Ames Pet Shelter

A few weeks ago, Grant Mahoney gave the last five minutes of the "Kickin' It" podcast to talk about pets, including the new and improved Ames Pet Shelter. He is a great advocate for humane treatment of animals. However, he didn't emphasize that there is still a need for donations to finish funding the new shelter. Here are some links about the project and donating.



Every gift counts.

2028 Football Targets

Scholarships are going out to the rising sophomores. Might as well get this thread kicked off with a couple of local Iowa kids, right?

No idea if Carter is any relation to Dylan and Austin, who are from St. Charles, IL.


OT Pete Eglitis Commits

Big commit, literally! Someone got maple syrup? This guy loves pancakes!

Not sure if he’ll end up on the right or left side, but that’s what S&C is for, right?

Excellent get!

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Acreage tips from the Fanatics

Just purchaced a new home just outside of Ames with 4.4 acres (3 small pastures, indoor riding arean w/ 6 horse stables, small outbuilding for hay/equiptment,)

I need any advise you can spare. We have never had an acreage and don't know the first thing about horses. We are planning on self care boarding the stables for a little bit of suplimentary income.

Eventually plan on having a horse or two of our own.

I am going to need to purchace a tractor for mowing/snow plowing, and areana maintenance. I am thinking a smaller tractor with a bucket and will need a grader for driveway. Hope to get one with a 60" mowing deck.

Anyway, any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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Williams & Blum: Should the Big 12 consider the 4-4-2-2 model?

Chris Williams & Brent Blum dumb down the much talked about house settlement for the common fan. Plus, should the Big 12 consider taking two auto bids? All this and more presented by Mechdyne.


Williams and Blum Podcast

I may have to go back and re-listen, but I could have sworn that Blum made a comment that in most schools Olympic sport athlete won't be getting paid via the school and the new house ruling, but he said "at Iowa State they'll pay MBB, WBB, football, and in Iowa State's case, wrestling". I think it was around the 20 minute mark on Sundays podcast.

Is this true? Will the wrestling team be getting a small piece of that pie?

Kickin’ It: Best trash talkers, worst road trips, and more mailbag questions

Grant Mahoney and Jeff Woody opened it up to answer all of your questions about the biggest trash talkers they played with and against, their worst memories from away games, and their views on recruiting as a player. Talking NCAA settlements and more, courtesy of Kelderman Manufacturing.


MONDAY MUSINGS: Haliburton, Carleton's 9-0 start, Bananas & ESPN vs. Sports

MONDAY MUSINGS
-Tyrese Haliburton's Game 1 winner
-Bridget Carleton & Minnesota's 9-0 start
-Official Visit Weekend
-The Savannah Bananas & ESPN vs. Sports & more in this week's edition from @cfchangs9

Hollywood, stop ruining the classics!

There is apparently a Spaceballs sequel in the works starring Josh Gad. Josh Gad. WHY???? This pisses me off. How the hell do so many talentless butt smurfs get roles in big movies nowadays? KNOCK IT OFF, HOLLYWOOD!!! Some rich person needs to start a company that buys the rights to classic movies so these turds cannot do remakes or reboots. Get some original ideas and stop destroying the greats. You're not gonna make a movie that's half as good as the originals so what's the damn point?

2025 NCAA Softball Tournament

Top 16 seeds (regional hosts)
1. Texas A&M (SEC)
2. Oklahoma (SEC)
3. Florida (SEC)
4. Arkansas (SEC)
5. Florida State (ACC)
6. Texas (SEC)
7. Tennessee (SEC)
8. South Carolina (SEC)
9. UCLA (Big Ten)
10. LSU (SEC)
11. Clemson (ACC)
12. Texas Tech (Big 12)
13. Arizona (Big 12)
14. Duke (ACC)
15. Alabama (SEC)
16. Oregon (Big Ten)

SEC - 9
ACC - 3
Big 12 - 2
Big Ten - 2

Big 12 Qualifiers (5)
Texas Tech - regional host
Arizona - regional host
Oklahoma State - 2 seed in Fayetteville
UCF - 2 seed in Austin
Arizona State - 2 seed in Los Angeles
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Kickin It - fielding questions for a mailbag episode (6/10)

For this weeks episode (released 6/10) we’d like to do a mailbag episode. We know Williams and Blum have recently done this as well, but there’s honestly not a lot going on that hasn’t already been talked about, and a lot of the people we’ve tried to come on our show are on vacation. So we want to hear from the listeners and field as many questions as we can! We record at 5:00 on Mondays so get the questions in before then!

Games When you're Bored at work

This past weekend, my workplace had a major IT upgrade event. Started Friday night and went all the way through Sunday. 30 of us worked until midnight-ish every night, and then got going again at 8AM. I wasn't part of the actual upgrade tasks, more on the organization and coordination side of things. There was a lot of waiting around. We had a bridge call going, and as we whiled away the hours, we were doing things to entertain ourselves. We settled on a game called "What Movie Title best describes (insert random subject)?" So like: What movie title best describes your last relationship? What movie title best describes your first day of college? That kind of thing. And then everyone types their answer in the meeting chat, we all laugh and do it again. My favorite, by the way, was "What Movie title best describes your last trip to the bathroom?
- The Longest Yard
- Backdraft
- Big
- Black Snake Moan

Just a bit of light-hearted fun, during an event that wasn't much fun at all.

Anyway, does anyone else have any go-to activities for passing the time at work?

On That Note: Ifs, Ands or Buts

This week for On That Note, we explore songs that contain “If" "And" or "But" as the first lyric of the song, or first word in the title.

Last week's topic was Catch; it can be found here: https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-catch.292733/

Your weekly hosts for OTN are @cyclones500, @CycloneRulzzz and me.

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