Category Archives: Sports & Games
What kind of animals are we raising?
Bullying investigated after athlete injured, DM Register 11/4. ”She said that about two weeks ago, teammates ‘kept hitting (Kacey Strough) on the head with a football’. He allegedly was struck multiple times and the high school freshman did complain about bullying to … Continue reading
Why does the Mayor of Loserville make so much money?
Nobody is saying you have to win every game, but why pay Ferentz as if he did? Mediocrity comes a lot cheaper than $4.5 million a year. That’s the point. This is Iowa, we don’t have world class football, so why … Continue reading
“Hawkeyes’ offensive woes have ’07 feel”
Today’s Register article by Randy Peterson, detailing just how bad the Hawkeyes are, causes me to ask the question once again, WHY is Ferentz the highest paid coach in the Big 10??? Good grief, if you can’t even be competitive … Continue reading
Synchronized diving???
Good grief NBC, give me a break. Devoting prime time television coverage to the dumbest sport since that whole ribbon and ball thing in gymnastics?? Why two divers? Why not four? Why not synchronized hammer throw? Synchronized balance beam? This … Continue reading
I could listen to ‘Soundoff’, if it wasn’t for Jon Miller
Like a lot of young twits, Jon Miller on WHO radio’s sports show Soundoff, thinks he has to “cover” for the 107-year-old Jim Zabel. Miller continually talks over and interrupts Zabel. Trust me Miller, I bet half the audience would … Continue reading
Joe Paterno believed the hype
Paterno started to believe the hype. He thought he really was a legend. Nope. Way past his prime, he insisted on hobbling the Penn State program solely for his own ego. His purpose was supposed to be to build the … Continue reading
In praise of Fuzzy Yellow Balls
As someone who has enjoyed tennis since about age 12, during the heyday years of Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert, and the Wilson T-3000 racquet, I am so glad to have stumbled upon the instructional site of Will Hamilton, Fuzzy Yellow … Continue reading
Hawkeyes to play on dirt this fall
“I hear the Hawkeyes are going to play their football games on dirt this fall.Their players have smoked all the grass and snorted all the white lines.” – Ames Guy Another Ames guy.
Favre is a lot like…
"The Metrodome and Favre are a lot alike, both are too old and collapse too easily." – Ames Guy
