Some pretty big news for he upcoming Paris Olympics.

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Thought I'd start a thread for things not ISU team so our general Cyclone season thread doesn't get sidetracked. I know there are a couple of fans that watch outside of our team.

Looking at future opponents.

The Jennie B. Sooners are 6-1 and beat #9 Oregon and Minnesota in a neutral court setting to win a tourney in the Bahamas. Play Mississippi State in the Big 12/SEC thingies on Saturday. Miss State is not ranked. Was just a few years back they were 37-2 and in the champ game against ND. Vic Schaefer leaving and his replacement resigning after just a year seems to have left them as a middling SEC team.

Iowa, after missing three games against quality opponents due to their COVID hiatus, got thumped at Duke last night. They didn't win a single quarter. Clark, a career 41% from three, was 1-13. They play Michigan State at IC on Sunday before coming to Ames. Haven't seen them play but so far they don't seem to be playing even close to their level of last year.

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Let’s help David reach his goals with getting new donors! 500 donors at a $50/month level would generate $300k for the collective per year and 500 donors at the $100/month level would generate $600k per year. Those are the types of numbers we need to really cement ourselves as a top 3 program and jump past Iowa!

I saw Williams had 20 rebounds in 59 minutes as a freshman at LSU. That seems like the perfect addition to our frontcourt.

Tanke appears to be exactly what BF looks for in a shooting guard. She seems to be good enough to push for the starting spot at the 2.

Wilson, being a pure PG may get limited minutes with Ryan returning but getting a year with one of the best to play the position should pay dividends to her future.

All in all they seem to be the exact additions needed to go along with the 7 returning rotational players.

Thought this might be interesting, as there are a lot of things out there that are very useful that people may not know about.

For instance, my neighbor's fence was on it's last legs (I've had a post angled against it and a guy wire attached for well over a year so it won't fall down).

My sister told me they bought fence post anchors when theirs were getting wobbly, so I spent last night installing three of them and they worked great.

Picked some up at Hy Vee yesterday. Thought it had a little PBR vibe/flavor. I was expecting more of a Budweiser taste to appeal to the masses. $26 for two six packs after taxes and deposit.

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Favorite grunge singer. Lane Stayley is my absolute favorite singer ever. Him and Cantrell are the best. Cornell is great but the m not as big as a fan. Who u got?

Like the football twitter thread, so figured I will start one for the wrestling program. Cool video on the freshmen and their go-to takedowns.

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Had some good offers hopefully TJ has something in the works.

I feel like there are quite a few music aficionados on CF and I have even discovered new bands on here. I wanted to start a thread where we could share what we are currently listening to and just talk music.

I couldn't find another thread like this but admittedly I haven't used the search function a whole lot.

I will start. Currently listening through City and Colour's If I Should Go Before You album and am really enjoying it!

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Just announced the bracket. 8 SEC teams get to host.

Big 12 teams that made it in: Texas, OU, Oklahoma St, Baylor & UCF.

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It is my first time doing this. I'm really nervous I am going to screw this up. got any advice?

step 1: be sober

Lots of hype. We have pieces. Conference isn't as top heavy as last year. Same ol adage if we had a decent to good oline

Pretty good field to kick off the season at Kapalula:

Kudos to Woody and Mahoney. They're killing it with these off season interview episodes. Steele Jantz, Money Reynolds and now Charlie Kolar.

I'd love if they got Paul Rhodes on there to reminisce.

Hello all,

I have been following the site for a few years and decided to make an account to pick your brains. I have seen a bunch of posters call others out for not putting threads in the correct forum, so I put this in off-topic.

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on what kind of smoker to get for a first time user? I love the taste of smoked meat and wanted to purchase one and give it a shot. From what I have seen online a good one for a beginner is a Weber Smokey Mountain 18'. Any information would be helpful.

Thanks

With 2023 (top 10) and likely 2024) classes wrapped up time to start looking at 2025.
ISU had an official visit from Kai Rodgers to witness the victory over KU Saturday.

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Talking to family over the weekend and they brought up these 2 missing men. I hadn’t heard anything about it.

First one is Mark Riesberg. He went missing in October. I can’t find this in the news, but according to my family his car was found on a gravel road with the cell phone and wallet in the car. I’m not finding much info on this one.

Second is David Schultz and this one is really suspicious.
He drives truck and hauls hogs. On Tuesday, Nov 21st he picked up a load of feeder pigs in Eagle Grove and was supposed to deliver them in Sac City.
The next morning they found his semi with the pigs still in the trailer, going north of Sac City.
The truck was in the road, not pulled off to the side and his wallet and phone were in the truck too.



Really weird, scary stuff.
Probably not related, but pretty coincidental to have similar missing persons cases close together in rural Iowa like this.

I'm putting this in Off-Topic, but if it needs to be moved to Politics, a mod can move it.

I feel like this story didn't get a lot of coverage locally (or if it did I missed it). In June of 2020 a 15 year old killed a man that had raped her. This week she sentenced to probation only, but Iowa law requires that she pay $150,000 to the family of the person that was killed. A teacher started this gofundme for her both to repay the money and to help her get some education and start her life. I think it is a worthy cause.

Figured didn't really fit in the weather thread...

World told to brace for 'severe geomagnetic storm' today - the first in nearly 20 years - which could bring chaos to mobile phone networks, GPS satellites and power grids.

At least five streams of plasma, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are heading toward Earth, prompting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue a severe geomagnetic storm watch for Friday into the weekend.

Feel like we should have a dedicated thread for tracking entrants to the Transfer Portal and potential Iowa State targets. I saw Willie mention that Connor McGonagle from Lehigh is in the portal, but probably not a fit at Iowa State as I like our guys at 133-149