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Category Archives: Sports
Oct
04
The sixth seal has been opened
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig … Continue reading
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Sep
29
The first time*
There’s going to be a first this week for Iowa State football: A Saturday night game on ABC with a nationwide audience. All it took was a plague and sidelining 40% of power-conference football teams to make it happen. Now, there … Continue reading
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Sep
28
The last time
It’s Oklahoma week (as of the time of this post, anyway), meaning it’s that time of year again: Time to contemplate man’s and woman’s struggle against an indifferent universe, a story of futility punctuated by just enough hope for the … Continue reading
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Sep
23
North Tama needs a Homecoming date
Lynnville-Sully has switched to virtual learning because of a substantial number of quarantined students (story: Newton Daily News). That means all L-S activities are immediately cancelled, including a district football game Friday night at North Tama. If you know of … Continue reading
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Sep
15
Some positive sports news
The Carleton Effect: How Chatham, Ontario’s Bridget Carleton has helped turn the Minnesota Lynx offence around (via NBA Canada by way of Cyclone Fanatic) Carleton has only played in 22 games, but she’s already the highest-scoring former Cyclone in WNBA … Continue reading
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Sep
10
Football (still)(*)(?)(*)
This weekend, the ISU football team is slated to play, a slate that is in easily erasable chalk this year. But instead of at the Fighting Ferentzes, it’s home vs. the don’t-call-them-ULaLa Louisiana (-Lafayette) Ragin’ Cajuns. Like I did for … Continue reading
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Aug
28
Football(?)(*)(?)
There is to be football in Traer tonight. After Iowa became the first state to complete high school seasons in any sport (despite both the North Tama softball and baseball teams unable to say the same), Iowa will be one … Continue reading
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Jul
31
The private bracket and the not-quite-public bracket
For the second time in two school years, 2020-related asterisks notwithstanding, a state tournament for Iowa’s smallest class has involved five private schools. An entire side in the Class 1A baseball tournament was a private playoff, with Mason City Newman … Continue reading
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Jun
16
SPORTS
Iowa, the only state with the crazy notion of playing summer sports in summer, gets to be the first state with high school sports reactivated this week. Baseball and softball games started statewide yesterday, but North Tama starts this evening, … Continue reading
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May
24
Speaking of plagues spreading across the land
MLB traditionalists won’t like it, but the universal DH is coming The designated hitter rule is coming to the National League for the first time this year. It will vanish again in 2021 in the NL, with the division and league schedules … Continue reading
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