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May 20

No Golden Domes for Clyde or Jack

Iowa State is one of three BCS teams within a 500-mile range of Notre Dame that the Fighting Irish have never played in football. The echoes have never been awakened at Clyde Williams Field or Jack Trice Stadium. The other … Continue reading

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May 19

The die-hardest of the die-hards

Why my parents are the biggest, most loyal Cyclone fans ever: They recorded episodes of “The Jim Walden Show” in fall 1994. As in, the “oh-fer” season. As in, 0-7-1 and still making an effort to watch the recap of … Continue reading

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May 19

Iowa, Illinois not communicating on I-74 bridge

As noted in the previous post, the Iowa DOT released its five-year draft May 8. The only items for the I-74 Mississippi River bridge area concerned right-of-way and some paving. There had been $63 million set aside for bridge construction, … Continue reading

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May 18

Viking Road interchange with IA 58 – How?

The Iowa DOT’s draft five-year plan released this month still puts the big money toward urban interstate projects, but it has a couple of surprises inside. One of the projects of note is IA 58 and Viking Road in Cedar Falls, … Continue reading

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May 17

Huskers still have a spot for Iowa State

…but Northwestern is starting to make itself feel right at home there. Northwestern’s dominance against Nebraska in the latter’s first year in the Big Television Big Ten Conference has Husker fans scratching their heads in “this shouldn’t happen to us! … Continue reading

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May 17

About those KU plates in Missouri

Maybe not. (Lawrence Journal-World) Note at the end, again, a Missourian suggesting that it’s all Kansas’ fault that the teams won’t play each other anymore.

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May 17

No varsity football for South Hardin in 2012

Wow. I never would have expected it. It’s a gender-balance issue: “If the state would take a boys’ count, we’d be a medium 1-A school,” the Register quotes coach Randy Tjaden as saying. The merged ENP/HR district plays in 2-A.

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May 16

Conferencepocalypse III?

Seneca Wallace was IN! Until a few days ago, the notion of Florida State and Clemson hauling themselves over to the Big 12 was only on the level of “infinite monkeys on infinite college sports message boards.” Then, suddenly, there … Continue reading

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May 15

Rochester reroute of US 63

Since the opening of the Ottumwa and Kirksville bypasses, Waterloo has had more stoplights on US 63 than the entire route from I-90 to US 50/54 in Jefferson City combined. It was the only highway in the Waterloo area that … Continue reading

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May 14

Sabula bridge scheduled to be replaced

One of the new components in the DOT’s 2013-17 construction plan is the replacement of the US 52/IA 64 bridge at Iowa’s far eastern end in 2016. It would be the third major river bridge in Iowa to be replaced … Continue reading

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