Definition of off topic here, but my dad died 17 years ago today. I’m only 21 so I’m not overly effected, but I want to get my mom something and I’m not sure what. Do I go with flowers? If so, which kind? Something else? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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IOWA STATE (6-3, 0-0 BIG 12)
VS. IOWA (7-3, 1-1 BIG TEN)
THURSDAY, DEC. 12 | 7 P.M. CST
AMES, IOWA | HILTON COLISEUM (14,384)


Radio: Cyclone Radio Network
Talent: John Walters (pxp); Eric Heft (analyst)
TV: ESPN2
Talent: Jason Benetti (pxp); Dan Dakich (analyst)

My gamer from Hilton on Ines Nezerwa's first double-double, Iowa's bench, and an emotional night for the Fennelly family.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2019/12/wbb-hawkeyes-drop-cyclones-on-emotional-night-in-hilton-coliseum/

What makes a sound like “plop?” A pile of excrement landing on the floor. That’s about what our offensive abilities sounded like tonight. By far one of the poorest displays of basketball I’ve seen in quite sometime. I wish uncoils blame it on Boxter being in the house, but that would be too cruel.

That offensive exhibition tonight was one of the worst I’ve seen since 10-15 years ago. No movement at all. Two leading scorers that can’t find a shot and when they do they put up bricks. You can’t win shooting that poorly. 20% from three? Really? The big diff beyond our offensive misfortunes was their posts. They bullied their way around and when they weren’t fouling us we were letting them get the ball within the charge circle for easy points. I swear their two posts had 27 fouls between the two of them.

sigh...what a night to be so ordinary. This is four straight for the Bluderettes over the sisters. This has never happened during Fennelly’s tenure.

mid it weren’t for Nez and Joens this would have been much worse. Even Joens missed a bunch of bunny layups, but man that woman was hustling. Perhaps that’s why the others stood around so much...just to watch her?

ok, time to wash our mouths out and move on. We need to keep Bill’s family in our thoughts as he lost his dad this morning. Many coaches would turn the game over to assistants. Not Bill. Send some good thoughts his way and come out and support our women when they face another NCAA tourney team on Sunday.

Wondering if anyone has 4 extra bracelets for Dec 22nd MBB game. Have not bought before but willing to pay fair market value. Text 515-368-0037 if have any to spare.

Gone for the bowl game. Distraction?

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ame-offensive-coordinator-chip-long-part-ways

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Thoughts?

Here's the full interviews from this week.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2019/12/cftv-media-availability-with-kevin-dresser-and-todd-small/

Does anyone know what happened to the halftime shows? We used to have one every game. For the past season or two it seems like we only have about 3 a season. I assume we are saving the money and tacking it on to Campbell's salary?

Also while I'm here, does anyone know what the deal is with the forest we are growing on the west side of Jack Trice? The grass is about 6 feet long on the hills behind the concessions. It looks pretty awful. I imagine the Reimans had that included in the contract when they donated the money for the SEZ?

https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/22688

The MatBoss Podcast Episode 43: Brent Metcalf
Chad Dennis, MatBoss
12/11/2019
Brent Metcalf with Alex Mackall at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com)

Iowa State assistant coach, multiple-time U.S. world team member and two-time NCAA champion Brent Metcalf joins The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis for Episode 43.

Metcalf talks about ISU's weekend in Las Vegas, what an athlete like David Carr means to the program, recruiting and the impact of social media and video on coaching as well as the upcoming dual with Chattanooga, one of Dennis' favorite subjects.



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I ordered my full allotment of tickets as a Cyclone Club Captains level donor. Looks like we aren't going to use all of them. Willing to sell them to Fanatics at my cost.

For ISU to win Thursday night? Assuming your payment guaranteed the result.
In this scenario you get to watch the game oblivious that you paid for the result.
I don't want to ruin the experience.

Go.

Free to a good Cyclone Fan. Section 133 Row 14

Iowa at ISU and most other games. We live out of state an make it back infrequently.

I have 4 tickets, 2 in the corner and 2 staggered in sect 230. Will to trade + cash. Will also entertain buying outright and selling my current tickets.
Please and Thank you,
Col. Forbin

Looking for 2 Johnny's wrist bands for tomorrow's game

Selling two for Iowa vs Iowa State

Sec 230 (Sideline, upper), Row 15 -- $80/ticket obo + gold level parking pass

Can meet in Ames or Des Moines area, or transfer electronically if you don't need the parking pass.

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A friend of mine showed me this from a youth wrestling match.

Wow.

I believe Austin Scranton the boy who wrestles in blue is not only a youth state champion but also national champion. He has only lost a handful of times in his life. He takes the L here.

There is a lot of negativity in the world. This shows there is humanity.

Hi guys. Looking forward to the bowl game and while I know that all of the ND sites will have breakdowns of the matchups, I wanted to go right to the source to see what ND is going to be facing.

What do Cyclone fans see as the strengths and weaknesses of your team? What position groups concern you?

For Notre Dame, the defense has played really well for most of the season. They have had slow starts here and there, but Clark Lea’s (DC) forte is making in-game adjustments and shutting down opposing offenses as the game progresses. ND had a good pass rush, which was great until the lost their backup WDE (Daelin Hayes) and then their starting WDE (Julian Okwara). The LBs are really good and the secondary is good as well, even though the CBs are generally on the small side and can be picked on.

On offense, NDs OL has a load of talent but underachieves. They really struggle to run the ball at times, and the RBs are very average, so ND resorts to some jet sweeps and designed QB runs to loosen things up. The RG and RT are both backups pressed into service because the starters are out with season ending injuries. The WRs are a solid group, with Chase Claypool being a bigger receiver and a beast. Braden Lenzy has elite speed and is generally the guy that the jet sweeps go to. Cole Kmet is their TE, and they go to him a ton. He’s in the discussion for best TE in the country.

I mentioned in another thread that Ian Book gets a lot of press, but don’t let that fool you. He pads his stats against weak opposition and has a tendency to disappear against good competition. He’s been getting better, but gets happy feet and will bolt from the pocket needlessly. If Iowa State can get any kind of pressure on him, ND’s offense may struggle in a big way.

For fans of the show it returns January 19th.

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For all of you young pups. Some ISU history on one of our greatest all-time hoopsters.

THE BASKETBALL LEGEND

An article from The Sporting News confirms this account, saying, “One spectacular play by Don Smith might have motivated Coach Henry Iba of Oklahoma State into predicting that the basketball rules makers would outlaw the dunk shot and eventually raise the basket.”

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First and foremost, a few links:
Our official question submissions thread: https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/th...n-weekly-mailbag-questions-submission.251174/

Link to last five mailbags (if bored and need some reading material):
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/th...-information-weekly-mailbag-11-3-2019.252386/
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/th...information-weekly-mailbag-11-13-2019.252633/
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/th...information-weekly-mailbag-11-20-2019.252903/
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/official-insider-information-weekly-mailbag-11-27-2019.253132/
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/th...information-weekly-mailbag-12-04-2019.253299/

Insider Information Weekly Mailbag 12-11-2019
Brought to you by Preparation H, the official sponsor of Kansas State athletics.

With special guest Fitzy!

@CycloneRulzzz getting us started: Damn one just came to mind. For next week's mailbag. This past week we saw a guy get flagged by celebrating a TD by acting like a dog taking a leak. Say you score a touchdown and are going to celebrate in a way that will draw a flag. What's your unsportsmanlike celebration?
Fitzy: I would want to bring back the “dunking the basketball over the crossbar” celebration, which was always awesome until the NFL decided it hated fun and banned it. My goal would be to one-up Jimmy Graham and bring the whole thing down.
Pants: Dry humping the goal post. I actually enjoyed the dog peeing celebration and I thought it was some weak BS that it was even flagged.
GTO: If on the road, the “shake and spray” all over the opposing fans near the end zone (I won’t go over the details, but you can figure it out). At home, probably something classier. Like squatting down and pretending the ball is a turd that just came out of me. In all honesty, I would never do such things, but the hypothetical was posted so I had to answer.

@ImJustKCClone asks: Reading through these & thought of a question, but it's waaaay past the deadline. However, if I don't write it down I won't remember it in an hour due to my advanced case of CRS. So, for next week:
Favorite movie for each of these sports, and why it's the best:
1 football
2 basketball
3 baseball
4 wrestling
5 track
6 tennis
7 golf
Edit - also, in your answer rank the sport movies by preference (ie, you don't have to keep them in this order)
Pants: Football-The Program. Best college football movie ever. And similar to Blue Chips in style. (3.)
Basketball-Blue Chips-Very accurate depiction of recruiting in college athletics. (5.)
Baseball-Bull Durham-Just a fantastic movie with a killer cast. (4.)
Wrestling-The Wrestler-Apparently some people give it crap, but I thought it was a really good movie? (6.)
Track-There are track movies?
Tennis-The Cutting Edge. They probably were at a tennis court at some point. (2.)
Golf-Tin Cup. The best Kevin Costner sports film. No, I am not forgetting any baseball related movies he did when I say that. (1.)
GTO: I’ll preface it by saying that I like most sports movies as comedies.
3 football - The Waterboy - back when Adam Sandler was funny.
1 basketball - Above the Rim, White Men Can’t Jump, or Teen Wolf (does that one count?).
2 baseball - Bad News Bears (the remake with Billy Bob Thornton), The Benchwarmers, The Naked Gun (Reggie Jackson, Enrico Palazzo, and Leslie Nielsen taking over for the umpire made for a great baseball game), or Major League 1 & 2.
6 wrestling - Nacho Libre.
7 track - that Arnold classic: The Running Man (pretty sure that doesn’t count but whatever).
5 tennis - Strangers on a Train - I’m a big Hitchcock fan, so this is a no-brainer for me.
4 golf - Happy Gilmore or Tin Cup are the only two I can think of.
Fitzy:
1. Golf - The Greatest Game Ever Played. It’s a heartstring tugger and golf is my favorite sport to play.
2. Basketball - Space Jam. Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes. Say no more.
3. Baseball - The Sandlot. The Sandlot has gotten even better with age thanks to the life of some of its memeable moments (FOR-EV-ER, you’re killing me Smalls!).
4. Football - The Longest Yard. I like the Burt Reynolds and Adam Sandler versions so take your pick.
5. Hockey - Miracle. USA, USA, USA!
6. Wrestling - Warrior. Yeah, it’s technically MMA, but I can’t think of an actual movie I like about traditional wrestling.
7. Track & Tennis - 404 Error.

@GTO asks: Whar boxing?
@coolerifyoudid backed me up: KC, you beat me to it. Knowing GTO's a boxing fan, I was going to ask him to rate his top 3 boxing movies. I can think of a number of solid boxing movies before I can think of a tennis movie (good or bad). I can even come up with a good movie for soccer, dodgeball and chess before tennis.
GTO: Favorite boxing movies, in order: 1. Undisputed, 2. Rocky, 3a. Hard Times 3b. Real Steel. HM: Cinderella Man. Guilty Pleasure: Gladiator (the one starring Cuba Gooding Jr and Brian Dennehy).
Fitzy: I’d forgotten about Real Steel, so thanks for reminding me that movie existed.
Pants: Anyone remember Mike Tyson’s Punch Out? That game was my jam.
GTO: Coolest character in that game was Mr. Sandman. Most annoying - Bald Bull.

Link:

https://cyclonefanatic.com/podcasts/stanz-fitz-episode-91/

Here are links to some videos I tweeted.
I’ll have full interviews later up on the site when I’m off work!

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