Getting the pleasure (I think) of heading to my 2nd game of the Rainers/I-Cubs series today.  Being in Iowa, this is my bi-yearly treat.  I got to watch Ian Snell pitch sporadically on Wed.  Smoak hit a homer and Ackley looked lukewarm on offense.  Supposedly we'll be getting RRS tonight in a battle of pitching hyphens as he faces Austin Bibens-Dirkx.  What a name!!  I wish they'd win a game this series, it'd make me feel a little better about the future...

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100427/SPORTS020604/100427028/BREAKING-NEWS-Cyclones-negotiating-with-Fred-Hoiberg-to-become-coach

Via the Des Moines Register.  It'll sell season tickets and bring in booster money like crazy, but can the guy coach?  The Timberwolves aren't exactly a beacon of NBA success and profiteering.  Fran vs. Fred: The Battle for Francium

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via 1460am KXNO's website.  They're the big sports station here in the DSM area.  This was pretty much all the local guys talked about all day today.  Whether he's right or wrong, this is definitely something to be thought and not said in an email.

So few of us are truly real fans...

http://www.kxno.com/pages/miller-deace.html

Pollard forgets that by being a public university, and by us being tax paying citizens, we all really support the debacle he is slowly deconstructing in Ames.