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 been Homecoming, 1997 and 2009, Iowa State won.
Despite being in the southwest corner of the intersection of Hickman Road and 63rd Street, this position is actually in Urbandale.
Here’s an interesting tidbit I came across last week.
If you look at the DOT city map of Windsor Heights (PDF), you can see that the shaded area goes right up to 63rd Street (IA 28) but a dashed line is visible beside, not on, Hickman Road (US 6) on the north side.
Turns out there’s a reason for that. The city code’s very, VERY dense description of the boundaries (PDF, page 11) includes this segment, emphasis added:
… thence northerly along the centerline of 63rd Street a distance of 2,260 feet, more or less, to the south right-of-way line of Hickman Road … thence westerly along the south right-of-way line of Hickman Road …
So, technically, if one were to be driving east on Hickman, one would still be in Urbandale. Windsor Heights has no jurisdiction over the road.
The code’s next parenthetical reference tells us when Hickman was upgraded to four lanes, but we need a couple rest stops to get through it:
(the location of which line was established pursuant to a Joint Public Improvement Agreement dated May 1, 1969, between the Iowa State Highway Commission and the City of Windsor Heights, Iowa, identified as No. 68-P-175 in connection with Polk County Project No. U-6-4(4)-40-77, which agreement is recorded in the office of the Polk County Recorder in Book 4027, commencing at Page 601, as amended by Amendment to Joint Public Improvement Agreement dated June 16, 1975, between the same parties regarding the same project, which amendment is recorded in the office of the Polk County Recorder in Book 4530, commencing at Page 663)
Woof.
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.
Another Iowa/Midwest business name bites the dust with the conversion of Pamida stores to Shopkos. The Toledo store, one of two retail stores in Tama County, closes today for a week for the conversion to begin. (Toledo Chronicle) Note that the exterior received a new coat of paint after August 12, when this picture was taken, and a temporary “Pamida” banner is just waiting to be cut down.
Nathan Bush has some pictures of the Toledo store taken in the mid-’00s. Notice the older store letters and big sign. He gave the store good marks.
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 that.
This is a very, very stupid thing to do. It doesn’t take that much effort to update those numbers — they have to be maintained for the alphabetical listing and general purposes anyway! — and it’s certainly not a case of running out of space in the page or file. These listings were what I used for the “Where ISU stands” posts. It looks like I’ll have to take the 2011 listings and adjust accordingly, although that does create room for error.
Of note in the abbreviated listings: Kansas is now below .500 all-time after its loss to Kansas State this season, and if Iowa wins six seven games this year the sixth seventh will be its 600th all-time as a program. (If.)
(index to 2004-12 guides here)
EDIT/UPDATE: See Oct. 23 post. The NCAA and Iowa also disagree on an outcome.
KTIV interviews a highway commissioner who says finishing upgrading US 20 to four lanes in western Iowa could take until 2025. Yikes.
(Also of note: KTIV is using the same graphic style as KWWL, including the moving background of the chyrons.)
Numbers to know (Cedar Rapids Gazette):
The Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory counts 24,799 Iowa spans. Of the total, 5,358 are considered structurally deficient, and another 1,320 functionally obsolete.
Iowa has more bridges than California.
A decade after thinking about and shelving the plan, a US 30 bypass of Mount Vernon and Lisbon has again advanced to the public-hearing stage. This year’s meeting will be Oct. 30 (PDF). The map is here (PDF).
With the opening of the Tama-Toledo bypass, the four-way stop at IA 1 is the first stop sign on US 30 east of Boone. It’s also near the end of the four-lane across the central third of the state.
Pac-Man Level 256; the arcade game runs out of memory
Chris Dobel reports seeing a license plate from Linn County beginning with AFR. Just like that, the rollover is here.
Some counties may not have exhausted their Z stacks yet, but given an AF out there, many have them. No telling which has ZZZ or AAA.
In the future, saying the rollover occurred in October 2012 will be good enough and likely the best we’ll get. That means it took about 12 years and nine months, from 1/2/1997 to 9/30/2012, for Iowa to go completely through the alphabet, minus large blocks of letters and certain combinations that were intentionally or accidentally excluded.
How do you pronounce the name of Iowa’s southern neighbor when you’re in that state? The New York Times is looking at the political implications of pronouncing Missour-ee like a Northerner/urban/younger person or Missou-rah like a Southerner/rural/older person.
Another dimension to the question: Now that Missouri is in the SEC, how do you pronounce the name of the team that lost at home to Vanderbilt and got dumptrucked by Alabama?* Is that going to have a wider impact on state linguistics as a whole?
*Am I enjoying that? Immensely.
