Monday Movements: A lot of links from a lot of stories in the past week

I had a busy week as crossover season hit a fever pitch (Iowa State football, men's basketball, women's basketball and wrestling). Plus a pod soon to come.

What a week. Or ten days. Or, whatever, in the words of Iowa State 149-pound wrestler, Casey Swiderski, after No. 8 Iowa State lost to No. 4 Iowa, 18-14, in Sunday’s Cy-Hawk dual meet at Hilton Coliseum.

I’ll have plenty to say about football after the transfer portal cools, but one of the players who leaped into it initially surprised anyone around the program. The men’s basketball team absorbed two rough losses at the ESPN Events Invitational near Orlando, Fla., in recent days, but they should be fine as the players get to know each other better on the floor against actual competition.

All of that said, please find links to my recent stories (below). I’ll do another podcast again soon, as well, and I’ll be covering the next ISU men’s basketball game Friday night against DePaul in Chicago.

FOOTBALL

Radio recap of 42-35 2in over then-No. 19 Kansas State: https://cyclonefanatic.com/2023/11/big-play-cyclones-never-flinch-in-42-35-road-win-over-no-19-kansas-state/

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2023/11/rocco-bechts-ability-to-work-through-hard-things-helps-boost-iowa-states-hopes-saturday-at-no-19-kansas-state/

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2023/11/jeremiah-coopers-return-helps-buoy-iowa-states-hopes-saturday-at-no-19-kansas-state/

MEN’S BASKETBALL

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2023/11/isu-pg-tamin-lipsey-expecting-big-things-from-his-team-in-the-espn-events-invitational/

WRESTLING

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2023/11/missed-opportunities-frame-no-8-iowa-states-cy-hawk-wrestling-dual-loss-to-no-4-iowa/

https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/11518847-its-cy-hawk-week-let-the-circus-begin-cyclone-insider

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Nicole Baart: This Stays Here, Sioux Center

Ray Young Bear: From Red Earth Drive, Meskwaki Settlement

Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin, Windsor Heights

Doug Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll

Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des Moines

Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, Roundup

Steph Copley: It Was Never a Dress, Johnston

Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook, Storm Lake

Suzanna de Baca: Dispatches from the Heartland, Huxley

Debra Engle: A Whole New World, Madison County

Arnold Garson: Second Thoughts, Okoboji and Sioux Falls

Julie Gammack: Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck, Des Moines and Okoboji

Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames

Jody Gifford: Benign Inspiration, West Des Moines

Rob Gray: Rob Gray’s Area, Ankeny

Nik Heftman: The Seven Times, Los Angeles and Iowa

Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilia

Chris Jones, Chris’s Substack, Des Moines

Pat Kinney: View from Cedar Valley, Waterloo

Fern Kupfer: Fern and Joe, Ames

Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey

Letters from Iowans, Iowa

Darcy Maulsby: Keepin’ It Rural, Calhoun County

Tar Macias: Hola Iowa, Iowa

Alison McGaughey, The Inquisitive Quad Citizen, Quad Cities

Kurt Meyer: Showing Up, St. Ansgar

Wini Moranville: Wini’s Food Stories, Des Moines

Jeff Morrison: Between Two Rivers, Cedar Rapids

Kyle Munson: Kyle Munson’s Main Street, Des Moines

Jane Nguyen: The Asian Iowan, West Des Moines

John Naughton: My Life, in Color, Des Moines

Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger, Jefferson and Des Moines

Barry Piatt: Piatt on Politics Behind the Curtain, Washington, D.C.

Dave Price: Dave Price’s Perspective, Des Moines

Macey Shofroth: The Midwest Creative, Norwalk

Larry Stone: Listening to the Land, Elkader

Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona

Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices, Kalona

Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County

Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport

Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines

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