NYT on C. Vivian Stringer, Iowa State’s Bill Fennelly March 24, 2008
Posted by John in Sports.Tags: Ames (Iowa), basketball, Basketball Coaches, Bill Fennelly, C. Vivian Stringer, Des Moines (Iowa), Iowa State University Cyclones, NCAA Tournament, University of Iowa Hawkeyes, Vivian Stringer, Women's Basketball
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From New York Times:
Wherever he goes, from Algona to Zwingle, Fennelly is following the path blazed by C. Vivian Stringer. She built the University of Iowa women’s program into a national title contender and an attendance leader in the 1980s before leaving to coach the Rutgers women in 1995.
On Monday night, their paths will converge for only the second time since Stringer left Iowa and since Fennelly, a native Iowan, returned. …
“When the brackets came out, one of the very first things I heard was excitement that we were in and that Coach Stringer was coming back to Iowa,” Fennelly said Sunday. “She has a great amount of respect, and deservedly so.” …
E. Iowa native Ashton Kutcher stars in new Nikon ads March 24, 2008
Posted by John in Advertising, Business, Entertainers.Tags: Actors, Ashton Kutcher, Cameras, Models, Nikon
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Advertisements to begin appearing Tuesday, March 25. Here’s a link to the Ashton Kutcher video ad. Guess you’ll have to sit through a shorter ad before the featured ad. USA Today description:
Ad Track: Nikon Coolpix S550
Mar. 24- Ashton Kutcher stars in new Nikon ads that start Tuesday. The actor’s digital camera is taken for a spin around the department store as he tries on clothes.
Gordon Fischer apologizes for reference to ‘Monica’s blue dress’ March 24, 2008
Posted by John in Political.Tags: 2008 election, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Gordon Fischer, hillary clinton, hillary rodham clinton, Iowa Democratic Party, Monica Lewinsky
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From USA Today blog:
Former Iowa Dem. Party chief apologizes for blog post mention of ‘Monica’s blue dress’
Things that Bill Clinton has said recently about the presidential race have left a “stain on his legacy, much worse, much deeper, than the one on Monica’s blue dress,” Gordon Fischer, a former director of the Iowa Democratic Party, wrote at his Iowa True Blue blog on Sunday, ABC News’ Political Punch reported earlier today.The Clinton campaign, in a conference call it just held with reporters, has condemned the remark — and Fischer has now removed it from his blog and inserted this apology. His analogy was “tasteless and gratuitous,” Fischer writes. …
Sports Illustrated opens 54-year Vault; 2,853 articles, 117 photos, 23 galleries, 5 covers with ‘Iowa’ March 24, 2008
Posted by John in History, Publications, Sports.Tags: 1959, Calvin Jones, cnn, Content, iowa, Magazine Archives, Rose Bowl, SI Vault, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated Vault, Time Warner, University of Iowa Hawkeyes
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The free Sports Illustrated Vault was made available online Thursday evening. Here is a direct link to the ‘iowa’ search that resulted in those hits.
You can narrow a search by decade. Here are results for the 1950s only, including the September 27, 1954 cover [IMAGE] featuring football guard Calvin Jones of the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Also, there’s a high flying bird’s-eye view of the 1959 Rose Bowl [PHOTO], where Iowa won against California, 38-12.
