My niece owns 160 acres of farmland in North Dakota. She received an offer to sell from a farmer that owns some adjacent land. She currently rents the farmland to a relative who is very unethical and a PIA to deal with. The rental agreement, which expires December 1st, has a provision allowing the renter to match (or better) the offer. The farmer making the original offer needs the sale to happen before December 1st.

I don't have the specific language regarding the matching offer, but I assume she can sell the land to whoever she wants.

What are her options? Are there any circumstances where she has to sell to the relative?

Iowa State football players trade the gridiron for the gym at a Des Moines youth clinic. From D-line drills to playing catch with current Cyclones, athletes like Zaimir Hawk and Jaylen Raynor took part in Monday's football clinic hosted by T-Mobile.

Want to chat about your favorite car?

Vent about the dealer charging a million dollars for an oil change and tire rotation?

Ask questions about CF users experiences with their model/make or seek advice on repairs or trouble shooting?

Talk tires?

Here's the placeholder thread for those postings.

What it isn't going to be is place for trolling or ranting like maybe a Ford guy to just rant about how much he hates Chevy pickups or visa versa. Threads in the Off Topic Forum, like our sports threads, are moderated, it ain't a free for all.

Voting is open for the Cyclone Fanatic Fast Food Tournament Sweet 16.


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When Spielberg is on, he makes some of the best blockbusters in history. His sci fi movies are also top tier.

Disclosure Day is top tier Spielberg. Holy cow. It’s like a cross between Close Encounters and Minority Report.

I was excited to see this but wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it is. Oscar winning or noms? Not sure but great movies are made that don’t get those awards. Blunt deserves a nom. Never been better.

Highly recommend.

Before any more critical destruction of T Juco Tech, "we surrender".

Guess the Alamo is not in Lubbock.

Not the riches we're used to, but still a couple of ISU goats.

Monte Morris debuted with the Pacers against his old team the Denver Nuggets.

15 minutes, 3 points, 2 boards on 1-5 shooting. So some rust to knock off.

Niang has yet to play, although should be back any game now.

Thinking pretty hard about get a sauna for the house (inside) here soon. Looking through the options the price ranges depending on several factors but I really want one that will get hot enough to actually see benefits. There is the question of infrared or traditional? 110V or 240V? If you go 240 did you get an electrician to come in?

Any sauna people out there that can shed some light?

Jake Brend, Ben Hutchens and Rob Gray put a bow on the Brendan Sorsby saga and what it means for the future of college athletics. The fellas get into some hoops, previewing the NBA Draft for Tamin Lipsey and Joshua Jefferson before spinning the wheel and landing on Lafester Rhodes. Presented by Kelderman Manufacturing in the Northwest Bank Studios. Login to view embedded media

As we head into the summer travel season today's OTN theme will be loosely based on that.

This week we are looking for songs with titles and/or lyrics containing any form of the words: Visit, Visitor, Guest or Host/Hostess.

Last week's OTN was on the topic of Trouble, and can be found here:

https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-t-r-o-u-b-l-e.299013/page-3#post-10388389

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

All the woodworkers post what you've been working on, past projects or your current setups.

Apple is crushing it right now and this upcoming series looks fantastic.

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On the pro sports business side of things...

Pretty big sports news in the DFW area over the past couple of weeks, as both the Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Stars have announced they will be leaving the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas when their respective leases end in 2031.

The interesting thing is where they are both going. The Mavs are moving to north Dallas to build a new arena and entertainment district at the site of the vacant Valley View Mall. The Stars are moving to Plano to build a new arena and entertainment district at the site of the dying Shops at Willow Bend mall.

There have been a number of interviews on TV with the GMs of both clubs. The Mavs GM is more subtle, while the Stars GM is pretty blunt, but the primary reason given by both for leaving is that the teams want to control and make money from the entertainment venues and amenities around the arenas. That seems to be the current paradigm for new sports arenas. The Stars are going to Plano, because that is reported to be where the majority of the season ticket holders are located.

The poor 25-year old AAC seems to be doomed in this new paradigm. The city of Dallas owns the arena, but Victory Park and the other properties around the AAC are owned by a few other big developers, and neither the Mavs nor Stars could grab enough land or make deals to bring in the revenue they wanted from the surroudning area. It will be interesting to see what happens to the AAC.

Coming up in just a couple of weeks and entries are rolling in.

Right now, Carr is the only entry for Cyclone RTC. Man, his performance at the Open looms large. 74kg looks pretty stacked. Both guys who just beat Carr are there. PJ Duke is registered. Evan Wick is dropping down after having a lot of success at 79. Jayden James is also registered who is young, but really good.

We are losing our two best facilitators in Jefferson and Tamin each averaging nearly 5 assists a game. Who do you think at the end of the season will lead the team in assists?

In the running:
Toure - 2.3apg
Jaquan Johnson - 3.6apg
Ryan Prather - 3.6apg

Freshman:
Yusef Gray Jr. - 1.8apg (2023-24 season, injured 2025, not sure his stats this year)
Christian Wiggins - 4.4apg

Could one of the forwards lead? Probably not, I think Jefferson was an anomaly and would be quite a jump in production for any of them. I'd be surprised to see any of the freshman come in and immediately facilitate the offense but its happened twice in TJ's reign (Hunter and Lipsey). My guess will be Prather will lead all players. If he can put it together on the defensive side I think his toolset could be deadly as the guy we run an offense through. Lead the nation assist to turnover ratio last year at 4.4 (Monte's average was 4.65).

Iowa State earned another commitment to its 2027 recruiting class in Fort Wayne, Indiana, EDGE rusher Leslie Woodson.

So my son just graduated from high school this week and is off to UW-Madison this fall. So incredibly proud of him, but honestly, it's been a really difficult week for me. It feels like someone suddenly put a bow on his whole childhood and I'm just not ready for this chapter of parenting to end. I've heard parents talk about this experience before, and I always rolled my eyes a bit. But damn, I get it now. I'm just not ready to say goodbye to that little kid whom I've seen grow up for these last 17 years. I'd give anything to go back in time and push him on the swing again on a warm summer day. So much of parenting is about keeping schedules and making money, and it feels like I just didn't get enough time to really soak it in, and now he's leaving the nest.

I know a lot of people here have gone through this transition. What experiences or perspectives have helped you get through it?

As Jimmy Rogers takes over in 2026, he gets to take over a program with a recent tradition of winning. That's something Matt Campbell couldn't say in 2016.

But as Andrew Harrington writes in this week's Monday Musings, comparison is the thief of joy. It's time to enjoy the ride.
https://cyclonefanatic.com/2026/06/monday-musings-to-be-or-not-to-be-disappointed/

April 22 - In a major move that would allow schools to start directly paying their athletes, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors proposed deleting 153 rules from its handbook as part of nine potential legislative changes at a Monday meeting.
The proposals are pending approval of the $2.8 billion House settlement reached last year of three separate antitrust cases against the NCAA and college sports' power conferences. The proposals include name image and likeness compensation and regulation, a change from scholarship limits to roster limits, eligibility standards and the creation of a legal entity to oversee enforcement of the updated athlete compensation rules in Division I.

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Overall: A+ obviously.

I see TJs plan as recruiting killer freshman, getting 2 years out of them and if they blow up, let them "Milan" out of the program or go to the NBA. There's always the chance we somehow retain them, but with salaries rising faster than a can of Busch Light at a ISU tailgate, I don't see that happening. The magic ingredient—transfers.

Super-smart plan by coach if you ask me.

We're going to have so much fun balling in the Big12 and into the foreseeable future. Can't wait.

Tyrese is the first player in Pacers history to have a 40 pt 10 assist game.
Ended up with 43 and 12.

Also, largest pt total by a Cyclone ever in the NBA.

He's only 23. His game is outstanding.

Jack Kohnen's commitment over the weekend gives Iowa State the No. 1 recruiting class in the country as of June 16. Jake Brend scouts the third commit of T.J. Otzelberger's 2027 class and how he fits at Iowa State. Presented by Whiskey River in the Northwest Bank Studios. Login to view embedded media

I don't own any Roku stuff, but should be interesting to see what happens to the Roku end of things. The acquisition will be completed in the first half of 2027.

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Did I miss the thread or is this it? I've been waiting to see everybody's thoughts. Personally even though the dates and times haven't been disclosed I don't think we have much to be disappointed in. Home and home with KU. Arizona and BYU at home. Would have liked Houston twice and Tech not at all ( ). I'm fairly clueless what opponents' rosters will look like and "Past performance does not guarantee future results" but the path seems favorable there for success. Could be another fun season even with the loses of key players and the addition of new untested pieces under TJ's command

Common sense prevails with Brendan Sorsby entering the NFL Supplemental Draft. With that, Texas Tech's reputation is damaged forever and they only have themselves to blame. Jake Brend reacts. Presented by Fareway Meat & Grocery in the Northwest Bank Studios. Login to view embedded media