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Category Archives: Sports
Oct
30
The Monster Patch
This one has been in the works for a while. A game against Oklahoma State on Halloween night is about the ONLY time it is acceptable for Iowa State to wear all-black. With the Brewers winning the World Series, the … Continue reading
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Sep
05
Football? I guess?
This is painfully, horribly accurate. I couldn’t name one if I tried. The Athletic expects ISU to go 0-fer in conference and lose to Iowa. [deep, exasperated sigh] (I’m a bit disappointed in SEC Shorts’ embrace of AI for its … Continue reading
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Jul
20
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton’s longest day
It’s championship or bust for Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton — not only in softball, but for all but one of its sports teams, period. The Spartans are a 1-seed playing in Fort Dodge today at noon. Seven hours later, in Audubon, the … Continue reading
Mar
03
Mandated March spring break a possibility
My Substack “sports grab bag” a month ago started with the re-emergence of the “Iowa High School Sports History” website and also mentioned a good bill in the Legislature (mandating acceptance of cash for event admissions) and a very bad … Continue reading
Dec
29
The Cereal Bowl
If you buy three boxes of Chex (at once) by New Year’s Eve, you can get a Peanuts Holiday Tin! What can you do with all that Chex? Make Chex Mix for New Year’s Day! Or have many days’ worth … Continue reading
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Dec
08
How about those Hoosiers?
If I ever update my Iowa State-vs.-Oklahoma football page, the first graphic will need a fix after all. As for the rest of the weekend’s events, I might have more about that on my Substack later. Might.
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Dec
05
A map of 2025 8-man football forfeits
High school football season has been over for a couple of weeks, but the issues created by the multiple forfeits is going to come up again. I did enjoy making the map, though. More than half of the teams in … Continue reading
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Nov
26
Public vs. private, times six
All but one of the seven Iowa high school football championship games pitted a public school against a private school. The outlier was Class A, MMCRU vs. St. Ansgar. (Semi-ironic, no?) That is more public vs. private finals in football … Continue reading
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Nov
03
Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s third bond vote in four years
Here we go again. This time, unlike last year’s vote, Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s superintendent made clear that there is a “stopping point” on this bond. It’s down to doing nothing but replacing the classrooms currently in the oldest building, and the auditorium … Continue reading
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Aug
22
And away we go (but not me)
(because someone jumped on the last two weeks of August before I even had a chance to look) (I wanted to see the Belfast Titanic museum, sigh) God bless you and your straight-outta-2000 website with football games time-coded to God’s … Continue reading
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