The coolest thing for me about the MR is that it can anchor to the floor bed, release a tethered device and recharge it power unit.
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With the current playoff and bowl game situation, does a team even want to be a lower qualifying team for the playoff system? Indiana's post season reward is a trip upstate to South Bend? Oh my what fun. Obviously the benefit of post season is the extra practice, but every bowl team gets that.

I think we are seeing the beginning of the end anyway. Especially for post season bowls with the transfer portal and opt outs. I know Iowa is feeling a bit of pain there too, but Nashville is still a better destination than South Bend.

Yea or nay? Finishing a glass with bourbon and a little nutmeg.

Someone has stepped up their basketball game over the off-season!

An article this AM details her new relationship with a guy 26 years her junion. It says she is 79!!! This CANNOT be right? Every photo I can find of her looks like she is in her freaking 40's at best!!! What gogo juice is this woman taking!??

LINK - This gal is supposed to be 79???

Democrats have been caught doing the very thing they’ve been accusing President-elect Donald Trump of doing: Cutting Social Security.
On Wednesday, the U.K. Daily Mail reported Senate Democrats are trying to push through a Social Security reform bill they want to see signed by President Joe Biden before Trump takes office.
The Social Security Fairness Act aims to repeal provisions that reduce payouts to public sector employees who have their own separate pensions.
The CRFB also states, “As a result, we estimate a typical dual-income couple retiring in 2033 would see their benefits cut by an additional $25,000 over their lifetime.”
The think tank says if Social Security runs out of money under this bill, as much as $400,000 in benefits would be lost for the average couple. CRFB states the cost for the bill over the next decade — citing the Congressional Budget Office — would be $190 billion.

Anyone lay any bets on this?

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Just got word from a source that Iowa had another big visitor in today for a visit. Believe he's currently on campus.

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Once they decided to play tough defense, the Hawks had no shot. Great rebounding effort as well. That is what makes up for a poor shooting night, should one occur.

We do not have that to fall back on.

Fran, please move on.

Iowa offers Idaho transfer portal wide receiver, Jordan Dwyer.

Caught 78 passes for 1,192 yards and 12 touchdowns this season for the Vandals.

Has other offers from Washington State, Nevada, Western Michigan and others.

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The newly elected Pennsylvania Republican State Rep. Brenda Pugh called on officials in Scranton to remove Biden’s name from expressways labeled in his honor after he pardoned former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan.
That now-disgraced official was convicted after taking kickbacks in exchange for sending juveniles to jail for committing no crime whatsoever.

A little closer, anyway, so Beth says. Getting students around the floor of Carver the way they do at Michigan State and Illinois and many other arenas is, apparently, like trying to arrange peace in the Middle East . . . all but impossible. But the effort continues in Iowa City.

Meanwhile, MSU and those other schools have had students in the bottom 10 rows or so all around the court for years and years. And somehow they still get the old folks and the big donors and everyone else into the building. It makes me wonder why it's so difficult in Iowa City. Ask MSU how in the world they figured it out, and maybe do what they did. Could what works in East Lansing possibly work way out west in Iowa City?

Anyway, I guess as long as the ice cream machines are working, it can't be all bad . . .

Lower level tix are all at $300 plus on ticketmaster....what is with that? Is iowa traveling well? CFP games were cheaper!!

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

How's life, man?

What’s up?

Still fixing jimmi carter ****-ups 40 years later...just as some day someone will still be fixing jo bob's! >

The WSJ comes out with some details of how bad it really was with Joe. The constant lies from the left about his mental capacity

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My favorite however will always be this dickbag going after Hur for something that was actually true

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is fantastic. For anyone who remembers the Jets D- line of Mark Gastineau, Joe Klecko, Marty Lyons and Abdul Salaam.

Gastineau hasn't changed at at all. Footage of him confronting Favre at a 2023 signing convention.

Also you should look up Gastineau's boxing career. His promoter is shady AF. Had guys taking dives against Gastineau because he had a deal in place to fight Foreman if Gastineau could go 12-0. One figher, Doc Anderson, wouldn't dive and exposed Gastineau in the ring and ruined it all by knocking him out.

They had a rematch later and the promoter allegedly drugged Anderson and Gastineau won. The promoter was later shot and killed by Anderson. They could make a movie just about that.