Iowa places volleyball coach Bond Shymansky on administrative leave

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/...nd-shymansky-on-administrative-leave-20190520

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2836541-ranking-the-25-best-moves-of-the-2019-nfl-offseason

Butler and Montgomery gain mention in this list.

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/top-25-college-football-rankings-2019

Also: An important note on Athlon's top 25 for 2019: This is not a preseason ranking of teams going into the season. Instead, this ranking takes into account where we project teams to finish after the national championship in January.

24. Iowa State

Iowa State is on the rise under coach Matt Campbell. The Cyclones are coming off back-to-back winning records in Big 12 play for the first time in program history, and this is the first time Iowa State has been projected by Athlon Sports to finish in the top 25. Running back David Montgomery and receiver Hakeem Butler left big shoes to fill in Ames after leaving early for the NFL Draft. However, the news wasn't all bad for the offense this offseason. Tom Manning returned to Ames from the NFL to call the plays, and quarterback Brock Purdy is one of the Big 12's rising stars. As a freshman in 2018, Purdy went 6-2 as the starter and threw for 2,250 yards and 16 touchdowns. The offensive line has room to improve but brings back all five starters from last season. Replacing Montgomery might be more of a committee approach, while Deshaunte Jones, Tarique Milton and transfer La'Michael Pettway lead the way at receiver. Iowa State led the Big 12 in run defense and held opposing offenses to just 22.9 points a game (also best in the conference). This unit boasts a strong front seven, anchored by end JaQuan Bailey and nose guard Ray Lima up front, with Marcel Spears and Mike Rose providing support at linebacker. The biggest concern for coordinator Jon Heacock rests at cornerback in finding a replacement for standout Brian Peavy and D'Andre Payne.

Others of note:
18. Iowa
11. Texas
6. Oklahoma

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Kellis Robinett Retweeted Grant Rohach

Former Iowa State QB. Played for Courtney Messingham. Now he's an offensive graduate assistant for the Wildcats.

Grant Rohach‏ @grantrohach
Excited to be a part of the @KStateFB staff!

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Blum and I will launch season whatever of the Williams/Blum Summer Podcast Series later this week and are looking for topics you guys want us to tackle. Any suggestions?

The game is 2 and half years away; however, this will be my first big trip away from my newborn son, so i'm already excited about it. Vegas itself will be a blast and this will provide Cyclone fans a more affordable road trip than a lot of the basketball tournaments. Wondering if people are already pumped and planning for this, and if so what to expect from a tailgating perspective. We are planning our guys trip for this weekend and besides the game will be doing:

Poker tourney
Hash House a Go Go
Saw Escape Room
Twilight Zone Mini Golf
Downtown

SIAP, but Will Clyburn’s CSKA Moscow won the Euroleague (top competition after the NBA) and Will was named MVP of the Final Four. Congrats Will!

https://www.euroleague.net/final-fo...a5w3t/final-four-mvp-will-clyburn-cska-moscow

CBS Sports ranked the head coaches of all 65 Power 5football schools (albeit in two separate articles). I was mildly surprised to find that they’d voted Matt Campbell in the Top 25–at #19! I was figuring they’d see him in the 30-35 range.

The times, they are a’changin’ in Ames, Iowa!

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ge-football-coaches-entering-the-2019-season/

Went to see the movie last night with wife and daughter and liked, but not impressed. I won't give anything away; but not close to Bohemian Rhapsody, as my wife said.

Defeated Purdue (6-1), South Dakota State (7-2), and Purdue again (5-3) to win the regional in Ames.

The final four teams playing in Fort Collins next weekend:
Iowa State
UT-Arlington
Liberty
Nevada or Loyola Marymount

Article in Omaha newspaper. he may be mayor of Ames , but he is a true Nebraskan at heart WOW

I live in eastern Iowa, near Iowa City. My neighbor, who is a friend, is a big Hawkeye fan. He does not donate money to the university but does attend games. He has met several of the current (and recently graduated) players over the past few years and has ultimately ended up having them over to his house numerous times. When they come over, he and his wife always give them food and beer.

Is he considered a booster if he doesnt donate $ to the university? Does it matter? It seems like it would be an NCAA violation to me. Otherwise would be ridiculously easy (easier) to circumvent all rules about giving players benefits.

tldr: I think my Hawkeye neighbor is unintentionally committing NCAA violations

Awful stuff. Went on for 2 decades with no action. Reminds me of the Michigan State scandal.

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This is one tough sumbitch!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...ocket-knife-to-save-himself-from-grain-auger/

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Seems Iowa FB twitter is down too.

Does anyone have experience with board and train for their dog? If so, what are your opinions?

We adopted a male lab mix from the local rescue in February. We think he may have been a stray from South Carolina/Georgia. He's a year old. We just had his balls chopped off.

He is insane. We've tried everything to get him to behave better. We recently met with a dog behavior specialist and nothing seems to be working.

I don't quite understand why simple bbcode tables aren't allowed on CF. I found a very old message from Jeremy in which he says it is for security reasons, that bbcode tables would necessitate allowing HTML in messages, and I don't understand that. Here is a simple bbcode table:


No HTML that I can see.

For those that don’t watch a good amount of basketball, Evans is a solid player.
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Kansas City Missouri DE Johnny Wilson who is a Top Priority for CMC and Staff got a CB for The Good Guys from Steve Wiltfong on the 14th. He also jumped 74 Spots in the National Ranking. This plus Gunnerson ready to take his Official to Ames here soon you have to love our chances with the 2 very talented DE Prospects.
https://247sports.com/player/johnny-wilson-46055177/

That happened quickly:
http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...8354/memphis-earns-no-1-class-recruit-achiuwa
https://247sports.com/college/memphis/Season/2019-Basketball/Commits/

There hasn't been a good personal finance thread in awhile so I thought I'd start one. There's a whole host of good apps and web sites out there to manage your money, but to this day I still use my own spreadsheet to do the job? Anyone else do the same?

I think there are a few reasons why I continue to do this even though it is almost certainly more work.

1. Apps come and go and I'm hesitant to invest time to learn a new system that could be shut down or try to upsell me on something I don't want.
2. There's a "black box" quality to a lot of these web sites where you plug numbers in and it returns results to you, but the assumptions or methodologies are hard to decipher. I want to see how they get from Point A to Point B, but often that is proprietary.
   
3. Entering my own data, building my own budget, etc. forces me to engage with it in a way that a web site wouldn't.
4. It's free; I pay a modest sum for a few version of Office every few years but that's it.

There are a lot of decent finance templates out on the web too, but I've mostly just built my own. I've had a day-to-day financial management spreadsheet for 20+ years, but more recently I've built a college savings calculator/manager and I'm working on a retirement sheet.

Ideas/tips/tricks welcome.

Someone bought a lottery ticket that's now worth 2 million dollars in Urbandale.

Which of you was it?