When I am at football games I always listen to the radio broadcast and almost always bring a pair of wide angle binoculars that I bought specifically for games. But in the process of moving stuff from my Cedar Rapids home to Ames my binoculars went missing. They weren't in the basket where they are kept in the offseason. The case has a pocket for my wired earbuds which you have probably heard me talk of how I use wired buds on my phone to pull in FM radio. So when the binoculars go missing, the gameday earbuds do also.

Last week I looked everywhere in Ames. I looked in my unit, my private garage and private storage area and couldn't find them. I looked at my rented storage space and not there either. I looked everywhere in my car and came up empty. So I figure they must be back in Cedar Rapids. But knowing I have been clearing out most stuff, I really didn't think I would find them there.

So I get back home and search my home with no luck. I figure I'll have to dig into every packed box at the condo in all those spaces I mentioned. As they had to be there. So I get to Ames and spend hours digging through every box in all those areas. I find nothing. Now I'm beginning to think I misplaced them or someone stole them. After hours in the storage room, I go back to my unit and start looking at everything. Nothing.

Just as I'm about to give up I take one last look in the coat closet. And what do I see. A strap hanging down behind the last coat on the rack. I'm on to something now. I grab it and follow it to the shelf where under my stack of hats is my binoculars. It was tucked in to the bottom had completely hidden from view except for the strap. I can't believe I went through all those boxes pulling dozens of them off shelves and going through them just to make sure I didn't put them in one as I was moving stuff to Ames. And there it was. Right where it should have been all the time.

I'm frustrated I wasted so much time searching, but am overjoyed that I found my binoculars and earbuds before the Iowa game. I now declare myself ready.

I am streaming the game. Channel 13 is in a pissing match with Direct TV. But I am able to stream using my Direct TV log in.

I wonder if this will work for AAlda for the Clones on Saturday.

I was not able to attend the game last Saturday. Question for donor lots: Did they open the lots early? Or did they open them right at 6 hours prior? If they did not open them early, were people lining up to get in?

Don't know if it's real or not, but still darned funny.

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Lots of memories here:

I was first disconnected by a voice saying lines are full. Then next call put on hold. Waited over a hour to no avail. Nice company not to do business with.

$125/each (think this was face). DM me and we can make arrangements.

Iowa State Media Relations

Oct. 8 will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of former Cyclone student-athlete Jack Trice. He died from football injuries received several days earlier in Minneapolis during a game against the University of Minnesota.

Iowa State's year-long centennial commemoration of that tragedy and Trice's legacy opened during Homecoming weekend last fall, Nov. 4-6. It included dedicating artist Ivan Toth Depeña's Breaking Barriers sculpture north of the football stadium, launching a lecture series, sharing Trice's story at the university's Iowa State Fair exhibit and the city renaming a section of South Fourth Street in front of the stadium as Jack Trice Way.

Several more events are scheduled this fall:

• Sept. 10, 1-2 p.m., Program, "Through the Photographic Lens: Interpreting Art on Campus and Jack Trice's Legacy," with artist King Au and university museums curators, Christian Petersen Art Museum, Morrill Hall
• Sept. 21, 4:30 p.m., Artist's talk, "Breaking Barriers," Ivan Depeña, second floor atrium, Scheman Building
• Oct. 3, 6 p.m., Jack Trice Legacy Lecture, "Moments of Impact," Jaime Schultz, based on her book of the same name, Sun Room, Memorial Union
• Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m., Lecture, "Trice 100: The Name, The Legacy," George Trice, Trice Legacy Foundation; and Jill Wagner, 1975-76 ISU student body president, Parks Library
• Oct. 7, start time TBA, Jack Trice Legacy Football Game, vs TCU, Cyclones will wear throwback uniforms to pay tribute to Trice, Jack Trice Stadium
• Oct. 8 (100th anniversary of Trice's death), noon, closing ceremony, central campus

In addition, several exhibits about Trice may be viewed this fall. Special collections and university archives' "Once, Twice, Trice: Students Tackle Naming Jack Trice Stadium," highlighting 24 years of student activism to honor Jack Trice and his ideals, is on the first floor of Parks Library through Dec. 31. University museums' "Honoring Jack Trice" is at the Christian Petersen Art Museum's Neva Petersen Gallery in Morrill Hall through Oct. 8.

Ames History Museum's Jack Trice traveling exhibit will be in the Multicultural Center, 2260 Memorial Union, Sept. 25-Oct. 27.

I sat down with the Hawks' beat writer Eliot Clough yesterday for nearly 45 minutes to break down this week's game. Check it out!

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As a holder of a Bachelor's Degree is one of the social sciences, I find TV ratings, aka human behavior, interesting. Of course ratings all depend on what the competition is too. I am a bit concerned by the low numbers for Houston and UCF. I realize they were on FS1, but still, I'd hope they would have done a little better. No ISU number because it was on ESPN+.

On the flip side, the "Coach Prime" hype seems to be working.

I'm surprised about how low Penn State vs WVU was. Might it take a bit for people to flip to NBC for non-Notre Dame football--so they just never found it? That game was at least as compelling at FSU/LSU.

And 2.68 Million people watched Northwestern/Rutgers? What the hell is their problem? Their channel changer broken?

TTU hits a game-tying FG, 20-20 with 0:41 remaining in regulation to force OT.

OT: TDs exchanged, 27-27.

2OT: TTU scores TD and fails 2PT attempt. WYO scores TD, then converts 2PT attempt for 35-33 win.

Exciting finish.

TCU, Baylor, and TTU all drop games as favorites in opener.

We have a split crowd with late arrivers this week. Anyone have a reasonable parking pass in the A, B, or C lots?

Text me 515-371-6781

With Spectrum losing ESPN etc, I need to look at options for streaming. Fubo looks ok, but missing TBS and other March Madness channels. Want them as well. Suggestions?

Brother-in-law is selling 2 seats, Section X, third row. $150 each. Proof of Cyclone fandom is required

With all the ticket issues, haven't seen any comments about the new parking lot.
Any "red lines" crossed?

1. Buddy of mine started talking to the guy sitting next to him and the guy mentioned he played for Iowa State from '68 - '72. My buddy asked him if he knew George Amundson. The guy & his family started laughing...he said "I am George Amundson".
2. Saturday was also my birthday and during our tailgate I was told to stand in front of the tv and everyone gathered around me. Next thing I know, the game that was on the screen stopped and Brent Mussberger was giving me a personalized Cyclone birthday greeting. Pretty freaking cool. My wife gave me one of those from Georges several years ago and she also had Brock give one to our son. Also pretty freaking cool.

ISU down 2 sets but winning 19-17 in the 3rd. Not sure why our volleyball team seems to play like crap against Iowa frequently. Unfortunately not able to watch this live on big ten network + but there are live stats on cyclones.com

Two things that struct me.

Spencer Rattler is on what must be his 6th year. Not a name I expected to see in college football this year.

Mac Brown looks good. Lost a lot of weight. Hard to believe he was at ISU in 1979.

Text me at 612-805-4940 if interested

In general the play calling was fine yesterday with a couple exceptions. 0 routes were bad and ....

Manning loved the multiple hook routes at the same level on 3rd down and 7 or 8. It always looked bad.

We ran that in similar situations yesterday with a similar result. On one play the qb is looking outside and we have two guys 5 yards apart at most both running hook routes at the same depth. Completely covered. QB had to pull it down and run etc.

Run routes at different levels...please.

It just boggles my mind why we think making it easier on dbacks is a good strategy. If you tell me at safety that I have no deep threat on 3rd downs and 7 then I'm going to laugh and jump everything.

Looking for up to 5 on hillside for TOE game.

Iowa State rated higher than Iowa. Next, a win Saturday over toe!