I, as an Eastern Iowan and a Man who spent a chunk of his Adult Life Living, Working and Working With the Southeast Side of Cedar Rapids, doesn't see anything funny with the permenant liquidation of Cedar Rapids Washington's Golden Pond District Streak at 53 ending this weekend.
Nationally, it is not a shock, and even less of a thrill. And, even less of a shremp that programs that didn't have Swimming in 1992 lap Washington and Jefferson, much less lap the Coast to Coast Focus on the City. (Even though I'd outstretch it from then, but, it is for the pure Sportsmen and Women, even with no Internet or Cable from now or then.)
I feel maddened Eastern Iowa School Sports is going into a receding period. And, the earthiness and the nerviness doesn't add a dollar or a thing to our problems. And, I wonder, looking back on 2017 from the end of the year, losing O'Rien Vance to Iowa State, the District Pond Streak, and the City in Football the matter that it went down would be 1-2-3 in Cedar Rapids, Eastern Iowa, and Iowa Sports, if not nationally.
Granted, the 1st would be a bit extreme, because it is a coup and a big deal if Iowa State gets a proper Cedar Rapids-Iowa City recruit from Iowa's grips, but, we had not seen Prairie get in full sprint of State Championships Yet, nor wondering if depth really was a year by year thing, much less a rumor.
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