Sunday Morning Coming Down
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 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
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio Eight years old. Maybe it was seven. Eight seems right for some reason. That’s the first time the thought of my parents dying ever crossed my mind, at least that I can recall.
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio Nothing could represent the futility of the early 90’s Chicago Cubs like a baseball card of a position player forced to pitch in a blowout loss. Behold, the greatest baseball card ever mass
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio Want to win a bar bet sometime in the near future? Wager a beer then ask the following question: Which MLB player had the most hits during the decade of the 1990s? Chances
By Todd Brommelkamp/KGYM Radio IOWA CITY – He was their generation’s Michael and he was gone. As members of the Iowa men’s basketball team sat at a Coralville restaurant Sunday preparing to eat a team dinner the