DOJ announces that Jack Smith will be gone before inauguration and all of his cases dropped! This is the BIDEN DOJ doing this. My guess is some people covering their asses before the new boss shows up.

Also Trump is now at 312 in the EC, and up by almost 5M on the popular vote. This was a landslide ! The Atlantic blue wall is showing weakness for the 2028 election and will be targeted by the GOP.

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State senior Conrad Hawley will have surgery on his left shoulder this week and will be out indefinitely.

Hawley suffered the injury late in Iowa State's 83-44 season opening victory against Mississippi Valley State.

The Bench CEO, Hawley has appeared in 19 games in his Iowa State career.

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State women’s basketball sophomore Audi Crooks completed the clean sweep of preseason National Player of the Year Watch Lists on Tuesday when the rising star was named to the “Wade Watch” for the 2025 Wade Trophy, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced.

Crooks has already been named to the Preseason Watch Lists for the Naismith Trophy and Wooden Award this season. She was also named a unanimous choice for the Preseason All-Big 12 Team, Preseason AP All-America Honorable Mention and Preseason All-America Second Team by The Athletic. The Algona, Iowa native also appears on the Lisa Leslie Award Watch List for the nation’s top center in women’s basketball.

Through No. 8 Iowa State’s first three contests of the 2024-25 season, Crooks averages 16.3 points and 7.7 rebounds per game while shooting 50 percent from the floor. Against Southern, the 6-3 center posted 17 points and a game-high 11 rebounds for her ninth career double-double. She finished 7-of-11 from the floor while also passing out three assists and nabbing a steal in 23 minutes of action.

The 2023 AP All-America Honorable Mention and First Team All-Big 12 selection set an Iowa State single-season record for made field goals (258) and freshman records for points (635) and made free throws (114) a season ago. Crooks has now tallied 684 points and 282 rebounds through 36 games in her career while shooting over 57 percent (276-483) from the floor.

Crooks and the No. 8 Cyclones return to action on Thursday night, taking on St. Thomas (MN). Tip-off is set for 6:30 p.m. in Hilton Coliseum.

They show college basketball men and women's rosters. Why don't they give us the height and "weight" on the women's site?

This has been designated for a six-day selection window. We'll likely know kickoff time this Saturday night.

At the rate we are going we will be out of the top ten soon.

Iowa State's head coach will meet with the media shortly after Noon for his weekly press conference that looks ahead to Saturday night's home game against Cincinnati. I'll have highlights in the thread below.

Strength and conditioning staff? This many injuries is not a coincidence. They are definitely doing something wrong.

It is scary as to how it could be plausible, but I doubt it. Maybe Biden was not so stupid! Trump the Godfather.

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The Cyclones and Roos tip off around 7:00 tonight in Hilton Coliseum. The game will be carried on ESPN+. I’ll have the live court-side updates for you in the thread below.

My opinion - Rocco needs to play better. He missed some key throws at critical times the last couple weeks which could have resulted in points.
In his defense, the OL can be criticized for not giving him enough time on occasion. His stat line isn’t bad - but what it doesn’t show was the make-up of the incompletions, such as the missed bunny to Klotz in the end zone. That was a well designed play he just needed to execute with a touch pass.. He’s not seeing open receivers at times, and is missing them too frequently when he does see them.
Given our injury situation, we really need him to be at his best each week, and we aren’t always getting that.
Now he isn’t the only party to blame for today’s debacle - he wasn’t responsible for pass coverage or QB pressure, but that is a subject for another post.

A very smart woman who brings receipts and logic to her argument for voting for Trump.....

Megyn Kelly

Teams with zero TDs and three turnovers have gone 0-147 since 2010 until the Vikings did it Sunday in a 12-7 win over Jacksonville. The last team to win with those stats before Sunday was the Packers in 2006 against, ironically, the Vikings.

That was a comment on msnbc.

They don't understand how condescending that is.
They piss off:
The Republicans and who do have degrees.
All non college grads.
Independents who feel the dems are elitists.

As someone who has lived in small town Iowa with a college degree for 41 years. You just don't talk like that if you want friends.

They'd be soo much farther ahead to just teach and try to win people over. Instead they preach and blame demographics

Went to KC Saturday. It was shocking to realize how depleted the Cyclones are. I'm not pointing out anyone. I'm just saying we don't have enough healthy personnel to field a competitive Big12 team. Getting another W is going to be very difficult. The Cyclone curse is alive and well.

Just got to give a shout out to the Glenwood, IA girls XC teams that are coached by my daughter. On Thursday night in Carroll, IA. The Glenwood teams swept the Hawkeye 10 Conference meet. Varsity, JV, and MS girls teams all came in first in their races.
Imo, the best achievement was done by the MS girls team. Last year they only had 4 MS girls out, and of course weren't in any team scoring in any meets.
This season a bunch of MS girls switched from sitting on the bench at VB games and joined the XC team.
They evidently learned how to run and compete in short order.
For the HS varsity and JV teams this was their 3rd conference Championship in a row, and the 4th in 5 yrs.
In the words of a University of Nebraska XC assistant coach in attendance at the meet Thursday: "These Glenwood girls have what it takes".
Now the real season starts next week for the HS Varsity girls with the State qualifying event in Harlan on Wednesday.
Crossing my fingers that the Glenwood girls continue to run well.