The hand wringing and wailing is funny, and mocking trump for his misunderstanding of how tariffs actually work is good sport, but what is your prediction on how many will actually be put in place?

Will he ACTUALLY put them at 200% on John Deere and others who move out of country?
If the end product is assembled here, does he actually go after them?
If the chips are actually needed for hardware for jets or other security related, how many of those are actually made overseas? Chips Act has already started driving manu back to the US
All the MAGA crap is made in China, will those hats have a tariff applied?

might now be my top pet peeve.

We get to our kids' Christmas program 30 minutes early. There are tons of open seats, but literally every section we tried to sit in with a decent view was being saved by family or friends for people who weren't even there yet. I asked four separate times if the people the seats are saved for were even there yet and got awkward 'well, no... but they're coming answers'. Fine if you're saving seats for someone going to the bathroom or something. Maybe my wife and I were being wusses by not just sitting down somewhere being saved; we wound up sitting on the side with a bad view. CSB

USC was 37-57 from the floor and got 9 offensive boards from those misses.
We were 32-60 from the floor (respectable) but only got 4 offensive boards.
They scored 99 points with 10 missed free throws.
They had 90 points with about 4 minutes left.
At times in the game it looked like our 5 guys were playing different defensive schemes.
The harder we tried the easier looks we gave them.

That was historically bad. It really is amazing how many career/team history stats we give up.

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

OK, this was a huge pain in the ass, so I am not sure if I will do it again before the final tournament seeds come out. Especially if no one cares.

But, I used an online expansion calculator to turn my probability of AAing by seed into the probability of each discrete number of AAs per team. I only did this for the 18 teams that have at least two expected AA's.

Now, in addition to seeing the expected AA's, you can see how the distribution shakes out for each number of AA's from 0 to 10, along with the most probable result.

All of this was done with the final pre-season Wrestlestat rankings (again assuming rank = seed).

The one big caveat is that true freshmen who have not wrestled in a college open are not included in the rankings yet, as near as I can tell.

I know some people on this board are going to want to fight me (5 AA's? Are you out of your ever lovin', mathematically challenged mind?), but really your issue is with Wrestlestat.

The corruption door slams shut on the Biden crime family Monday. Get your kleenex out libtards!!!!!!!’
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Iowa State was 0-7 from the 3-point line last night, ending a record streak of 945 straight games with a made 3, dating back to Feb 19, 1995.

Trump's Truth Social Platform Hints at Feb. 21 Launch​

An iOS App Store listing teases a launch on President's Day.

Donald Trump’s social media platform might be gearing up to launch on Feb. 21, according to a listing on the Apple App Store.

A pre-order page for Truth Social on the iOS App Store has been quietly updated to mention an “expected Feb. 21, 2022” arrival date.


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The developer behind the platform, Trump Media & Technology Group, didn’t respond to a request for comment. But according to Reuters, the Feb. 21 date is legit, citing an unnamed source familiar with the plans for Truth Social.

A launch on Feb. 21 would also be fitting, considering it’s the President Day’s holiday.

Trump was permanently banned from Twitter and suspended from Facebook and YouTube after his supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In response, Trump has been developing Truth Social, a pro-free speech social media platform that’s designed to counter the alleged censorship from “Big Tech.”

“Unlike with the Big Tech platforms, there will be no shadow-banning, throttling, demonetizing, or messing with algorithms for political manipulation,” Trump said back in October. “We will not silence our fellow citizens simply because they might be wrong—or worse, because we think that Americans ‘can’t handle the truth.’”

Co-Players of the Week
Payton Sandfort Iowa
G – Sr. – 6-8 – Waukee, Iowa – Waukee

• Averaged 26.5 points, six rebounds, and 3.5 steals in leading the Hawkeyes to a pair of wins
• Shot 55.6 percent from the floor (15-of-27), 52.6 (10-of-19) from 3-point range and 92.9 (13-of-14) from the free throw stripe
• Tied a career high with 30 points in a 97-87 overtime win over Nebraska, scoring all 30 after the halftime break
• Added a game-high 23 points and six boards in Iowa’s 85-60 win over Indiana
• Claims second Player of the Week honor
• Last Iowa Player of the Week: Payton Sandfort (March 4, 2024)

Vladislav Goldin, Michigan
C – Grad. – 7-1 – Voronezh, Russia – Putnam Science Academy

• Averaged 27.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, and 2.5 assists while shooting 76.0 percent (19-of-25) from the field, 78.9 percent (15-of-19) on free throws, and added two more three-pointers (2-of-4) as No. 20 Michigan went 2-0
• Shot 13-of-18 from the field and 9-of-11 from the free throw line and scored a career-high 36 points in a 94-75 win at then-No. 22 UCLA
• Goldin's 36 points were the most by a Wolverine since Daniel Horton had 39 against Illinois on Feb. 21, 2006
• Scored game-high honors with 19 points to lead the Wolverines to a 91-75 win over Washington
• Earns his second Player of the Week award
• Last Michigan Payer of the Week: Vladislav Goldin (Dec. 9, 2024)

Freshman of the Week
Wesley Yates III, USC
G – 6-4 – Beaumont, Texas – Beaumont United

• Averaged 16.5 points on 63.2 percent shooting from the field (12-of-19), five rebounds and 2.5 assists, as the Trojans split a pair of contests
• Tallied a team-high 18 points in an 82-69 loss at Indiana before pairing 15 points and six boards in an 82-72 win at then-No. 13 Illinois
• Earns his first Freshman of the Week award

One of the best football plays I've seen in a long time.

Pure heart.

Don't ever kid yourself that video game football is where it's at

Peak Iowa: Easy kum, easy go​

by Malcolm MacDougallJan 3, 2025

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Snow falls on Kum & Go’s 1st and Muscatine location in Iowa City, Jan. 9, 2024. — Genevieve Trainor/Little Village

“Do you really have gas stations called Kum & Go?!” –A half-whispered quote from multiple out-of-state visitors of mine

Sadly, the window of opportunity to scandalize the uninitiated is quickly closing. In April 2023, Kyle Krause, the Des Moines-based owner of Jizz & Jet, announced that he would be selling the company to Utah-based Maverik, whose CEO, Chuck Maggelet, announced at that time that the branding would not change. Since then, they’ve reassessed.

“If you’re growing cross-regionally, which brand do you think will have more appeal to a new audience: Maverik or Kum & Go?” a (notably anonymous) source told trade publication CSP. “No disrespect to Kum & Go, but the answer is pretty clear.” Already the replacement of Smash & Dash signs has begun around the region, with the single-entendre MAVERIK logo replacing the one Iowans have known and loved (or, at least, tolerated) for nearly 60 years.

The famous/infamous Ejaculate & Evacuate logo was designed by Michael Phelan, a Cedar Rapids music teacher, freelance designer and a Von Maur piano player for Lindale and Westdale malls for 25 years. I never met him in person, but a little gesture from him a couple of years ago has made Phelan someone I’ll never entirely forget.

At my previous job, one of my duties was to write and send birthday cards to customers on behalf of the business. It was a simple process: Boilerplate message written in my pinched, vaguely tortured handwriting. Pair with a gift card. Send them out weekly.

Michael Phelan’s original drawings of the first Kum & Go store. — courtesy of the Phelan family
One day, I received a card back from Phelan with his family crest on the front, and inside, in beautiful, near-machine-perfect calligraphy, he thanked me for the gesture. Regrettably, over the course of a couple of moves, I’ve lost track of his thank-you card, but I never forgot the way that it had shocked me — the idea that he had taken the time to write this meticulous little note of gratitude to me. I couldn’t even remember writing the card to him.

Phelan passed away in May of 2024. I found that out when I started writing this piece, which was initially going to consist primarily of various alternative names for Kum & Go. But really, there are Reddit threads full of the most innovative minds in obscene puns for that.

In fact, it was probably inevitable, given the fountain of online jokes and memes about Kum & Go, that the name would be changed. It would always be replaced with something so corporate-friendly that it will slither comfortably across the frontal lobe and whip away into oblivion. Soon our highways and streets will be blessedly clear for any who may clutch so firmly at their pearls that they veer across the lanes into oncoming traffic. So it goes.

Michael Phelan’s original drawings of the first Kum & Go store. — courtesy of the Phelan family
I drove past a Kum & Go this morning. For the first time, I deeply examined the logo, the custom-drawn lettering, the connecting line that underlines the whole thing and connects the K and the G. I thought about the hand that had drawn the logo, the same one that played the organ at the church down the street from my house, the same one that at 81 had written a thank-you card to me with such deft precision I’d thought it was a font.

Soon the signs will be gone, and all that will be left will be another fun little fact about the Way Things Were When I Was Young that I’ll tell my daughter. But for the moment, some still stand, cherry red and white against the gray winter skies.

Trump hitting the really import stuff

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If Trump truly gets rid of a large percentage of migrant workers, which are a high percentage of the work force in meat packing plants, and farm workers that harvest all kinds of vegetables and fruits, who will replace these workers, and at what price . . . and how much will the prices increase at the grocery store. The short sightedness of these polices and the fact that Conservatives think that Trump will lower inflation is appalling to anyone who has a smidge of intelligence.