Category Archives: Sports

Oct 26

At least we agree on what ISU’s offense is like

Posted on Friday, October 26, 2012, at 10:40 AM by Jeff

On Tuesday*, I decided Saturday’s game was best described as the Stoppable Force (ISU’s offense) vs. the Movable Object (Baylor’s defense). A Baylor blogger thought along the same lines for a game preview, but called Baylor’s D “Immobile” instead of “Movable”. … Continue reading →

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Oct 25

Coverage of NT’s playoff victory

Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2012, at 9:37 PM by Jeff

From KWWL and the Times-Republican. North Tama is now 3-0 all-time against Turkey Valley, the other two wins coming in the late ’90s.

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Oct 23

A correction (of sorts) on Iowa football milestones

Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, at 1:53 PM by Jeff

In finding out the NCAA has drastically abbreviated some statistics for its newest record book (see post 10/20), I came across another case where the NCAA and a university disagree on history. The NCAA says Iowa has 593 all-time wins … Continue reading →

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Oct 22

In the balance

Posted on Monday, October 22, 2012, at 1:00 PM by Jeff

Iowa State is currently 5-5 all-time against Baylor, with subsets of 5-4 in Big 12 play and 3-2 at home. Baylor is, at the moment, one of two teams in the conference without a conference win. Both times Baylor has … Continue reading →

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Oct 21

High school football playoff brackets

Posted on Sunday, October 21, 2012, at 10:07 AM by Jeff

The Class A bracket (PDF) only has four teams with losing records! North Tama gets one of them, 4-5 Turkey Valley. Other classes are on the main IHSAA football page.

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Oct 20

Statistics must now be extrapolated

Posted on Saturday, October 20, 2012, at 10:15 AM by Jeff

The 2012 NCAA Division I-A Record Book (PDF, p. 64-65) no longer lists all-time win-loss records by percentage and victory total for every team. Only the top 50 are given for those two categories, with every team listed alphabetically after … Continue reading →

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Oct 12

Wait, what? (Sport crossover edition)

Posted on Friday, October 12, 2012, at 8:44 PM by Jeff

On the football schedule for Saturday: NAIA: Lindsey Wilson at Campbellsville I knew the former ISU women’s basketball player was tough, but taking on an entire football team singlehandedly? In other news, Lindsey Wilson College is a thing.

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Oct 05

Class distinction

Posted on Friday, October 5, 2012, at 1:56 PM by Jeff

When the IGHSAU said it was creating five classes and using “5A” as the top designation instead of adding “A” for the smallest, I thought there might be the potential of a school designated A for football but 2A for … Continue reading →

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Oct 01

The worst part about the Texas Tech loss

Posted on Monday, October 1, 2012, at 12:50 AM by Jeff

It’s not that Iowa State’s path to a bowl is now much harder, or that there’s another quarterback controversy, or the fear that West Virginia is going to imitate the Nebraska teams of the ’90s and drop 70 points. It’s … Continue reading →

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Sep 29

Bye week blues

Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2012, at 11:05 PM by Jeff

Saturday’s loss to Texas Tech is yet another case of Iowa State being unable to capitalize on a bye week. However, there is a little more to it. Of Iowa State’s seven eight games after bye weeks in the past … Continue reading →

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