Audi Crooks
Friday night, Iowa State's Audi Crooks scored 40 points, leading Iowa State to a comeback 93-86 win over Maryland in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.…
Meandering Thoughts #20
My name Scott Sosna is not common, largely because Sosna is not very common in the US: the only other person I know of is a financial advisor in New…
Random Learnings #26
In the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, the first two rounds are hosted by top-four regional seeds. Though not guaranteed, the home court advantage does increase teams' chances of making it…
Big Ten’s Epic Fail
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed attending the 2023 women's basketball tournament at Target Center in Minneapolis. Great basketball, knowledgeable fans, and a smackdown victory by Iowa over Ohio State…
Meandering Thoughts #19
This overtime made possible by Progressive Insurance .... Really? Perhaps I'm naive or uninformed, but fairly sure overtime would have been played regardless of Progressive Insurance's sponsorship. Even if no…
Meandering Thoughts #18
My wife and I are attending the 2024 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament at Target Center in Minneapolis. I highly recommend it, this is our second year attending, and surprised…
Snow, Snow Days and Football
Minnesota's reputation for brutal winters is not completely unjust: obscenely-cold temperatures (that's actual not windchill), blizzards which stop (almost) everything, winters where new snow fall is constant and the shoveling…
Meandering Thoughts #16
Team Viewer is, for the third season running, Manchester United's kit sponsor, but only today realized how appropriate: Manchester United's poor defensive record and Team Viewer's dubious security track record.…
Growing Iowa Women’s Basketball
In 1983, I matriculated at the University of Iowa to study computer science. Also in 1983, C. Vivian Stringer was hired as head coach for the University of Iowa women's…
The Citizenship Games
Military battles and wars aside, success in international athletic competitions is often viewed as increasing pride in one's nation. It's all for the sake of the nation, at least as…