Up, up and away
If you haven’t seen the majesty of 100 hot air balloons filling the Iowa sky with a cascade of colors on a peaceful summer night, you need to make it [...]
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Posted July 27, 2016in Locker Room
Posted July 20, 2016in Locker Room
Flying low
It’s parade season. Your 1957 Chevy has been in storage for 11 months, and it’s time to bring your prized possession out once again. Those glass packs you worked [...]
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Posted July 13, 2016in Locker Room
Gentlemen, start your… beaks?
Is watching a gaggle of expensive cars driven by multi-millionaires turning left on an oval 200-plus times getting stale? Has the Iditarod simply become a vowel-heavy, embarrassing word (“You did [...]
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Posted July 06, 2016in Locker Room
A run of a different color
When Zac Brown sang about having his toes in the water and ass in the sand, it’s a good bet that he wasn’t envisioning himself doing so on an Iowa [...]
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Posted June 29, 2016in Locker Room
Polo on the Green
Let’s be honest here. Polo is a word that — at least in the prevailing sporting circles in the U.S. — summons thoughts of a Ralph Lauren line of clothing [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Locker Room
Get up, get out
Ah, the beautiful days of July. Temperatures so high that chickens are laying fried eggs and squirrels are fanning their…walnuts. But unless you’re between the ages of 0 and 8 [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Locker Room
Let’s get ready to rumble
Nothing says “Happy Father’s Day” like a pack of 700-horsepower stock cars barreling around a racetrack at 150 mph, the thunder of their collective engines moving innards and eardrums [...]
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Posted June 08, 2016in Locker Room
Gable’s way
You don’t have to be a Frank Sinatra fan to know what Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, a movie and a tub of popcorn, and a pencil and an [...]
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Posted June 01, 2016in Locker Room
A plane and simple pull
A question for the men out there: Are you single, lonely and in need of some attention from the ladies? Are you tired of scouring Craigslist to find your “soul [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Locker Room
The choice is yours: 18 or 18
As Americans, we love choices. Whether it’s in the buffet line, on the couch clicking through channels on a lazy Sunday afternoon or picking out that perfect pair of slacks [...]
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