By Todd Brommelkamp/1600ESPN CEDAR RAPIDS – Stick around in any business for a quarter of a century and you’ll witness plenty of change. What once worked even as recently as 10 years ago may no longer be
Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio Maybe the wind will be blowing out at Wrigley Field this November when the Iowa football team takes on Northwestern at Wrigley Field. After all, those gales off Lake Michigan have led to some
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio At some point during the 2022 season the Big Ten’s West division devolved into a sportswriter’s fever dream performance of “The Aristocrats.” Purdue is going to Indianapolis. “So – Is that all ya’ got?”
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio — “Every gambler knows That the secret to survivin’ Is knowin’ what to throw away And knowin’ what to keep.” – The Gambler by Don Schlitz — I do not claim to own
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio IOWA CITY – Kirk Ferentz struggled to find the word he was looking for. It was chaperone. He was forgiven by his questioner. After all, it’s not too often the Iowa head coach
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio There’s a highly-coveted position soon to become available on the staff of a National Football League team. It could be that of position coach or perhaps in a team’s player personnel department and
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio INDIANAPOLIS – Michigan played for a Big Ten title Saturday night inside Lucas Oil Stadium. Iowa, by Kirk Ferentz’s admission, played for field position. Is that harsh? Not any more so than the
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio “The Truth! You can’t handle the truth!” – Col. Nathan Jessep It’s Monday afternoon, almost two full days since then-No. 2 Iowa lost to Purdue in Iowa City, and it’s time to level
[Full Disclosure: Roy Marble was an avid listener to my various radio shows and late in his life I came to know him personally. I grew up idolizing him and other members of the 1986-1987 Iowa men’s
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio After 30 minutes of searching, I found the photo. Of course, it wasn’t where I thought it was. Having thought I’d just seen it, I rummaged through piles of papers and boxes of
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