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Time to Replace the Replacements

Tweet Congratulations NFL, you have reached the “sports entertainment level”.  After locking out your officials because of salary issues you decided to hire replacement officials to work the games that bring in billions of dollars every year.  I’m sure you did this as a way to show the regular officials that they are not needed

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It’s Been a Good Ride

Tweet A couple of years ago I made a decision that I thought I would stick with.  As with other life changes I found the change very difficult and didn’t go through with it.  I stuck, maybe struggled is the better term, around a couple of years and was hoping I made the right decision.

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Hawkeye Hits – Bowl Week

Tweet Insight Bowl preparations have begun in Tempe, Arizona for the Iowa Hawkeye football team. The team left Iowa and arrived in Arizona last Thursday (December 22) to start practicing for their upcoming game against Oklahoma. Yesterday head coach Kirk Ferentz met with the media and will do so again on Thursday.

Boring Is As Boring Does

Tweet Today was senior day for the Iowa Hawkeyes as they looked to close out the 2011 home football season with a perfect 7-0 home record.  Too bad a very good Michigan State team stood in their way.  After having their undefeated season ruined in Iowa City a year ago Michigan State came in wanting

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Iowa Beats Northwestern

Tweet The Iowa Hawkeyes got their first 2011 Big Ten Football victory 41-31 over the Northwestern Wildcats in Iowa City on Saturday night.  The game was the 2nd annual “Black and Gold Spirit Game” and the Kinnick faithful did not disappoint, stripping the stadium in black and gold.  There were also 2 card stunts during

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At a Loss

Tweet On Saturday September 10, 2011 control of the state of Iowa shifted hands.  The Cyclones, from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, defeated the incumbent Hawkeyes, from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, 44-41 in the 3rd over time at Jack Trice Stadium on the campus of Iowa State.  The Hawkeyes had

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PSD Top 25 Poll 2011 – Week 1

Tweet This year I am participating in the blogger poll for plannedsickdays.com (a Hawkeye blog, you can view this week’s poll here). After each week I will post my top 25 here so that you can see how I voted. Here is this week’s ranking:

The Journey Begins

Tweet Iowa opened it’s 2011 football season on Saturday by beating up on the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles 34-7.  The weather provided some challenges through out the game as rain poured down for close to the entire first half (I knew we were in for a wet day when the hand dryer in the Kinnick

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Tennessee Tech Preview

Tweet The 2011 Iowa Hawkeyes take the field this weekend against the Golden Eagles from Tennessee Tech (of the Football Championship Subdivision, same level that UNI plays).  This is what has become the typical “here’s a ton of money for you to come lose to us” game.  Most of the larger college football programs start

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