Monthly Archives: August 2012

Aug 07

How television ate college football

Andy Staples has an excellent long piece at SI.com. A key passage about the most recent events: Later, when it came time to add a 14th school, SEC leaders took Missouri. Clemson or Florida State might have made more geographic sense, … Continue reading

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Aug 06

Everything except Business 20

July 25, 2012: The westernmost part of Business 20 through Fort Dodge now goes west a short bit on what was D26 before turning due south to immediately meet new 20. D36 is the designation for old 20 through Moorland … Continue reading

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Aug 05

No construction on IA 330

Planned work to build shoulders on the road south of Albion has been scrapped. (Marshalltown Times-Republican) Something was going to have to give, since the houses in the former village of Marietta are so close to the road. The road … Continue reading

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Aug 03

Where I haven’t been in Iowa

After my latest excursion to the northwest (more on that eventually), I have been to or through all by 15 of Iowa’s 500 largest cities. The top of the “unvisited” list is Blue Grass (#211), by virtue of not really … Continue reading

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Aug 01

The most the New York Times has written about Iowa State

I’m not completely sure the statement in the headline is true, but the vast majority of this article about what Penn State faces with scholarship reduction deals with just HOW BAD Cyclone football was in the Jim Walden era thanks … Continue reading

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