Gifting all y'all the article from NYT:

Congrats to Crooks and Brown for being invited to the AmeriCup trials. By my count, ISU is one of 4 schools with two players invited (Oklahoma, Vandy, Notre Dame).

Does anyone have a subscription to 247 Sports? I'd be intrigued to hear/see who might have caught the eyes of the coaches at recent camps.

MONDAY MUSINGS
-Tyrese Haliburton's Game 1 winner
-Bridget Carleton & Minnesota's 9-0 start
-Official Visit Weekend
-The Savannah Bananas & ESPN vs. Sports & more in this week's edition from @cfchangs9

Hi All,

Anyone recommend any contractors bathroom remodels and touch ups in the Ames/Ankeny area?

Remove wallpaper, new flooring, vanity, mirror are the top priorities.

For this weeks episode (released 6/10) we’d like to do a mailbag episode. We know Williams and Blum have recently done this as well, but there’s honestly not a lot going on that hasn’t already been talked about, and a lot of the people we’ve tried to come on our show are on vacation. So we want to hear from the listeners and field as many questions as we can! We record at 5:00 on Mondays so get the questions in before then!

Does anybody else hate these as much as I do? They can ruin my day for probably a good 10 minutes. You have to deal with the snot without the climax.

Chris Williams & Brent Blum dumb down the much talked about house settlement for the common fan. Plus, should the Big 12 consider taking two auto bids? All this and more presented by Mechdyne.

RECRUITING: Iowa State picked up its 13th commitment of the 2026 recruiting class today in 6-foot-7, 285-pound OL Pete Eglitis.

Big commit, literally! Someone got maple syrup? This guy loves pancakes!

Not sure if he’ll end up on the right or left side, but that’s what S&C is for, right?

Excellent get!

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Couldn’t recall if I’ve see much in the way of UFC discussion threads.

The Holland match was fun.

I got Directv Stream and MLB.tv so I could watch any game I want. Turns out that since the Brewers are blacked out in Iowa, I can’t watch their game on the MLB app even though Des Moines Fox 17 picked up Yankees-Red Sox instead of Brewers-Padres. Any workarounds?

And so it begins.

His last second shot wins game one of the finals.

There are constant debates throughout the NFL season about whether Brock Purdy is actually any good or if he just has a bunch of talent around him. Tyrese Haliburton was “overrated” and then “not a superstar”.

The results kind of speak for themselves, don’t they?

Thanks so much to @JP4CY for this one!!

40th anniversary today of Ferris Bueller's day off from school. The literal day.

Did you ever play hooky from school? What is your favorite day? What did you do?

If not school, how about work, or something else?

Thanks to @BurgundyClone for this first one - I am going to need a minute to figure mine out:

What first name do you have more of than any other in your phone?

Never mind, I know why it's so hard -- so you give up in frustration and keep paying in perpetuity. I went to cancel my 247 subscription as the promotional period was about to end and followed the instructions to a T. I was told to go to my settings on the 247 site, then under the subscriptions column, click on "cancel my subscription." Only problem is, there is no such set of words to click on anywhere on the page.

It also gave me the option of calling to cancel or emailing. I chose calling when canceling online failed to work. I got the robo answering machine, went through all the prompts and after the final prompt, the phone rang and then nothing. No music, just dead silence. I had a sneaking suspicion they hung up on me. Turns out, after a wait of nearly 5 minutes that that is exactly what happened as the call just ended. So I called back.

If they expected me to give up at this point, they don't know who they're dealing with. I called back and finally got to talk to a live person, but they made me jump through hoops before they agreed to cancel the subscription. It shouldn't be this hard, but more importantly, it shouldn't be this deceitful. If you say there is a button where you can cancel your subscription, you ought to, by god, have a button where you can cancel your subscription.

Upcoming Bowl schedule now out:

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I'm on the board of the Iowa State Alumni of Denver group. We are trying to plan an event of some kind for the game in Boulder in October. Boulder is not cheap and the tailgating scene is scattered at best. We are trying to put together a tailgate party with ticketing, wristbands, a couple of food trucks (one entree included), and unlimited beer/seltzer (no other alcohol available). Profits from the sale of tickets would help to fund our scholarship. An alternative idea is to go simple and find a bar/restaurant to host ISU fans with a cash bar the night before. How much would you be willing to pay for a single ticket to a tailgating party like this?

This week for On That Note, we explore songs that contain “If" "And" or "But" as the first lyric of the song, or first word in the title.

Last week's topic was Catch; it can be found here: https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-catch.292733/

Your weekly hosts for OTN are @cyclones500, @CycloneRulzzz and me.

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Is dumping ESPN+ out of the Disney Bundle in favor of HBO/Max the right play for maximizing ISU/Big XII viewing at this point?

Do we know yet if ESPN+ will still show any worthwhile (ISU) content this Fall and beyond?

RECRUITING: Iowa State tight end target Isaac Jensen tells NebPreps that he'll look for what he saw at Iowa State on his future visits coming up.