I hadn't counted on him being back anyway, but I guess Sean Shaw wants to take his Covid year...and he'll do it elsewhere.

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Eleven offers and FutureCast & FanFutureCast has him a Hawkeye.

Hawkeye Homers Miller and Condon are at full speed with their Squawk hype this morning.
Hype summary:
With the new addition of the former Buckeye receiver....
Will be one of the best offenses in Big 10 West....
Great passing attack in place. .
Impressive tight ends.....
Top 20 defense......
Blah, Blah, Blah, blah, blah

But they are flabbergasted that FanDuel favors the Cyclones by 1 1/2 pts

I'd love it to be a prelude and repeat of the 2005 CyHawk game. No. 8 Suckeyes humbled 28-3 at Jack Trice. That was a beautiful Cyclone win.

Tennis is underway in a second round matchup against #22 Wisconsin. Live Stats

Softball is about to take the field against Kansas. You can follow that on ESPN+ at 2:00pm.

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – For the first time in program history, the Iowa State tennis program is headed to the NCAA Super Regionals. The No. 12 Cyclones (20-5, 7-2 Big 12) defeated No. 22 Wisconsin (20-7, 8-3 Big 10), 4-1, Saturday afternoon in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

In the victory, Miska Kadleckova picked up her 29thsingles victory of the season, breaking the single-season school record held by Ann Camblin and Kathy Reisinger (1984-85). Kadleckova owns both the single-season singles and doubles win totals with 29 each.

How It Happened

For the 19th time this season, Iowa State earned the doubles point with victories at the top two spots. The Cyclones improved to 19-1 on the year when winning in doubles. No. 54 Anna Supapitch Kuearum and Thasaporn Naklo downed Xinyu Cai and Alina Mukhortova 6-2 at No. 1. At number two doubles, No. 77 Xinyi Nong and Ange Oby Kajuru downed Ava Markham and Maria Sholokhova 6-1.

Wisconsin evened the match with the first singles victory, as Mukhortova downed Kuearum 6-2, 6-2 at No. 4 singles. Iowa State took the lead for good with a victory at No. 1 singles, as Naklo downed Markham 6-4, 6-2. Kadleckova made quick work of Taylor Cataldi at No. 3 singles 6-0, 6-3 to inch the Cyclones closer to history.

It was a race between Kajuru and Chie Kezuka to lock up the victory for the Cyclones. Kajuru led No. 72 Sholokhova 6-3, 5-4, but Kezuka got the victory first as she beat Charmaine Seah 6-1, 6-3 at No. 6 to lock up the victory.

Up Next

Iowa State will face either No. 6 Duke or No. 20 UCLA in the NCAA Super Regionals. The two schools will face off later Saturday night for the right to advance. The site is yet to be determined.

DOUBLES RESULTS
Order of Finish: 2, 1
#1 – No. 54 Anna Supapitch Kuearum/Thasaporn Naklo (ISU) def. Xinyu Cai/Alina Mukhortova (UW), 6-2
#2 – No. 77 Xinyi Nong/Ange Oby Kajuru (ISU) def. Ava Markham/Maria Sholokhova (UW), 6-1
#3 – Sofia Cabezas/Miska Kadleckova (ISU) vs. Taylor Cataldi/Charmaine Seah (UW), 4-3, uf

SINGLES RESULTS
Order of Finish: 4, 1, 3, 6
#1 – No. 60 Thasaporn Naklo (ISU) def. No. 59 Ava Markham (UW), 6-4, 6-2
#2 – No. 66 Ange Oby Kajuru (ISU) vs. No. 72 Maria Sholokhova (UW), 6-3, 5-4, uf
#3 – Miska Kadleckova (ISU) def. Taylor Cataldi (UW), 6-0, 6-3
#4 – Alina Mukhortova (UW) def. Anna Supapitch Kuearum (ISU), 6-2, 6-2
#5 – Sofia Cabezas (ISU) vs. No. 120 Xinyu Cai (UW), 4-6, 6-1, uf
#6 – Chie Kezuka (ISU) def. Charmaine Seah (UW), 6-1, 6-3

No. 11 Cyclones Sweep Drake in NCAA First Round

The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel will vote on this stuff in June.

Change to legal guarding position recommended for men’s basketball​

Al Jaffee died yesterday at 102 years of age.

For those of us/you old enough to remember this mag, he was probably most famous for the "fold-in" page.

Back in the day I loved it. "Spy vs. Spy" was one of my favorites therein.

I believe Jaffee didn't "retire" until age 99.

It's events like this that make me consider the chronological position of my life.

Edit: Apparently still around...

Mad Magazine

Cyclones SB Earn Series-Opening Victory Over Kansas

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State’s student-athletes continue to have success in the classroom, matching the school record for multi-year (987) and posting a one-year (987) institutional Academic Progress Rate (APR) score, according to data compiled by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The multi-year rate is calculated based upon the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years, while the one-year score was off the 2021-22 academic year.

Ten of Iowa State’s 16 programs are above the national multi-year average – men’s cross country (990), football (987), men’s golf (1,000), men’s track (976), wrestling (995), women’s basketball (995), softball (994), women’s swimming (996), women’s track (988) and volleyball (1,000).

Six programs – football, men’s golf, wrestling, women’s basketball, swimming and diving and volleyball either led or tied for the lead in the Big 12 Conference.

ISU’s multi-year institutional APR average of 987 ranked third in the Big 12 behind only Texas and West Virginia, both of whom registered 990 marks. It marked the seventh-straight year that ISU’s multi-year APR score either set or matched a new school-record. Baylor (984), Kansas State (983), Kansas (982), Oklahoma State (981), Texas Tech (979), TCU (977) and Oklahoma (977) rounded out the Big 12 rankings.

Seven Iowa State teams have perfect single-year scores – men’s golf, women’s basketball, women’s cross country, swimming and diving, tennis, women’s track and field and volleyball.

Each academic year, every Division I sports team across the country calculates its APR using a simple and consistent formula. Each term, scholarship student-athletes can earn 1 point for remaining eligible and 1 point for staying in school or graduating. For schools that do not offer scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked.

The Academic Performance Program has established an essential framework for academic excellence. The program provides measurable goals to ensure schools are fulfilling their commitment of equipping student-athletes with the tools and resources necessary to achieve academic success.

Throughout 19 years of the Academic Performance Program, more than 20,000 student-athletes have gone back to school to earn their degrees – earning points for their former team. These student-athletes are typically not counted in the federal graduation rate or Graduation Success Rate calculations.

The minimum APR academic standard for each team is 930. Typically, teams that scored below the benchmark would have to face penalties that encourage an emphasis and prioritization on academics. However, due to the current penalty suspension in place, teams will not be subjected to penalties this year.

Iowa State’s Multi-Year APR Scores (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 Academic Years):

Men’s Programs: Basketball: 946; Cross Country: 990; Football: 987; Golf: 1,000; Outdoor Track and Field: 976.

Women’s Programs: Basketball: 995; Cross Country: 985; Golf: 980; Gymnastics: 990; Soccer: 984; Softball: 994; Swimming and Diving: 996; Tennis: 984; Outdoor Track and Field: 988; Volleyball: 1,000.

For discussion purposes, but some people are sounding the alarm that the world will have to few people (seems so strange to talk about this concept).

The world is over 9B people now and will likely grow to 10B people, but it also likely will never see 11B, as the population is expected to crater. I just watched a video on China population that says that China has overestimated their population by 100M, and most of that was in terms on women. And all of these were in the working age time frame. The demographics for China look really bad (but they are not the only ones with bad demographics). Here are some devastating prediction now for China:

China Population is now 1.3B not 1.4B.
China maxed out over 10 years ago.
By 2030 China will have more retired people than working people.
By 2050, China's population will be down to 650M !

And China is only the beginning. Japan is in decline. Most of the civilized countries of the world now have birth rates below self sustaining. My sons call this the effect of feminism. Women just don't want to have many kids. The Population curves look really bad for most countries, still rapidly growing in the 3rd world, but their are less countries now in that 3rd world.

So I have seen predictions that the world by 2300 will be at approximately 2.5B people, and this is a huge negative to the world. A lot of old people and very few working age people.

Some interesting Links:

De-Population Bomb

China's coming collapse

Still trying to interpret this data, it just seems so strange to contemplate.

Shows you the absolute stupidity of the Woke movement. First the alphabet crowd request that we call them by their proper pronoun. Now they are complaining in videos that calling them by the pronoun that they request is now insulting. Why? Because it means they look a certain way, and that offends them. Many of the alphabet crowd look very different from normal people ( and apparently deep down this bothers them), and identifying them with the correct pronoun that they request , means they are part of the strange looking crowd, and they don't like the fact the they look very different from regular people.

So if you talk to the woke crowd the wrong way, you are wrong. And if you talk to them correctly, you are still wrong.

I totally expect that soon the woke crowd will be requesting that we all dress and style ourselves to look like they do, so they won't feel out of place, because they do look so very different.

Dead at 84. I think we had a thread about him sometime in the past year. Great songs.

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I'm going to be running this series again in 2023, catching up with high school recruits as they prepare to graduate and join the Iowa State football program next month. Let's start with Jamison Patton.

LINK

Does Ralph's dismissal get us to 85 Scholarships for now?

Is anyone else seeing the couple of bigs who just entered the portal in the last couple of days..... thinking ....hmmmm. That guy might have put us over the top instead we kept..... and no I'm not thinking of Ward.

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I can't imagine this is legal.

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Can’t fix stupid

And he confessed. If he wrestles, the Brands might have a spot for him.

How a December crime is just showing up in May is messed up.

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Pennsylvania OT evaluates Iowa State offer, June visit

I know many, if not most, of you have already travelled this path. But may daughter and SIL have allowed me to let the cat out of the bag. I have a grandson coming around November 1. It's my first from my genes. I am over the moon!

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Spring practice stop puts ISU on Brix's official visit radar