J. Mike Brown

Iowa State Women's golf team leading the NCAA tournament on Day 2!

@annabf123 ICI

The hardest decision of them all… someone please help me decide😩

From 2010 through 2022, Texas went a combined 60-61 in Big 12 play.

Thomas Massie: "I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. And the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country." An absolute mic drop. 🎤⬇️

The most revealing line in Southampton’s statement is:- ‘We cannot accept a sanction which bears no proportion to the offence… Southampton has been denied the opportunity to compete in a game worth more than £200 million.’ But that completely undermines their own argument. If the match is worth £200 million and meant everything to the club, then the incentive to gain any unfair advantage was enormous. And who exactly were they trying to deny that opportunity to? Middlesbrough. You cannot simultaneously argue: 1. The stakes were colossal 2. The offence was minor 3. The punishment should be small The higher the stakes, the greater the importance of protecting sporting integrity.

In the UK, a soccer team has been kicked out of the Playoff for filming opposing team practices. In the US, Michigan Football leveraged a naval intelligence officer’s skills to win a Championship. America celebrates innovation, the UK punishes it. 🫡

Southampton FC new badge for next year 😳😳😳😳 if you know you know

62% of D2 football players that entered the transfer portal have retired. 79% of D3 athletes. 🤯 The grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

In 1897, Campbell’s soup was a luxury. A single can cost 30 cents nearly half a day’s wage for an industrial worker. Most families couldn’t afford it. Then a petty family argument changed American food forever. Arthur Dorrance owned the Campbell factory in Camden, New Jersey. His nephew, John, had just returned from Europe with a chemistry doctorate. Arthur thought it was useless. He hired John anyway — at $7.50 a week. Barely more than a laborer’s wage. And if the “college boy” wanted to run experiments, he had to buy his own equipment. The factory workers laughed at him. The place was brutally hot, loud, and smelled of boiling cabbage and beef fat. Campbell’s sold canned vegetables, preserves, and heavy soup in giant 32-ounce tins. The real problem wasn’t the soup. It was the water. Railroads charged freight by weight, and soup was mostly liquid. Shipping costs made it expensive before it even reached a grocery shelf. John had a simple idea: Remove the water before shipping. At first, it failed badly. The broth scorched. Vegetables turned to mush. Fat separated. Beef became rubber. Workers mocked him for “burning lunch.” But John kept experimenting in a tiny corner lab on the factory floor. He adjusted temperatures. Separated ingredients. Calculated evaporation rates. Tested batch after batch. Finally, he cracked it. He created a concentrated soup that kept its flavor while removing roughly half the water. Instead of huge tins, he packed it into a small 10½-ounce can. His uncle hated it. Arthur thought customers would feel cheated by the tiny can filled with thick paste. He told John to abandon the idea. John pushed for one small test run anyway. Price: 10 cents. Customers took the cans home, added one can of water, heated it up… …and it tasted like the original 30-cent soup. Sales exploded. Freight costs collapsed. Grocers loved the smaller cans. Orders multiplied so fast Campbell’s shut down other product lines entirely. The “useless” chemist took over the company. And when the Great Depression hit decades later, millions of Americans couldn’t afford luxuries anymore. But Campbell’s condensed soup still cost 10 cents. It lasted for months. It filled stomachs. It became survival food for struggling families across the country. John T. Dorrance never became famous like Edison or Ford. But he quietly built one of the most important food products in American history by realizing something nobody else had: Sometimes the most profitable innovation is simply removing what people don’t need. John T. Dorrance: The man who stopped paying to ship water.

I’m winning this but if you want to try you can buy a raffle ticket to support #Cyclones wrestling my.onecause.com/event/organiza…

Here it is. In this clip you can see Coon passes out as the fall is called. This call was not overturned 🎥 @FloWrestling @CPyles8

David Carr wins a wild one at 74 kg. After building an 8-1 lead, Carr held off a late push from Jayden James to win 9-7 in the World Team Trials Challenge Tournament finals. Carr is headed to Final X. Check out this nasty super duck:

The irony of Lane Kiffin dunking on Ole Miss for its ties to the Confederacy is that LSU gets its Tiger mascot from the Louisiana Tigers, a Civil War infantry regiment that served under Robert E. Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia. The Louisiana Tigers were known not only for their bravery on the battlefield but also for their unruliness, drunkenness, rioting, and discipline issues- all of which seem to have manifested in LSU fans today and can be observed on any given fall Saturday in Baton Rouge.

@CyberTheCyFan Crutchfield #3 and Alexander Robinson needs to be listed.

Top 10 Greatest Iowa State Running Backs: 1. Troy Davis 2. Breece Hall 3. Darren Davis 4. Dexter Green 5. Ennis Haywood 6. David Montgomery 7. Blaise Bryant 8. Dwayne Crutchfield 9. George Amundson 10. Mike Strachan

Congratulations to 2026 HWT NCAA Champion @isaactrumble_ (NC State) on commissioning as a 2LT (USA) today. He was pinned by his father and Medal of Honor Recipient MSG(R) Earl Plumlee. 🇺🇸

In the 1920s, Ford Motor Company generated so much wood scrap from its factories that it turned the waste into charcoal and sold it as Ford Charcoal. The business was later renamed Kingsford Charcoal.

My favorite moment of Kadyn Proctor’s Iowa career was when he entered the transfer portal and committed to Iowa, received $750,000 from SWARM and a Dodge Hellcat and immediately reentered the portal and went back to Bama. Legend

*Proceeds to parade himself around Ames for 3 weeks* If either of these guys are ever invited to an official Iowa State function again it would be a huge mistake.

@_AlexGookin @CycloneKingdom Good list - Archer?

@CycloneKingdom Respectfully, Wallace over Purdy is asinine. My list (acknowledging I'm punting on Amundson because I never watched him play): 1. Purdy 2. Seneca 3. Becht 4. Meyer 5. Rosenfels

Top 5 QBs in ISU FB history: 1. Seneca Wallace 2. Brock Purdy 3. Rocco Becht 4. Bret Meyer 5. Kyle Kempt #5 is a major hot take, but Kempt was the QB for the 2017 team, which imo changed the trajectory of ISU football. He has to be on this list