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September 13, 2008

It’s a good thing the Iowa Hawkeyes suck or the annual Iowa-Iowa State grudge match would have been a monumental blowout. The Cyclones can’t block, can’t tackle, heck they can barely get th eplay called from the sideline. Three chances the alma mater had in the red zone, and all they came away with was […]

September 7, 2007

Last week in his debut as Iowa State head football coach, Gene Chizik suffered an ignoble defeat against Kent State. Tomorrow the Cyclones play UNI and the Des Moines Register ran a story today about why the Panthers winning the game would not be considered an upset.
Despite what the billboards say and what Jamie […]

August 31, 2007

What in the name of Johnny Majors is going on out there? Here I was all prepared to write some beautiful prose about the glorious debut of the Gene Chizik era at Iowa State and then the Cyclones had to go and lose . . . to Kent State. Now, the Golden Flashes might be […]

November 28, 2006

The Packer fan in me is still horribly depressed after that huge, embarrassing loss to the Seahawks last night, but the Cyclone fan in me is terribly impressed, surprised and suddenly quite optimistic about the future now that Iowa State has hired Gene Chizik as head football coach.
This has to be the biggest coup in […]