Another piece of exquisite journalism from Iowa's best sportswriter

Summary: Ricky Stanzi has thrown three interceptions returned for touchdowns. Has that happened before at Iowa? Let's ask George Wine. George Wine doesn't really remember. A list of other quarterbacks who throw interceptions and then a couple quotes about how Iowa is looking to cut down on mistakes. And in closing, Bob Brooks says that people would be mad about it if we weren't 6-0.

This guy gets paid for writing.

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“One of the ongoing stories with the Iowa football team besides its 6-0 record and 10-game winning streak is the rate in which junior quarterback Ricky Stanzi is throwing pick sixes.

That’s the term used to describe when a defender returns an interception for a touchdown."

You see that? You see what he did there? That is a "I need another 15 words to hit my minimum, so I’ll turn one sentence into two by throwing in a semi-obscure term and giving a definition.

I used that technique in sixth grade. Harty still uses it today.

Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.

by Patrick Vint on Oct 16, 2009 10:47 AM CDT reply actions

Pick Sixes

He used that term ten times in the column as well. Absolutely pitiful.

"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me

by BStylin Hawkye on Oct 16, 2009 1:21 PM CDT up reply actions

I used that technique

in Rhetoric. Along with adjusting the margins. The professor was less than impressed.

It never gets to be easy

by chitownhawkeye on Oct 16, 2009 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions

OK

If this is the best sportswriter in Iowa, then who’s the worst sportswriter in Iowa?

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Oct 16, 2009 1:38 PM CDT reply actions

glavin, mm-hey

Brunettes not fighter jets

by rockyh on Oct 16, 2009 2:13 PM CDT up reply actions

Question of the Day: Would Harty be worse

if he was this guy…

Deep down, I think Harty gets he is a no talent ass clown, happy to make a little coin with little to no effort. Jay Mariotti on the other hand lacks all self awareness of his ass clowniness.

Iowa Basketball: We don't rebuild, we implode.

by three and out the kok story on Oct 16, 2009 3:50 PM CDT reply actions

But look at that greasy mullet

Who wouldn’t be into themself with hair like that?

by The Mexican't on Oct 16, 2009 4:00 PM CDT up reply actions

In terms of greasy mullets

Barry Melrose > Jay Mariotti

by Yabbs on Oct 16, 2009 11:57 PM CDT up reply actions

yeah yeah interceptions bad blah blah

But how was the traffic on his morning commute?

by NorseHawk on Oct 16, 2009 5:43 PM CDT reply actions

Pick Six?

I think we should start calling it a Rick-Six.

-Pat Harty

"I'm not doing any good back here."

by Hawkaloogie on Oct 16, 2009 6:03 PM CDT reply actions

Not satirical.

To write about football you have to understand how difficult it is to play football well.

Pat Harty consumes inches in the incredibly shrinking ICPC discussing old guys who are in the wrong lane — as though IC has traffic issues. (See last week.)

I used to love climbing the stairs to the newsroom of the PC, as a boy, when the PC actually lived in downtown IC, in the beautiful downtown moderne structure where people (like Jo Beers, wife of Iowa’s first gold medal wrestling champion) cared about every word, and the pencils and paper and heavy steel desks and deep quiet of people thinking, mattered more than any personal interest. If Harty is good enough for Gannett, and that stupid facility out by the highway, fine, but he’ll be serving sandwiches within 5 years. Sorry. That is one pathetic column. We all move on and we have.

Mr. Boh Knows ...

by Bellanca on Oct 16, 2009 8:07 PM CDT reply actions

In the spirit of Harty's article I'm going to phone in my stupid pic.

By phone in, I mean not actually make it, but describe it ineptly.

A lineup of asian prostitutes numbered 1 through 6. Stanzi in foreground after releasing the football on a pass, appearing to point at prostitute #6. With cheezy punch line in 70’s balloon font “a pick six blows!”

by HawkeyeRecon on Oct 16, 2009 10:56 PM CDT reply actions