I normally miss the first couple weeks of Yahoo’s College Football Pick’em. I managed to get signed up in time this year. I’m TalkHawkeyes. Feel free to track me throughout the year and make fun of how poorly I do.
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5 more wakeups until the season opener at Kinnick Stadium. The beginning of the Iowa Hawkeye football season is always a special time for me.
I travel about 3 1/2 hours each way to watch the games, so I better be enjoying each and every game. And, that better include the trip along the way. I [...]
I guess I don’t really hate them. But, I am pretty upset with the University of Missouri right now.
In 8 days, Iowa will open the season in the newly renovated stadium with a sold out crowd desperate to watch some football. The team will run onto the field. Elect to receive and end up scoring [...]
September 11, 2001 was a terrible day. I, along with most other people, was very shaken. Everybody talks about the big things that happened as a result of 9/11; rescue efforts in New York, changes in the way we are screened before boarding an airplane, war in Afghanistan just to name a few.
There [...]
I was thinking about how much I want the college football season to start the other day and just remembering fun moments from the early part of past seasons. The memory that stands out the most is the post game interview after Drew Tate’s first game as a starter two seasons ago.
He had to [...]
Rhett Bomar and J.D. Quinn will not play this season for Oklahoma. It is reported that Bomar filed his taxes claiming he had made up to $18,000 for 40-hour work weeks but had only been working 5 hours a week. Assuming he was there every week, that would amount to just over $69/hour.
According [...]