduce you to your "not-quite-ready-for prime-time" 1982 Iowa Hawkeyes, who got skunked 28-0 by Washington.

Was that the game Ronnie Harmon suddenly had butter fingers and fumbled 4 times?

Per this tweet from Travis Hines...

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Go buy iowa tickets folks, to help keep the stench down for that game.

• Directors ($15,000+) Level Cyclone Club members may begin purchasing tickets on Monday, July 31 at 10:00am.
• Victory ($7,500) Level Cyclone Club members may begin purchasing tickets on Tuesday, August 1 at 10:00am.
• Captains ($3,750) Level Cyclone Club members may begin purchasing tickets on Wednesday, August 2 at 10:00am.
• Gold ($1,500) & Cardinal ($750) Level Cyclone Club members may begin purchasing tickets on Thursday, August 3 at 10:00am.
• States ($300) & Century ($100) Level Cyclone Club members and non-donor season ticket holders may begin purchasing tickets on Friday, August 4 at 10:00am.

I'll share some of the highlights in a separate piece, but here's the transcript of his nearly 10-minute open to today.

LINK

• Bedlam (Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State)
• The Apple Cup (Washington vs. Washington State)
• The Civil War (Oregon vs. Oregon State)

Natural geographic rivalries will be a thing of the past. $$$$$ rules.

I saw this Tweeted and really loved it. I'd like to see if someone could make an Iowa State version.

Will be cool watching them tonight. You likely won't want to miss as we probably won't get a whole lot of regional coverage of the Jets. McDonald a rookie, Lazard in a somewhat new offense, and Breece coming off his rehabbed knee. Should get a number of snaps, though they may bring Breece along slowly after his rehab.

Sec W | Row 6 | Seats 15 & 16 | Parking C4 Donor | Seats have chairbacks.

Games currently available:
OSU, TCU, UT.

Great seats on 50 y/l - $250 total, ISU fans only; PM me here or text 503-313-5216.