Category Archives: Sports

Nov 07

Another ISU-Oklahoma number to remember

Two hundred and ninety. It was 290 days after Iowa State’s last win over Oklahoma in football that Tim Berners-Lee published the first website. That is to say, the last time ISU beat OU, the World Wide Web did not … Continue reading

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Nov 04

The Crimson Monkey: Silver Anniversary

What better way to come off an awesome, fun victory than to go against an opponent not interested in taking any prisoners? Just like in 2011, the Cyclones are going from a winning high into the meat grinder at Norman. … Continue reading

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Nov 02

Texas toppled

With a 24-0 SHUTOUT of the Longhorns, ISU has beaten Texas in Big 12 play more than Nebraska has. ISU also has a better winning percentage than Nebraska against Texas since 1996, and is the first unranked team to shut … Continue reading

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Oct 30

Texas teams continue avoiding Ames in November

Texas plays at Iowa State tomorrow night, and the Cyclones have revenge for 2013 on their minds. It is the latest date in the calendar that the Longhorns have played in Ames, and as with Oct. 30, 1999, it took … Continue reading

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Oct 26

North Tama football’s worst season in a century

Friday was like this. Since 1921, when football was reinstated at Traer High School after the national period of safety concerns, only one team had gone winless in a season. The 1939 team went 0-8. This year, the Redhawks finished … Continue reading

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Oct 16

Two gamecast firsts for ISU-TCU

Saturday’s game will have two firsts for Iowa State, not counting the possibility of the Jack Trice Stadium scoreboards registering triple digits for the visiting Horned Frogs.* The game will start at 6 on ESPN2. Iowa State has never been … Continue reading

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Oct 02

The new view from Section O

On November 18, 2011, I got a discounted ticket for the Iowa State-Oklahoma State game, with no expectation of a close matchup. I was proven very, very wrong. It turned out to be the high point of the Paul Rhoads era. … Continue reading

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Sep 21

A short meditation on football season so far

Missing a game-winning field goal* as time expires MERE MINUTES after Iowa made a game-winning field goal as time expires, and then losing in double overtime, is one of the most Iowa State football things ever and challenges the UAB … Continue reading

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Sep 16

DigitalTown appropriating Iowa schools’ names for profit

In retrospect, it’s an obvious strategy: Grab the domain names for every school district in Iowa, using the full name; follow that with the school nickname; make it a dot-com, since most official school district websites end in .k12.ia.us; and … Continue reading

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Sep 13

Black and Gold 2, Red 0

Wapsie Valley 42, North Tama 0; Iowa 31, Iowa State 17. If ISU plays the rest of the season as listlessly as they did in the second half, Paul Rhoads will be out of a job.

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