The Michigan-Iowa game today was just unbelievable. Iowa won 94-66. The Hawkeyes were exceptional in just about every aspect of the game. Everyone was moving well, we were finding open people, and just could not miss. Henderson had a couple 3-pointers in a row. Haluska was on fire. Even Alex Thompson had a couple impressive baskets in the 2nd half. The turning point in the game of course was the hard screen that bloodied Jeff Horner’s nose. A little dirty perhaps, Brown pretty much shouldered him. Who cares? Horner came back. This guy is tough.
Iowa should definitely crack back in to the Top 25 again. If they keep playing well over the last few weeks, they ought to get a pretty good seed in the NCAA tournament.
Published on
November 16, 2005 in
School.
This is a prime example of how to not write a lab report. I commented to my wife the other day about how I’m going to be responsible for a whole generation of doctors getting in to medical school. It’s because of papers like this, and my exam scores, bringing down the curve and making everyone else look better.
DOWNLOAD HERE (Removed as requested by J Caldwell)
So I saw this vanity license plate yesterday and it reminded me of some funny plates on TheSmokingGun.com, so I decided to post links to more funny plates:
Man, these close losses are killing me. The first two losses of the season were complete blowouts. The next two losses came down to the wire, with the Michigan loss even coming in overtime. I’m not sure which is harder. I know Michael and Audrey were very upset and were tearing up after the loss. OK, I was too. This week won’t be much easier, traveling up to Madison. Wisconsin is really good this year. We’ll see what happens.
Man, what a game today. Unfortunately the Hawkeyes did not prevail, losing 23-20 to Michigan in overtime. It looks like the blocked field goal was the difference here.
The thing that really made this loss so hard to take is the amount of penalties committed called on Iowa. Before today’s game they were flagged 20 times in 7 games. Today alone they had eleven. Some of them really hurt. There were pass interferences called on Iowa when there shouldn’t have been. To be fair, not all of the bad calls went against Iowa. How about that “fumble” that went under the instant replay review. The Michigan ball carrier was clearly in possession of the ball when it hit the ground; in fact, it could clearly be seen that the ground caused the fumble. It should have been Michigan ball, especially after the replay didn’t show “indisputable video evidence” as required by the Big Ten’s instant replay rules. If anything, the video replays should have made it even more obvious that Michigan did not fumble the ball.
Really in the end though, the reason Iowa lost, I think, was too many incomplete passes. I think QB Drew Tate looked really good through most of the game. But when you have perfectly thrown passes getting dropped by wide open receivers, that hurts. And when one of your best receivers lets a ball slip through his hands and get intercepted, that really hurts. You’ve got to hand it to Michigan though, they’ve really stepped it up against some tough teams this year, and taken more than their fair share of games down to the wire.
I just read on HawkeyeSports.com that Iowa is 0-3 when playing on ABC this year. It looks like if we want to keep winning we need to stick with being televised on ESPN+
So I had breakfast this morning at the Cottage. They usually have pretty good breakfast stuff. (Slightly off-topic: if you ever have a chance to try their Morning Glory Muffins, GO FOR IT! It’s amazing.)
Anyways, this morning I saw this strange looking flat stuff in one of the hot pans. I asked the girl behind the counter what it was and she said it was vegetarian bacon. She said it tasted like real bacon, and lately I’ve been looking to try some new foods, so I thought I would give it a shot. It looked to me what I imagine it would look like if somebody took some cardboard and tried to make it look like bacon. And that is how it tasted. Like cardboard. With artificial bacon flavoring added. Being a huge fan of real bacon myself, I didn’t care for this stuff at all, and needless to say, I did not finish it.
It got me to thinking though, why would anybody even want vegetarian bacon? I realize here in Iowa City, there is a substantial population who are vegetarian/vegan because of the whole cruelty to animals thing. I would guess that most of them weren’t raised vegan, but adopted this lifestyle later in life. Perhaps the carnivore-turned-vegan crowd loves bacon, and they still want that bacon taste. Plus, why would they want to eat something that was supposed to “mimic” the real thing? They don’t like it when people pretend to hurt animals on television or the movies. Maybe heart-conscious consumers want a healthier alternative to the delicious, greasy, strips of bacon.
Surely neither of these are right, since this stuff didn’t really taste like bacon. It’s a mystery to me.
with a remote control for the snooze button. Some may think this would be bad thing; it might cause me to oversleep since it would be too easy to hit the snooze, but think about this. The reason I hit the snooze button is because I am TIRED. If I could just point a remote control at the clock to snooze it instead of getting up and out of bed every nine minutes, I would actually get better, less interrupted sleep, and I’d actually wake up sooner!
Published on
September 21, 2005 in
Michael.
So Michael lost a tooth last night. I went into his room after he was asleep to check and see if the tooth was still there but I couldn’t find it. If I couldn’t find the tooth, how was the tooth fairy supposed to? So I had to wake Michael up and ask him where it was. Luckily he fell right back to sleep, so I’m sure the tooth fairy left him some money.
I just got done watching the season premier of ‘Medium’ on NBC. That show is soooooo creepy. I’ve you haven’t seen it yet I’d highly recommend it.
