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Manning, Giants lead Eagles 20-17 at halftime
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Quad City Times - PHILADELPHIA - Eli Manning threw two TD passes and John Carney kicked two field goals to give the NFC East-leading New York Giants a 20-17 lead over the Philadelphia Eagles at halftime on Sunday night....
Iowa football: Saturday’s game notes
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Des Moines Register - A look at the Penn State game....
Hawkeyes upset No. 3 Penn State, 24-23
Found: 1 Week 6 Days 9 Hours 18 Minutes ago
Iowa City Press Citizen - The Iowa Hawkeyes pull off the upset of the season by beating Penn State on national television....
Authorities find body of missing Clarinda man
Found: 2 Weeks 3 Days 18 Hours 22 Minutes ago
Sioux City Journal - CLARINDA, Iowa (AP) -- Authorities in southwest Iowa say they have discovered the body of a missing Clarinda man in a rural area near Mount Ayr....
Bironas Keeps Titans Unbeaten With OT Field Goal
Found: 2 Weeks 5 Days 51 Minutes ago
KCCI 8 News - Rob Bironas kicked a 41-yard field goal 5:24 into overtime to keep the Tennessee Titans unbeaten with a 19-16 victory over the Green Bay Packers at LP Field....
Dollar bucking worldwide downturn
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Telegraph Herald - Investors help the greenback snap a six-year slide, but is that a good thing? BY STEVENSON JACOBS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS...
This loss especially heartbreaking
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The Gazette - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. and#8212; For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' and#8212; John Greenleaf Whittier, 19th Century American Quaker poet and college football fanIowa football in 2008: It might have been, it might have been, it might have been ...Since the 2005 season, Iowa has lost nine straight games decided by three points or less. Three of those have come this year. The most wrenching was the 27-24 loss Saturday the Hawkeyes endured to Illinois in Memorial Stadium.Iowa's other defeat this year was by five points. That's four defeats by a total of 12 points. Twelve measly points stood in the way of this Saturday's Penn State-Iowa game being a battle of unbeatens that would have been the biggest game involving Hawkeye football since the Michigan-Iowa classic of 1985.But that's just a statistic. We all know the difference between 5-4 Iowa and 9-0 Iowa is far wider than a dozen points. Still, had the Hawkeyes just performed with a little better execution in the red zone, had it not missed a 30-yard field goal in the second quarter, had it made one big defensive play on Illinois' final drive ... there's no "might" about it. It would have been an Iowa win.This loss veered from the more-mundane scripts of the other three defeats. This featured a stirring, redemptive fourth-quarter rally after three quarters of missed opportunities teamed with an early fourth-quarter fumble by quarterback Ricky Stanzi to put the Hawkeyes in a 24-9 hole.But at day's end the refrains from Coach Kirk Ferentz were the same he stated after losses to Pittsburgh, Northwestern and Michigan State.Like: "I see a lot of positives by the team, the way we responded, the way we fought, the way we competed."And: "We've got to keep pushing, learning from situations, keep pushing forward."The repetition would be tiresome, except the Hawkeyes did just what Ferentz said after their three-game skid of midseason. They learned, they pushed forward, and they pushed around Indiana and Wisconsin. This was a coin-flip of a game on the road against a good team and a very skilled quarterback, and Juice Williams made throw after throw on Illinois' most-important drive of the day. Then a freshman named Matt Eller made a 46-yard field goal.If you want to call the Hawkeyes bums for losing a game like this, your heart is a stone.But if you want to say this is a program that still isn't clued in regarding how to win tight games, you're just stating a fact."What I do see is our team is resilient," said magnificent senior Iowa defensive tackle Mitch King. "We keep bouncing back. We do correct certain things. ... We came back in the fourth quarter."We do some good things. We keep on progressing throughout the game. That's pretty exciting to be a part of. I'm proud to be on this team, that's for sure."It's not a dispirited, disjointed squad. It's just one that still has a few growing pains that can be pretty painful in challenging situations. Stanzi was marvelous on the two fourth-quarter touchdown drives that turned a seemingly hopeless predicament into a 24-24 tie. But he also played like a first-year starter in a truly hostile environment against a truly hostile defense.Stanzi never saw the blitz that removed him from the ball at the Iowa 7 and gave a touchdown to the Illini defense. Cornerback Dere Hicks breezed past Iowa running back Shonn Greene not only to slap the ball from Stanzi's arm, but to pick it up and trot into the end zone.Few teams win games after surrendering such scores. Stanzi may never be victimized like that again in his college career. But with his promise and playmaking have also come gaffes largely rooted in inexperience, errors that stung in close games. The comeback he directed was something very good to take home. The 11 of 29 passing day, the two interceptions, many of the six sacks he took, the critical fumble? Not so great.But the rally from despair that Stanzi led? Really good."We don't like moral victories," Stanzi said. "At the same time, it is what it is."Though Ferentz and every coach in all of sports would disagree, Iowa now has a one-game season. That game is Saturday, at home, on national television, against a Penn State team trying to line itself up for a spot in the national championship game.Beat the Nittany Lions, and the Hawkeyes have something to savor through the winter, across next spring, and over next summer.It tells America they're good again. It tells themselves the progress they've made this year is tangible. It dwarfs their record over 12 games no matter how the rest of the season goes.Lose, and Iowa is 5-5 overall and 2-4 in the Big Ten, and must scrap just to go to a bowl of little renown.But if the Hawkeyes do fall to Penn State, it might be best if they do so by more than three points....
Trojans rumble, 53-7
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Oskaloosa Herald - A big first quarte allowed Tri-County to down Ankeny Christian Wednesday night....
Eagles soar past Ogden, 58-13
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Oskaloosa Herald - Pella CHristian made its first-ever appearance in postseason play a success in beating Ogden....
Little Dutch knock off Indians
Found: 3 Weeks 1 Day 4 Hours 35 Minutes ago
Oskaloosa Herald - It just wasn?t Oskaloosa?s night while Pella had things going its way when the teams met in a Class 3A substate contest Wednesday night....
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