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UConn sports information director Mike Enright just emailed with an official comment about Iowa State's Cy the Mascot's broken arm. Here's what he wrote (the bold is his emphasis): More »
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Zane Brugenhemke has plenty of photos of Cy the Iowa State Cyclones mascot on his Facebook page. This isn't some sort of weird furry fetish, for Zane Brugenhemke is Cy and Cy is Zane Brugenhemke. More »
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No one's ever said corn doesn't have ears. After universal derision of the new Cy-Hawk Trophy, it has been decided that the silver-gilt monstrosity shall never again see the light of day. At a press conference this afternoon, the Iowa Corn Growers Association expressed their regrets, and announced that an "interim trophy" will be handed out to the rivalry game winner in 18 days. More »
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This is the new Cy-Hawk Trophy, given annually to the winner of the Iowa State-Iowa football game. It depicts an Iowa farmer presenting to his family some of the subsidy-fattened corn crop that he will soon sell to an Archer Daniels Midland processing plant in Keokuk, whereupon the corn will be converted into high-fructose corn syrup and ethanol that will make America both fat and asthmatic. The farmer's wife dropped out of the workforce to raise her children, and plummeting land values have vaporized the family's main source of collateral, making it impossible to borrow. The daughter will reject her Methodist upbringing and become a heroin addict at 15. The son is gay. More »
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Proving once again that being the daughter of a former Big 12 football coach will not get you out of being arrested, here's the combative and always hilarious Jillian McCarney. More »
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So let me get this straight: Gene Chizik used to be the defensive coordinator at Auburn, left to become the head coach at Iowa State, then left that job to go back to Auburn to be the head coach, and is now being replaced at Iowa State by Paul Rhoads ... who was the defensive coordinator at Auburn. Why don't these two schools just get a room already? [ESPN] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5115550&view=rss&microfeed=true A few thousand of you wasted no time in messaging me Dave Lapham's interesting call during today's Texas-Iowa State game. And thank you. But only one gentleman took the time and effort to record and upload it for the world to see. Mr. Awful Announcing, I promise to never "face rape" you. As for the rest of you... More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=310560&view=rss&microfeed=true Just because you aren't a good student doesn't mean you play for a good basketball team. [Storming The Floor] More »
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