while I don’t find much fault with the article, the rationale that Baylor's loss of Brewer was the only thing affecting last year's outcome is narrow at best. Even the comments section illustrates their lack of big picture awareness. Somehow our loss of Montgomery and his potential impact on the game gets overlooked to help them feel better about themselves. Will this be a close game...more than likely.

https://www.ourdailybears.com/2019/...lor-football-opponent-quick-hitter-iowa-state

The great 1984-85 ISU men's basketball team was honored at Friday's hoops reunion. Jeff Grayer was back — and spoke eloquently about his friend, the late, great Barry Stevens. https://cyclonefanatic.com/2019/08/...984-84-team-honored-at-cyclone-hoops-reunion/

Bye weeks and trap games... any possible advantages? Both ISU and OU have a bye before the game in Norman.

https://mk0fbschedulesg7lec3.kinsta...loads/2019/05/2019-big-12-helmet-schedule.pdf

The ISU Alumni Club of Denver is hosting a golf outing on August 24th and we need a minute of your time. A great local business has offered to sponsor based on the number of "likes" they get to their FaceBook page in the next week. We are hoping to raise money for for a scholarship fund that has been started, and would like to raffle off the prize we get from the Ace Hardware in Denver. Ideally we are hoping to get a nice Yeti Cooler, or a grill.

The Ace Hardware on the Fax is a great store, but we need the help of the Cyclonefanatics.

Please consider going to the link below and "like" the company's page.

https://www.facebook.com/aceonthefax/

If you live in Colorado and need more info on the golf outing, send me a note.

Thank you in advance! Go Cyclones!

I upgraded to B4 this year, but I have a few friends that also jumped in to get G7 passes. I'm looking to trade away my B4 pass on a game by game basis to get into G7 . Preferably not to anyone looking to take the upgrade and sell the pass.

I'm not looking for the entire season in case we run into the cluster that was last year when G7 kept getting closed, or in case my out of town friends can't make it back.

The Abstract from Journal of Medical Ethics concludes Transwomen, with the Int Olympic Org guidelines of permissible Testosterone levels (<10 nmol / liter), have an unfair advantage and suggest male / female categories be reconsidered.
We are 1-yr away from the Olympics in Tokyo and I'm not confident the IOC & Science will have an agreeable level of permissible Testosterone levels by then, but something has to be in place and some standard must be adopted, realizing the science & techniques will change with time.

PS: I didn't want direct quotes for concern about their copyright and I didn't read article because it costs $37 for a pdf. But I feel this topic is going to be very controversial and all sport (High School + College) probably will depend on the IOC + Science to initiate standards and categories.

https://jme.bmj.com/content/45/6/395

Need parking pass, just had kidney transplant and can't walk far.

Hey everyone.... We have a special offer that just became available for the OU game. See below:



UPDATE! Our OU tickets will now be located in Section 35 which is lower-level, south end-zone, sideline. This is a special offer that the OU box office has made available to us but there are a limited number of seats and for a limited time. Please order your tickets ASAP. Once they are gone we will revert to the original seating option outlined below.

The price for these tickets is now $85! www.dfwcyclones.org/store

If you've already purchased tickets, your tickets will be located in Section 35.. you just got a really good deal and we will take a small loss on your tickets for the chance to get this much improved seating.

Original Option:

We have coordinated with the OU box office to purchase group rate tickets in the North End Zone (Sections 19-22) for $75.

As in years past, we are planning a "Bring Your Own Tailgate" event at the Lloyd Noble Center parking lot. Gametime is currently TBD so details about our tailgate and other pregame activities will be announced later.

All presale ticket deadlines are August 4th at Midnight.

Planning a business trip to Singapore and KL Spring 2020. Will be adding a 2-3 vacation days in each location. Looking for suggestions/must dos, besides Petronas Tower bridge.

Heads up to you peeps who come to Minnesota for Twins games, Mall of America or lakes vacation. New hands free law took effect yesterday and it's being enforced vigorously. You might get away with a warning with your out of state plates, maybe not.

You can Bluetooth and such but any GPS use needs to be voice activated/directed. This is much stricter than your Iowa law that mostly just prohibits texting. Basically if you have a phone in your hand you are getting stopped.

More detailed explanation is offered in this linked story:
https://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/2019/04/hands-free-cell-phone-is-now-law-so-how-does-it-work/


BTW, I am militantly supportive of this.

Since it appears @Angie isn't around to post a Friday OT, I took it upon myself to open one.

Here's the question: Have you ever been watching a movie or TV show and thought, "That character is me." Either because of the physical resemblance, or manner of speaking, or whatever.

I always saw myself in Charles Haid's portrayal of Renko in Hill Street Blues. Quirky, somewhat impatient, sometimes full of $hit.

Tell us who you are!

538 with a cool little analysis of the career of Sage Rosenfels.

Really.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/sage-rosenfels-was-the-tom-brady-of-the-nfl-preseason/

I'm back and so is football.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2019/08/stanz-observations-from-iowa-states-first-fall-camp-practice/

I've haven't read through every thread so I apologize if I'm bringing up a topic already discussed. I went through a lot of content from media day yesterday and didn't come across where Re-al was discussed. Any news of how they might be trying to figure out ways to get his speed and athleticism on the field this coming season?

TIA

Opps, I should have posted in the Football Forum. Can this be moved?

my daughter has her school permit and drives 1 mile to school and 1 mile back. I bought her a car 8 months ago. I have not had the oil changed since she drives such fee miles. Do I need to have it changed based on how old the oil is or should I just be concerned about the miles she drives it? She has put about 1500 miles on it.

Vote early and often. Iowa State's guy is under 6%.

https://www.vype.com/vype-films-pol...rning-vype-san-antonio-public-school-receiver

Enjoy. Lots in here.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2019/08/williams-emptying-out-my-media-day-notebook/

North Linn Senior has had quite the HS career at 2A North Linn. (Walker, Troy Mills and Coggon make up the Northern part of Linn County.
This guy has the national record for most hits in a baseball career. He owns the state assist record in basketball for the state of Iowa. His North Linn team won the class 2A state basketball title in the Spring and he just pitched a one hit game to get them to the class 2A state baseball final on Saturday. As amazing of an athlete as he is, if you ever heard an interview with him, he's even a better person.

Hey there --

I am 99% sure I am going to drive down to Manhattan for the K-State game in November. I have been to Manhattan but never a game there and am going to be back in Iowa for the holiday, so I figured why not borrow one of my dad's numerous cars and head down.

Questions...

(1.) Best way to acquire tickets?
(2.) Fun things to do in Manhattan before/after?

Thank you very much!

If you're a degenerate like me and craving any sort of football, the Falcons and Broncos are on NBC

We just finished our second training cycle of the Summer and it is a little quiet in Ames for a change.

So I want to catch you up on some things.

First, David Carr will be heading to Estonia this month as part of the Men's Freestyle Junior World Team.

David qualified to represent the U.S. after winning competitions this past spring and early summer. He'll be accompanied on the trip by Nate Carr, associate director of the Cyclone Regional Training Center, and by Derek St. John.

Kyven Gadson, meanwhile, will compete in the Alexander Medved International tournament in Belarus early this month.

We also want to bring you up-to-date on the success of our new 2019 fundraising campaign: The C-RTC Tree.

Thanks to all of our supporters and fans -- like you -- we have increased the number of donors to 315 from 36 when our campaign first began. Every day we add more donors. So far, we have raised a total of nearly $455,000 toward our goal.

The text-a-thon that our coaches and athletes held in Ames last month was a HUGE part of this fundraising success. It brought in $150,000 -- and we had a lot of fun doing it.

We want to extend a big THANK YOU to everyone who has donated so far. The money we've raised will go toward supporting the efforts of our entire program.

Please NOTE that it is not too late to get on our C-RTC Tree. You can check out a video explaining that here.

And you can donate by going here.

Also coming up this month:

August 16th @ 5 p.m. -- Social at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds. The Humboldt organizing committee does these parties right so please join us for what is sure to be a great evening. You can go here to read more about it and to register.

August 21 @ 6 p.m. -- C-RTC Olympic House Happy Hour. We want to THANK all of the local contractors and others who have helped make our new C-RTC Olympic house in Ames a reality. Come out to Cellar 626 (behind Cyclone Liquors in Ames) for a beverage and some snacks on us.

August 26 @ Noon -- 2nd Annual C-RTC Golf Event. At Glen Oaks Country Club in W. Des Moines. This is a great day of golf, plus an amazing dinner and fun program. You can sign up for the golf event by going here.


Thanks and we hope to see you this month.



Coach Dresser

The Hall of Fame game is tonight which ends the off season and officially kicks off the preseason.

Broncos vs Falcons tonight and then next week we'll get a full slate of preseason games. Sure they're meaningless but football is back!!!

We have a group of anywhere from 5-7 couples all the same age (late 30's) that will occasionally get sitters for the kids and go out and try and do something fun. Whether that's renting Kayaks at Seven Oaks, then dinner or dinner then going to Time Out arcade bar for awhile. Definitely not bar hopping like we used to in our 20's. But looking for suggestions on fun things to do as a group for an upcoming group date night? This could be in Ames, Story City, Nevada, Boone, Etc. GIA

Please, only serious suggestions. No 'Key party' comments