Iowa

while listening to Zabel on the radio, he was usually a full play behind what was actually happening on the field.

For some reason, Iowa loves bad sportscasters. Zabel, Bob Brooks (who apparently thought the Michigan team's name was the "wolves&quot and the worst of all, Frosty Mitchell. Mitchell -- who was also Bob Ray's first campaign manager -- once interviewed Ray, his wife and daughter at halftime of a high school basketball championship game. It went like this:

"I'm talking with Governor Bob Ray, his lovely wife Billie, and their oldest daughter Randi. Randi is 13 and in the 8th grade. Tell me Randi, how old are you?"