No. 17 Kansas State battles No. 22 Iowa State in one of the biggest Week 0 matchups in recent memory. The clash between the two teams takes place as part of the Aer Lingus College Football Classic at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, and marks the first FBS game of the 2025 college football season. The Cyclones stormed to a …
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Will Trump Send Troops To Chicago? City, State Leaders Call Threat An ‘Authoritarian Power Grab’
CITYWIDE — President Donald Trump on Friday said Chicago is his next target as he deploys the National Guard to resistant cities, but Mayor Brandon Johnson said the move would be illegal — and completely unnecessary. Trump deployed 2,000 armed National Guard troops to patrol Washington, D.C., earlier this month, saying the move will reduce crime and homelessness. But the …
Read More »Sports Illustrated Predicts Penn State Will Win College Football National Title
Are we doing this? Really doing this? Sigh, fine. Open the airplane door and let’s jump out. And hope the blue-and-white parachute opens. Sports Illustrated is doing the most dangerous thing college football prognosticators can do. We are picking Penn State to win the national championship. O.K., it’s not as rash as picking Kent State or Kennesaw State. This is …
Read More »College football Week 0 picks against the spread: Iowa State-Kansas State highlights opening games
Football is nearly here. The college football season kicks off with its soft-launch Week 0 on Saturday. Usually, Week 0 is for the true sickos of the sport who are eagerly awaiting the return of any competitive football, but this year, there’s a top-25 matchup headlining the small slate of games. No. 17 Kansas State and No. 22 Iowa State …
Read More »BSD Predictions Roundtable: Penn State Football’s 2025 Season Record
It’s here! The college football season is upon us! Week Zero kicks off in a little over 24 hours, giving us the appetizer to the full season starting a week later. In preparation, the BSD staff got together for the annual season predictions. As always, this is a prediction of the regular season record, anything beyond is an added bonus! …
Read More »Iowa State and Kansas State Set to Open NCAA Football Season in Ireland – Uni Watch
Iowa State and Kansas State Set to Open NCAA Football Season in Ireland Uni Watch Matchup in Ireland is among the last for the Farmageddon football rivalry ESPN Pick Six Previews: Kansas State the favorite over Iowa State in early playoff stakes game KSL.com College football Week 0 picks against the spread: Iowa State-Kansas State highlights opening games The New York Times Kansas State …
Read More »‘Tragic’ tour bus crash halts traffic on New York State Thruway in WNY
by WHAM Fri, August 22nd 2025 at 1:11 PM Updated Fri, August 22nd 2025 at 2:00 PM A traffic camera pointing west from Exit 48A on the New York State Thruway in Pembroke shows a backup in the westbound lanes following a tour bus crash in the eastbound lanes Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (Photo courtesy ofNew York State Department of …
Read More »Skull Session: Five Ohio State Players Appear in ESPN’s Top 100 Players Entering 2025, Four Buckeyes Rank in Dane Brugler’s Top 50 2026 NFL Draft Prospects
Welcome to the Skull Session. Will Lathan Ransom be one of the steals of the draft? I think yes. Lathan Ransom pic.twitter.com/qKOvxSZd25 — Eleven Warriors (@11W) August 22, 2025 Have a good Friday. THE BEST OF THE BEST. This week, six ESPN college football staff writers (Bill Connelly, David Hale, Adam Rittenberg, Chris Low, Jake Trotter and Paulo Uggetti) compiled …
Read More »The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2025 Minnesota State Fair
We came. We saw. We ate. We wrote notes like “weird aftertaste” and “I hate this” and “unnervingly flaccid.” And now, we bring you this: the definitive guide to the official new foods and vendors of the 2025 Minnesota State Fair. As always, we’ve evaluated the new fair foods according to our peerless, pitiless Scarf!, Shrug, Skip system. (Accept no …
Read More »California State Assembly approves redistricting plan
As California and Texas scramble to redraw U.S. House maps before the 2026 midterm elections, the race is underlining redistricting’s big role in determining political power. Texas took action after President Donald Trump directed Republican-controlled states to change where the district lines are drawn based on where the population is likely to vote Republican – a practice known as partisan …
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