Any chance we will hear anything on spring practice. I know it is closed, but any thoughts?

From Iowa Athletics:

The University of Iowa football team will hold an open practice presented by US Cellular on Saturday, April 20, in Kinnick Stadium. The open practice will conclude Iowa’s spring drills and is free to attend.

Gates to Kinnick Stadium will open at 9:45 a.m. (CT) with practice scheduled to begin at 10:45 a.m. Fans will be able to enter select gates, including Gates A (south end zone) B (southwest) and H (northwest). Regular season game-day search procedures will be in place and fans will be allowed to sit in the south and west stands.

Taxes are ridiculous. Nothing changed 22 over 23…f this.

taken to the extreme. OMFG

When did the crust shift happen?

It's total shit now. Half-baked, super doughy, just sad.

Grand Rapids’ NBC affiliate reports:

The sister of murder victim Ruby Garcia said she and her family were home watching live, in disbelief, as former President Donald Trump told an audience in Grand Rapids that he had spoken with “some of her family.”
“He did not speak with any of us, so it was kind of shocking seeing that he had said that he had spoke with us, and misinforming people on live TV,” Ruby Garcia’s sister, Mavi Garcia, told Target 8.
Mavi Garcia, the family spokesperson, said neither Trump nor anybody from his campaign has contacted her or anybody in her immediate family. She said her family is close and she would know if that had happened.

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But Garcia’s sister, acting as a family spokeswoman, said Tuesday that Trump and his campaign have not contacted her or other immediate relatives — and rebuked the GOP presidential nominee’s effort to make the case part of his calls for a border crackdown.

“It’s always been about illegal immigrants,” the victim’s sister, Mavi Garcia, told local news station Target 8. “Nobody really speaks about when Americans do heinous crimes, and it’s kind of shocking why he would just bring up illegals. What about Americans who do heinous crimes like that?”

What kind of ****ing idiot is going to vote for 4 more years of Open Borders jo??

Probably because jo and dems won't let them! What a piece of work.........

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Hawkeye fans showed up for the Iowa-LSU Elite Eight game, so much so that Brothers Bar and Grill in Iowa City ran out of Busch Light during the women's basketball game.

The popular sports bar had a record turnout on Monday, mirroring the record-breaking TV ratings for the Iowa-LSU rematch. Brothers nearly hit capacity as 12 million people across the country watched the game.

"It was like 10-fold," Manager Trey Jennings said of the turnout. "We were pretty dang close to capacity and on a Monday night, that's good — lots of students out."

The Busch Light on draft went fast in part because Brothers receives its beer orders Tuesday morning, Jennings told the Press-Citizen.

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I live 2 hours from Cleveland and would love to go to the game but it's just too much to get a decent seat and i don't want to sit in the nose bleed sections. Does anyone know a gathering place in downtown Cleveland for Iowa fans? My family is all in to watch the game in a bar with more screaming Hawkeyes!

Good ol' Geno, hoping Iowa doesn't beat him too badly.

UConn's Geno Auriemma hopes Iowa's Caitlin Clark won't 'drop 50 on us' in Final Four

Why am I just find out about this?!

EDIT: I forgot that they had the watch party last year. Do I still get any credit for the idea?

All it took was eight years and a new athletic director.

https://hawkeyesports.com/news/2024/04/03/wbb-final-four-watch-party/

From: Jim Calkins
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 9:26 PM
To: Barta, Gary A
Subject: Show Away Games @ Carver

As long-time women's basketball ticket holders, we are always frustrated by the difficulty in watching away games. It would be a great fan experience to be able to come to the hospitality room at Carver and watch the game with other fans. We have cut the cord, so cable isn't an option for us. We tried BTN online, but the games were intermittent and often unavailable or unwatchable. Go to a bar? Uh, not high on our list. We did try it once but had to fight to get the television switched to the women's game. I suggest trying it a couple times next season and see how it feels.

Thanks for your consideration. It would be a strong show of support of the university's support of women athletes.

--
Jim Calkins
"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out." (William Christopher Handy)

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From: Barta, Gary A <gary-barta@hawkeyesports.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:23 AM
Subject: RE: Show Away Games @ Carver
To: Jim Calkins

Jim,
Thanks for your support for Hawkeye Women’s basketball! I love the future of this team with 2 freshmen, 2 soph’s, and 1 Jr. in the starting five….all coming back!
We appreciate fan feedback and ideas. I’ll forward your thoughts to our marketing team for consideration next year. No guarantee if we will or won’t be able to do it…but we are constantly brainstorming ways to grow the excitement.
Again, thanks for your Hawkeye support!
Gary

Another animal pumped full of drugs and hormones goes haywire.....

According to ESPN - UConn 61% chance to win?

Almost seems like they don't want Gaza to get any humanitarian aid.

If you're in/around Iowa City and want a unique environment to watch Iowa-UConn on Friday night, there will be a watch party for the game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Details below:

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The University of Iowa Athletics Department will be hosting a FREE women’s basketball watch party Friday evening at Carver-Hawkeye Arena for the second-ranked Hawkeyes’ national semifinal game against 10th-ranked UConn.

Doors at the North, South and West entrances to Carver-Hawkeye Arena will open at 7 p.m. (CT) -- 90 minutes prior to the 8:30 p.m. scheduled tipoff from Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland.

Fans attending the watch party will be asked to view the game on the jumbotron from the east side of the arena in Sections NN, N, M, L, MM, LL, KK.

Parking will be free in all Carver-Hawkeye Arena surrounding lots. There will not be reserved parking.

During the watch party, there will be in-game entertainment and the Hawkeye Fan Shop and concessions (including beer and wine) will be available.

Angel Reese has never lost to Iowa.

She is 3-0 vs Iowa while at Maryland.
She is 1-0 vs Iowa while at LSU.

Hopefully Iowa can break her streak.

Iowa struggles against athletic teams that rebound well ... particular when such teams are also shooting well.
It's a tough match-up.

On top of that ... as much as Iowa fans might hate on Kim Mulkey ... the lady sure as hell can coach the game of basketball.
No offense to Bluder ... I love her brand of choreographed O at Iowa ... the ball movement can be an absolute thing of beauty.
However, Mulkey can out-coach her any day of the week. That was certainly the case last year.

Hopefully, Bluder and Co come up with a better plan this year.

A few that didn't make prior preview articles that are of note. Plus, Evan Jacobson is visiting tomorrow:

STORY:

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Which one did girls prefer?

However, the Biden administration has depleted the SPR, which contains an emergency oil supply and was established for emergency scenarios, to its lowest level in four decades. The SPR currently contains 351.3 million barrels of oil, 44% lower than it was in January 2021 when Biden took office and a level last recorded in September 1983 prior to this year.

Since taking office, Biden has ordered the Department of Energy to release a total of about 260 million barrels of oil stored in the SPR to combat high fuel prices that hit consumers in late 2021 and mid 2022. While the administration has recently initiated the process of refilling the emergency reserve, Republican lawmakers and energy experts have warned its actions make the U.S. vulnerable to short-term supply shocks.



PS: but Trump.....

Lots of movies are about to drop, or come out this weekend. I will admit I am looking forward to the new Ghostbusters movie. Beyond that The Monkey Man looks dark and with a lot of gratuitous violence. I am very interested to see the new WW2 movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which is the product of a book I reviewed on HORT years ago.
What are you looking forward to seeing?

The White House has directed NASA to establish a time standard for the moon, as the United States races to return to the moon, at a time when several countries including China and Russia, and private companies, have also set their sights on space.

A memo Tuesday from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy outlines the Biden administration’s desire “to establish time standards at and around celestial bodies other than Earth” and instructs the space agency to “develop celestial time standardization with an initial focus on the lunar surface” by December 2026.

The unified time standard will be known as “Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC),” the memo says.

A standardized time reference is needed because the moon has a weaker gravitational pull than Earth due to its smaller mass, meaning that time moves slightly faster on the moon than on Earth — on average, 58.7 microseconds per day, “with additional periodic variations,” the memo says.


The project, first reported by Reuters, will be important because “knowledge of time … is fundamental to the scientific discovery, economic development, and international collaboration that form the basis of U.S. leadership in space,” the memo said.
“The clocks run faster on the moon,” Catherine Heymans, the astronomer royal for Scotland and a professor of astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh, said in an interview. “This is one of the beauties of fundamental physics — crazy things happen.”

Heymans explained that “the way we define time on planet Earth is with an atomic clock.” Atomic clocks are affected by gravity, which means “if you took that same atomic clock up to the moon, then in 50 years it would be one second faster than the atomic clock on Earth.”
“So it’s a very small change in time” between the Earth and moon, she said, but as Einstein’s theories of relativity explain, time is “running faster on the moon than it is on Earth.” According to the theory, time moves differently depending on where you are in a gravity field, with time moving faster where gravity is weaker.

Timekeeping is an exact science for technologists — and in atomic time, a second is defined as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium atom.
Separately, Heymans notes that a day on the moon — to include a day and a night — is also different from a day on Earth. A lunar day is 29.5 Earth days, she said. “This means that on the moon, the sun is up for roughly two Earth weeks, and it’s then dark and nighttime for roughly the next two Earth weeks.”

The full moon sets over Big Ben in London on April 27, 2021. (Alastair Grant/AP)
The White House memo says one of the key reasons for the standardization of time is due to the fact that the United States plans to “return humans to the Moon and develop capabilities to enable an enduring presence.”

NASA’s Artemis moon program aims to realize the U.S. goal of returning astronauts to the moon for the first time in over 50 years. Artemis II aims to send a human crew around the moon, and its crew will include the first woman, the first African American and the first Canadian to fly on a moon mission. NASA hopes to launch Artemis III, involving a human moon landing, by September 2026.

The time standardization comes as China, India, Russia, Japan and others are also pushing for a greater presence in space — China, in particular, has said it aims to land its first astronauts on the moon before 2030. Private companies are also developing initiatives to send commercial spacecraft to the moon’s surface and orbit, for scientific research and mineral mining.

“U.S. leadership in defining a suitable standard — one that achieves the accuracy and resilience required for operating in the challenging lunar environment — will benefit all spacefaring nations,” the memo said, also noting that a “unified time standard will be foundational to these efforts.”

Last year, the European Space Agency issued its own memo outlining the “urgency of defining a common lunar reference time,” acknowledging a “new era of lunar exploration.”

Like the White House, it said it was no longer enough to base time on celestial bodies on Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is widely used on Earth, and that a more accurate time reference is needed as use of the moon becomes more sophisticated and common.
The standardization of timekeeping will also allow for more precision in spacecraft docking, data transfers, communication and navigation said Heymans. “There would be chaos on Earth if we didn’t all have the same time,” and it might soon be the case on an increasingly busy moon, she added.

Earth’s moon is the brightest and largest object in our night sky and is about 27 percent the size of the Earth, according to NASA.
“It’s always there in our lives. What’s so beautiful about the moon is, it’s constantly changing, it never looks the same from one night to the other,” said Heymans.
“If we want to safely work in that environment on the moon, we have to account for that fundamental different nature in time,” Heymans added. She also noted one perk of potential moon time: With no need to maximize sunlight hours, there would be no need for daylight saving time there.