"I know exactly who he was, I know what his gift could do, and I know that we were all just a little happier, a little better off, for getting to hear the song...for as long as we did."
@adamamin gives a touching tribute to his late partner, Stacey King ❤️
At a loss for words trying to describe tonight. 16 months from hell, but Ames, Iowa was the perfect place to get back to it. I’m a Loyal Son, Forever True. Love y’all forever @IowaStateU❤️💛
Tyrese Haliburton's first game since his Achilles injury will be played at Iowa State, his old college.
He quietly bought EVERY student-section ticket, giving college students a chance to attend tonight.
World class person. (via @ScottAgness)
Aiden Flora through five games:
-- No. 4 nationally in all-purpose yards per game (157).
-- No. 7 nationally in rushing yards (594).
-- Averaging 8.14 yards per carry.
-- Has fewer carries than every player ahead of him on the rushing leaderboard.
Saturday: 212 rushing yards, three rushing touchdowns and two touchdown passes.
The former walk-on from Adel is becoming one of college football’s best stories.
Photo: Imagn Images / Reese Strickland
Be Case Keenum.
> Grow up in West Texas. Two-star recruit. One scholarship offer.
> Take it. Rewrite the NCAA record book at Houston.
> Marry your high school sweetheart, the girl you took out for snow cones before any of this started.
> Go undrafted anyway.
> Spend your rookie season on the practice squad.
> Get cut. Get claimed. Get traded. Start over.
> Get your chance in Minnesota when the starter gets hurt.
> Throw the Minneapolis Miracle.
> Help take the Vikings within one win of the Super Bowl.
> Keep moving after that, too.
> Eight franchises. Different jerseys. Different playbooks. Another chance to prove you belong.
> Through all those moves, keep building a life with the girl.
> The girl from the snow-cone date becomes the mother of your two children.
> Spend years preparing for opportunities that rarely come.
> Go 1,009 days without a start.
> Keep showing up. Keep doing the work. Stay ready.
> Then, at 38, get the call. Chicago needs you.
> Walk onto Monday Night Football.
> Throw two touchdowns. Run for another. Beat the Eagles 27–7.
> Do it with both your kids watching you play in person for the first time.
> Finish the night on SportsCenter with your little girl beside you.
All those years. All those moves. All those Sundays waiting for a chance.
And when this one finally comes, you fucking crush it with your kids looking on.
Imagine what that feels like.
There are a lot of ways to teach your children to keep going.
Letting them watch you do it has to be one of the best.
Absolute legend! 🫡
NEWS: Iowa State basketball has officially announced that Tamin Lipsey is back with the Cyclone basketball program for the upcoming basketball season. Lipsey won an extra season in an Indiana lawsuit on Wednesday.
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For anyone calling Caleb Williams soft please respectfully stfu
You have no idea the training and preparation these guys put their bodies through to be able to go out there every weekend and be at their best
The raw emotion is coming from a place of uncertainty that everything you’ve worked for could be taken from you
Miss me with all the bs
Azeez Al-Shaair pays tribute to Wafaa Akila on his eye black
She was an 8 year old child who was killed by the IDF in a car bombing on her first day of school