God I hope it isn’t Iowa.

Would LOVE to have some back & forth with those posters right now, tonight, immediately after their loss.

On a serious note, Pennsylvania is straight hillbilly.

I mean complete trash. The state as a whole.

Judges?

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So during the broadcast they showed a predicted NCAA bracket with Indiana IN and Iowa nowhere to be seen. Then they finished the game with Iowa destroying the Hoosiers by 25 in a game that was over with 15 minutes to play. Indiana didn't look like an NIT team, let alone NCAA. The Hawkeyes played defense, hit the boards, and totally outplayed the visitors. Which again shows what a waste of time these NCAA guesses are.

Thelwell looks like the key to this team. His energy, especially on defense, sets the tone for the rest of the guys, and that defense also turns into a ton of easy points. Had Iowa made some FTs, they'd have won by 30+. But at least the FTs weren't needed last night. They made them against Nebraska when they did need to.

Freeman may have played his best game of the year, Payton had another sizzling second half, Pryce played well, Dix was his usual self, Harding is becoming more consistent, Dembele helps out and, of course, Thelwell is awesome.

The basketball season is long, and almost every team will hit speed bumps along the way. It's just the way it is. So if Iowa can avoid injury to key players the rest of the way, this team has the potential to finish strong, make the tourney, and dare I say, shock everyone and make the Sweet 16.

I'm enjoying seeing Iowa play defense, hit the boards, and dominate a team like Indiana. I hope the students, and fans in general, will realize this is a fun team to watch when they play with energy and confidence. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes from here.

Breaking my diet for a few m&ms rn.

Just watched Carry-On with Jason Bateman on Netflix. It’s right up there with Die Hard, Gremlins and Lethal Weapon as fantastic Christmas movie classics. Wham’s Last Christmas even makes a cameo. Fun for the whole family!

Really though, I was pleasantly surprised with how good this movie is. Think Die Hard meets Speed. Jason Bateman is such an underrated actor.

I never thought I would see that from an Iowa woman's bball team, maybe they were gassed when they shot a lot of those, maybe pressure, but in my recollection women are better freethrow shooters than men. It was too bad

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

There's more work to be done for the Iowa offense, but we need to recognize what Tim Lester has already accomplished in Iowa City.

Lester has not only revamped the Iowa offense, but begun to stack up major portal wins in his first full offseason.

STORY:

If they knew about the injury and was going to be tabled until June, he obviously wasn’t going to the combine. And we were told by multiple sources it was Iowa or the NFL. I find it hard to believe anyone would draft him without seeing him in the combine. Someone help me out here, it’s not adding up to me.

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To fund the Democratic party campaign debts in bait and switch post. Proceeds to get ruthlessly mocked and ridiculed.

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Community Notes for the win!

No wonder they hate X!

It is not a felony conviction, but maybe could be some day. And there is the investigation and maybe a legal case of Trump using false financial docs to get a loan from a Chicago iirc or midwest bank. There is more ice to find under the surface.

The NY AG case was a huge settlement against Trump. And of course Trump wants to sue everyone and he expects them to pay but he doesnt like to pay. He is just an extremely sociopathic type of person who blames everyone else and who thinks rules do not apply to him. So notice that is like a lot of these rich and so called really rich people.

This game is bananas lol.

Fannie Willis will go down in history as one the biggest failures in the legal field.

Georgia attorney Ashleigh Merchant reacted to news that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had been disqualified from her "weak" election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday.

A Georgia court of appeals filing declared that the "appearance of impropriety" stemming from an affair Willis had with Nathan Wade prior to hiring him to prosecute the case required her disqualification from the case.

Merchant, who exposed the improper affair months ago, told "Fox & Friends" on Friday that she believed Willis stuck to the case despite the scandal because she didn’t want anyone else to know how "weak" the case was.

"She could have done the right thing early on, whenever we brought this to everyone’s attention, and said, ‘Hey, let’s have a neutral prosecutor handle this case. Let’s have someone else look at it.’ But I think she was terrified because her case was so weak, she didn’t want someone else to look at it," Merchant told Fox News Channel’s Steve Doocy.

Based on Merchant’s uncovering of Willis’ relationship with Wade, Judge Scott McAfee ruled in March that Willis must either withdraw herself and her team from the 2020 election interference case or remove Wade as special prosecutor. Following the decision, Wade resigned from his position in the case, leaving Willis to continue it.

At the time, Merchant expressed her desire to have seen Willis removed from the case entirely, writing in a statement, "While we believe the court should have disqualified Willis’ office entirely, this opinion is a vindication that everything put forth by the defense was true, accurate and relevant to the issues surrounding our client's right to a fair trial."

Merchant’s goal to see Willis ousted happened months later on Thursday, after the state appeals court declared that Willis’ "appearance of impropriety" constitutes "the rare case in which disqualification is mandated, and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings."

Merchant characterized it as an obvious decision, telling Doocy that Willis’ impropriety was "something that you couldn’t turn your eye away from, and I think that’s something the court of appeals said."

"It’s one of those things that you know it when you see it," Merchant continued. "It’s the appearance of impropriety. It is so great that it had to be enough to kick them off the case."

After speculating that Willis wouldn’t willingly leave the case because of its weakness, Merchant expressed her belief that if a more "neutral prosecutor" got hold of the case, they would have it dismissed.

"I’ve always thought, if a neutral prosecutor – someone who didn’t have a financial interest in this case and a political interest in this case – looked at it, that they would see things differently. And they would decide that the taxpayers, the courts, the people who are charging the case, they deserve this case to be dismissed."

Would you rather that I be your grandpa or your grandma?

Who’s more mediocre?

Nobody else is as mediocre as the two of us, but I’m more mediocre than @Jimmy McGill !

ORLANDO, Fla. —
Florida's high-speed passenger train service suffered the first fatality on its new extension to Orlando on Thursday when a pedestrian was struck in what appears to be a suicide, officials said. Overall, it was Brightline's 99th death since it began operations six years ago.

A northbound Brightline train headed to Orlando struck the 25-year-old man shortly before 9 a.m. near the Atlantic Coast city of Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said at a news conference. He said the man was homeless and appeared to have intentionally stepped in front of the train.

Brightline’s trains travel up to 79 mph in urban areas, 110 mph in less-populated regions and 125 mph through central Florida’s farmland. It is unknown how fast this train was traveling, Mascara said.

Brightline officials did not immediately respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment.

Related: Brightline’s high-speed rail service from Miami to Orlando starts Friday

Brightline opened its extension connecting Miami and Orlando on Friday, though the celebration was marred when a pedestrian was struck by one of the company's trains carrying commuters from West Palm Beach to Miami.

Brightline trains have had the highest death rate in the U.S. since its Miami-West Palm operations began — about one death for every 32,000 miles its trains travel, according to an ongoing Associated Press analysis of federal data that began in 2019. The next-worst major railroad has a fatality every 130,000 miles.


But we're "saving the planet" amirite?

December 28, 2024 Update:

After the 27-20 loss to UCLA on November 2, 2024, Little Debbie extended their streak of losing 4 or more games in a season to 21 YEARS IN A ROW.

Today, Dec 28, 2024, Little Debbie hung on to beat Boston College 20-15 in the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl

Little Debbie finished 2024 with a 7-6 record.

Frank Solich (Bo Pelini coached the bowl game?) went 10-3 in 2003. That team was ranked as high as #10 in the country.


Here is a look at the 21 years since that 10-3 season in 2003:
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Bill Callahan (4 years)
2004: 5-6
2005: 8-4
2006: 9-5
2007: 5-7
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Bo Pelini (7 years)
2008: 9-4
2009: 10-4
2010: 10-4
2011: 9-4
2012: 10-4
2013: 9-4
2014: 9-4
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Mike Riley (3 years)
2015: 6-7
2016: 9-4
2017: 4-8
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Scott Frost (4.25 years)
2018: 4-8
2019: 5-7
2020: 3-5
2021: 3-9
2022: 1-2 (fired on Sep 11, 2022)
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Mickey Joseph, Interim Head Coach (.75 year)
2022: 3-6

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Matt Rhule (2 years)
2023: 5-7
2024: 7-6


Little Debbie. The official snack cake of the Big 10 Conference.

A large reservoir in Pacific Palisades that is part of the Los Angeles water supply system was out of use when a ferocious wildfire destroyed thousands of homes and other structures nearby.

Officials told The Times that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been closed for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117 million gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades.

The revelation comes among growing questions about why firefighters ran out of water while battling the blaze. Numerous fire hydrants in higher-elevation streets of the Palisades went dry, leaving firefighters struggling with low water pressure as they combated the flames.


epartment of Water and Power officials have said that demand for water during an unprecedented fire made it impossible to maintain any pressure to hydrants at high elevations.

Had the reservoir been operable, it would have extended water pressure in the Palisades on Tuesday night, said former DWP general manager Martin Adams, an expert on the city's water system.

As if the weather situation wasn't bad enough at ATL, this happened:

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And it's the second such event at ATL this month?! 😮

Eggs are expensive though.

Lower Net ranking than both Drake and UNI. Bummer, I was hoping it was going to be a Quad 1 opportunity.. Oh well I guess they'll just have to upset UCLA.