Archive for February, 2009
Spring Has Sprung/Marty Tirrell
March Madness is just about upon us. We’re off to see the wizard on the Kentucky Derby trail. Spring training baseball is under way. Once again, a big thanks to Steve Luebke at Toyota of Des Moines as they will Title Sponsor the Marty and Miller KXNO road show at the Missouri [...]
LIVE AT THE GAME: Iowa Energy/Courtside-Marty Tirrell
Wells Fargo Arena- Sioux Falls in town tonight for key Central Division game…
Energy head coach Nick Nurse has had problems in the past with referee Eric dalen the crew chief tonight…Dalen has been working in the NBA this year….keep an eye/ear on this scenario tonight …
Marvin Phillips out tonight for Energy (sprained knee); Kasib Powell [...]
Harrison Barnes on Channel 8/KCCI Tonight
Early in last Friday’s game at Hoover High School, it became strikingly clear to me and others that Harrison Barnes gets “star treatment” from the officials. The Ames Little Cyclone junior sensation doesn’t need pampering from the guys in the stripes. He’s head and shoulders above his competition night in and night out.
As [...]
On Golf/Marty Tirrell
I’ll take a serious stab at Sunday Acdenture Match-play final on NBC. Tiger Woods versus Anthony Kim.
Kim is a +1200 on allhorseracing.com’s Sportsbook this morning. I think he wins it!
Kim, playing out of the Sam Snead bracket as the #3 seed, has watched both the #1 and #2 seed in his bracket get dusted in [...]
Morning news
Same old song
Former Valley, Roosevelt, and current Iowa wrestler Montell Marion met with law enforcement again this past weekend. For those keeping score Marion has been arrested or faced arrest 4 times in the past 4 years. Four strikes and the kid is still on scholarship at Iowa.
Marion got into trouble this past weekend for [...]
