Millions of $$ for kids to play a college sport is stupid.

Cheering for millionaires from one school play millionaires from another is difficult to do.

Especially, when I know lots of people who are struggling to get by.

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Iowa offers FCS Freshmen All-American DB, Sascha Garcia out of the transfer portal. Three years of eligibility remaining.

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Leading Miami by 10 with 4 to go. Bunch of D2 transfers beating the Canes.

Listening to the game, all the talk about Kris and Keegan got me wondering how his pro career has started. I'm not a NBA guy at all, how's he fairing?

An appeals court recently upheld a $460,000 judgment against two Eastern Iowa cattle farmers who somehow misplaced a valuable bull named Michiyoshi and attempted to substitute him with an impostor.



The case involves the owner of the bull, American Wagyu Breeders, of Michigan, and Eric and Sarah Bailey, formerly of West Branch.


They forged an agreement in late 2012 in which the Baileys cared for the bull on their farm about 5 miles east of Iowa City in exchange for use of his semen for their Wagyu herd, according to court records.




The Japanese cattle breed is thought to produce among the most delectable cuts of beef, and Michiyoshi's 100-percent black Wagyu genetics were coveted.


But in 2016 after the bull was sent to a central Iowa business for semen collection, DNA testing revealed that he was not Michiyoshi. Instead, the DNA matched another Wagyu bull the Baileys had possessed but claimed to have sold.


Michiyoshi's whereabouts remain a mystery.


"Despite days of trial and years of litigation, we are left just as confused now as the day the original petition was filed," Judge John Sandy wrote in a Thursday Iowa Court of Appeals decision. "We only know that a full-blood black Wagyu bull named Michiyoshi disappeared into thin air."





The bull that was claimed to be Michiyoshi was actually named Hirashige, which had purportedly died after the Baileys sold him to a friend years earlier.


The Baileys gave many conflicting details about the situation, court records show, including when the bull was sold and when he died. Sarah Bailey had initially claimed Hirashige died in 2013. Later she said the death happened in 2015.


The remains of the deceased bull that had been sold to the friend were exhumed but were too decomposed to obtain a sufficient DNA sample for comparison, court records show.


"It is still unclear how the supposedly dead Hirashige was represented to be Michiyoshi for several years, and there is no trace of Michiyoshi," Sandy wrote.


American Wagyu Breeders sued the Baileys in 2019, and in 2023 a jury found them liable for breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation and ordered them to pay $460,000 for the owner's losses.


The Baileys divorced while the lawsuit was pending, and Eric Bailey died last year. Sarah Bailey and Eric Bailey’s estate appealed the jury’s decision based on a judge's exclusion of certain evidence and testimony, court records show. They also questioned the amount of damages awarded by the jury.


But the appeals court found no procedural errors that affected the outcome of the trial, and it said the award was reasonable.


The judges noted that "Michiyoshi was only as valuable as the quantity and quality of semen the bull might provide," which his owner estimated to be about $700,000.

The $750,000-a-year LA water czar is responsible for a raft of failures that contributed to the devastating Palisades Fire, fire department insiders told DailyMail.com.

On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones on a $750,000 salary in May – almost double that of her predecessor.

Now, Quiñones is being blamed by LA Fire Department (LAFD) insiders for leaving a nearby reservoir disconnected and fire hydrants broken for months, DailyMail.com can reveal, leading to firefighters running out of water as they battled the devastating Palisades Fire this week.

And, Daily Mail.com has learned, Quiñones past employer is also linked to fire scandals. She was previously a top executive at electricity company PG&E, which went bankrupt over liability for several massive wildfires in California.

She served as senior vice president at Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) from 2021 to 2023.

The utility company's power lines sparked the second-largest wildfire in California history, Dixie, in 2021. Its involvement in the 2018 Camp Fire cost PG&E a $13.5billion legal settlement.

The firm's liability for allegedly causing fires was estimated at $30billion when it filed for bankruptcy in 2018. It exited bankruptcy in 2020.

Quiñones joined PG&E in April 2021 as Senior Vice President of Gas Engineering, switched to Senior Vice President of Electric Operations in July 2022, and left the firm in December 2023.

Sources told DailyMail.com that since her hiring at LADWP, Quiñones oversaw the shutdown and emptying of a reservoir in the Pacific Palisades during brushfire season.

The shutdown meant firefighters battling the current Palisades Fire ran out of water faster, experts say.

The Santa Ynez Reservoir is designed to hold 117 million gallons of drinking water. But it was taken offline in recent months to repair a tear in its cover that exposed the water and potentially impacted its drinkability.

The shutdown was first publicly reported by the LA Times on Friday morning.

Former DWP general manager Martin Adams told the paper that having the Santa Ynez reservoir would have helped fight the Palisades Fire that wiped out most of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood this week.

'Would Santa Ynez have helped? Yes, to some extent. Would it have saved the day? I don't think so,' Adams said.

He said the crucial reservoir had been offline 'for a while' before the fires, but didn't know the precise date.

But a source in the LA Fire Department (LAFD) told DailyMail.com that DWP officials told them 'had it not been closed they probably would have been ok and had enough water for the fire.'

At a press conference this week, Quiñones said firefighters ran out of water in the Palisades due to low pressure in the system, because they were using water faster than it was being replenished.

A well-connected former LAFD senior officer told DailyMail.com that lack of water was already a 'common' problem, exacerbated by DWP failing to fix cutoff fire hydrants.

'Yearly, the fire department goes out and checks every hydrant,' he said.

'For my entire career we would do this once a year then send in a report to our Hydrant Unit with all the problems we encountered. Year after year the same hydrants that had problems were not fixed.

'One example that comes to mind were the hydrants by Palisades High School on Temescal Canyon. They were dry many times we checked them. DWP knew they had problems and it would take months to fix them.

'It's a City-wide known problem with DWP.

'Last year the yearly hydrant checks were given back to DWP because the firefighters literally are too busy on calls.

'I would be willing to bet DWP didn't do this. I would love to see if they have the documents.'

LADWP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A current senior LAFD official also told DailyMail.com that some hydrants in the Palisades were not working when desperate firefighters tried to use them this week, and that they had not been fixed because of budget cuts by LA Mayor Karen Bass.

DailyMail.com exclusively obtained a memo to LAFD 'top brass' sent on Monday January 6, the day before the Palisades Fire began, revealing demands from Bass to cut the department's budget by a further $49million, on top of $17.6million of cuts already voted on by the city council.

The Los Angeles Daily News previously reported that the city's overall spending on its fire department increased by $53million in the fiscal year 2024-25 which runs to this July, but that $7 million of their budget was put in a separate fund for personnel while pay negotiations were still being hashed out, leading to the $17.6million accounting shortfall.

Department veterans told DailyMail.com that the net effect of the budget machinations has meant less firefighters on the ground for years.

The under-fire LADWP was only just recovering from a series of major scandals, including in 2022 when its former General Manager David Wright was sentenced to six years in federal prison for bribery.

Wright took bribes from lawyer Paul Paradis to help secure a $30million, three-year, no-bid LADWP contract for the lawyer's company, according to federal prosecutors.

Compounding the corruption, Paradis was also taking nearly $2.2million in illegal kickbacks from a complex scheme where he simultaneously represented LADWP and residents suing the department over a billing debacle.

DWP implemented a new billing system in 2013 that inaccurately inflated utility bills, sparking class-action lawsuits.

Paradis represented the city as Special Counsel, but was simultaneously representing claimants in the billing debacle, and colluded to get a favorable payout for himself and clients. He was sentenced to three years in prison in 2023.

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Benny is from Iowa ... for the noletrolls who come here after getting kicked off their own board.

Exchanged some messages with Sam on Christmas Eve, and he shared some thoughts and details from his visit to Iowa City.

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Next time I’m in the QC, come meet me at Whiteys on 41st so I can throw a couple of dollars in your little Swarm bucket. Maybe that will get you a functional head coach who doesn’t punt on fourth and short.

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I wish both teams could lose. I despise them both, but I despise Georgia and the SEC a little bit more, so it's good that ND is taking a 13-3 lead into the half. And LOL at Georgia for the turnover that led to an ND TD with seconds left before the half. Sometimes you should be aggressive. Sometimes you shouldn't. That didn't seem a like a good time for Georgia to be aggressive.

Vander Zee stood flat footed and let the DB slip around him. That's middle school stuff. And Vander Zee was a basketball player, so there's no excuse for that. In any sport, you don't stand there and wait for the pass. You go meet it. And if VZ had done that, the worst that would have happened was an incompletion. So objectively speaking, that INT was just as much on the intended receiver as it was on the QB.

Sullivan seems to be taking a lot of criticism. And sure, he made mistakes, but so did the Missouri QB. But he got away with them. Sullivan made some great plays with both his arm and his feet. Plain and simple. But what about the coaches? What about the play calling the second half? What about Parker refusing to put ANY pressure on the Missouri QB with some well-timed blitzes? That was bullshit. Missouri had all freakin' day to throw. Iowa made NO defensive adjustments the second half, and the offensive adjustments were to ride a 10-point lead, typical KF play not to lose. That can work against the Big Ten West. It doesn't work against good football teams. You could look it up.