I took yesterday off on Links For Iowa, so there are quite a few today. There have been quite a few stories out there on Jewel Hampton, but we still don't know much.

Iowa Related

Hlog - Look on the Bright Side
Mike Hlas thinks it could have been much worse than the injury to Jewel Hampton. What if Bulaga, Angerer, Spievey, Donahue, or Stanzi got hurt? Imagine the meltdown then.

Des Moines Register - Hampton jogs up stairs
Apparently Jewel Hampton is okay enough to jog up a small flight of stairs. While this certainly does not mean he is going to be making cut backs and dodging linebackers any time soon, it's definitely not a bad sign.

ESPN - Practice begins August 7
Andy Rittenberg is reporting that the fall Iowa Football practice officially begins on August 7, 2009. That's only 30 days away! The first practice coninsides with Media Day so there should be plenty of things to talk about.

Big Ten Media Day Attendees
The Big Ten Kickoff Luncheon is just 3 weeks away. On July 28th 3 Hawkeyes will make the trip to Chicao to meet with the media. Pat Angerer, A.J. Edds, and Tony Moeaki will represent Iowa Football at the luncheon.

Not even college football related

Google Announces Google Chrome OS
So if you couldn't already tell, I'm a Google fan. For this site, I use blogger, AdSense, Google Analytics, have a GMail account, etc… Well last night, Google announced that they are getting in the opperating system game. They are trying to "re-think what operating systems should be" and make an operating system for "people who live on the web." That sounds good to me!

Google Trends #100

405 Fire
A brush fire near the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles. It's led to a large evacuation. So all you Californians that read this blog (there have been about a dozen hits from the LA area), watch out.