There will be no turkey on my Thanksgiving table this year, but there are plenty of turkeys on TV this weekend. The Sweep looks at five fairly uninspiring games. broomcornsweep.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Chicago State-Iowa men's basketball glance for Thursday: Time/livestreaming info/notes. www.thegazette.com/iowa-basketb...

Had a dream the other night about a bunch of competitive knobs who obsessed over sports enough to make it a job. And the said knobs actually would wait for the desk guys to get off before we could start the poker game. The broken teeth came off pistachios. There was one that was brotherly, cap B

The Iowa men's basketball team entered Tuesday's game vs. SE Missouri State as the nation's fifth-best shooting team. After a 99-70 rout of the Redhawks, the Hawkeyes were No. 2. www.thegazette.com/iowa-basketb...

Name a perfect album that came out when your were 16. I fought like hell to get the Violent Femmes “Violent Femmes” played on the football lockerroom jambox. It being a Catholic school boiled it in irony. They got “Blister in the Sun” out of their system and then went right to the Sugarhill Gang.

I used to know a guy who got seats behind the opponents bench at Carver because he wore the opposing team’s sweatshirt.

RayComm would’ve had us neck deep in Hawkeye basketball.

Hey, I didn’t make this. But I should have.

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

Take us home, Townes.

"The original Port Huron statement, not the compromised 2nd draft." #TCMParty #TheBigLebowski ^JW

Sass-catch-ew-win, I believe.

The Dude’s wardrobe consists almost entirely of Jeff Bridges’s actual clothes—he brought options from home and the Coens said, “Perfect.” #TCMParty #TheBigLebowski ^JW

Uncredited actors filled out the bowling teams. Imagine trying to convince your buddies that’s you in Lebowski and them telling you you’re full of shit.

Hey, was there anything to what happened at the end of the game yesterday? Iowa sideline got a call. Lincoln Riley then celebrated like it was the birth of his first child.

Obliged to put up the recipe for a White Russian for tonight's #TheBigLebowski #TCMParty... First the classic version and then an elevated one in the 🧵... 2 oz Smirnoff vodka 1 oz Kahlua 1 oz half & half Pour in short glass over rocks.

Wonderful essay from @stevenhyden.bsky.social. Please do consider Todd’s catalog. The irascible kind have a shelf life.

I don’t want to live in a world where the Bears kicker gets to do a goofy victory dance in the lockerroom and we all laugh. But, you know, these days, fuck yes, Chicago. This is my Catalina Wine Mixer hug to you.

At least it was agonizing for one of them (says the dolt whose team somehow escaped the rudderless Giants).

Hlas column: Ben McCollum on building his Iowa men's basketball program: "It is going to be hard. And being good is hard. That’s what makes it fun." Essential to what must be done, he says, is rebuilding the fan base. www.thegazette.com/iowa-basketb...

Today should do it for LaFleur. I don’t know where they go, but this team has stopped listening to him.

Brady is fine, but he reminds me of that guy in the press box who couldn’t shut up. All you got out of me was “Keep ‘er movin’” or “Aw Christ, here come the emails.” Yesterday would’ve been an email day. I did change the phone number at the end of my stories to something in Veracruz. 15 years 😂😂😂

This is amazing.

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Dueling missed FGs in OT between Nevada and UNLV. The mediocrity is intoxicating.

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Been saying it for years. It’s not a knock on Ohio State. There’s an elite division and Ohio State is the first one in.

Lane has the aura of a squirrel who’s lived through 2 1/2 bouts with the tire.

Hackman is brilliant in this. One of your better hobo movies. Pacino’s character breaks your heart.

Generally, Iowa hasn’t figured out QB. Gotta shoot for more than “serviceable, trustworthy and thrifty.”

I feel like I post this one a lot.

Same tip toe bad puck luck as last week with the 2-point PAT. I can’t believe it was as close as it was. What an effort by Wetjens.

If it’s the Holiday Bowl, go. Five days should do it.

The #Hawkeyes had +3:50 TOP at the Half - now it's SC +2:24 - so a big swing in the 3Q.

Can’t imagine time of possession in the 3Q was pretty.

Did most everything right on that play. They made a play.

USC A players showing up. Too many explosive plays.

Can’t remember the playcalling program I studied, but it contended there are 13 open spaces on any given play and the defense can only defend 11. That pass to 6 was one of those.

KF got in their ear about holding.

I don’t know what the general thought or like what’s out there, generally, IMO, one of Phil’s best seasons. Squeezing a ton out of what he’s got. He’s been more aggressive and the corners have held up (mostly, it’s corner, for god’s sake). I wonder how much man they’ve played this year vs Phil norm.

Vonnahme gives me the Kittles.

Texas A&M police says it has removed this trooper from his game day assignment following this:

we might have to worry about keeping Tim Lester. He's our Tom Wambsgans

BAIL OUT BABYYYY

When this pic showed up, I didn’t touch it. Finally, the renowned B Ray let me know that he shot this for the newspaper that I worked at and subscribed to. I know we sold a few on a coffee cup.

KF used to get questions about “the exotics.” He’d kinda snort. I’d go, “That was like 2 percent of what Hayden had going on.” KF, “Exactly!”

Kirk just called a goddamn bona-fucking-fide Hayden Exotic.

When Iowa gets blocks on the second level, KF is crying on the inside. Tears of joy, you guys.