August 11, 2023 News and Notes

• Another seven Iowa and Iowa State athletes were charged with falsifying their identities to place wagers illegally -- some of them on their own games.
• Including the starting running back for Iowa State, Jariehl Block, who was accused of placing over ONE THOUSAND such wagers, including at least three in games he played in.  THIS is the type of player I've been wondering about with the NFL situations -- now you start looking at plays involving him vs. Iowa, Kansas State, and Texas Tech.   
• He joins who would've been the starting quarterback at Iowa State this season, Hunter Dekkers, among the now-14 to be charged.
• Arland Bruce IV of Iowa was the starting wide receiver the last two years, and placed wagers illegally underage through someone else's account in NINETEEN games in which he participated.  He has transferred to Oklahoma State to lose his eligibility.
• Reggie Bracy of Iowa has transferred to Troy to finish his education after prison.  Played 14 games and wagered in two of them in which he played (games with Michigan and South Dakota State).
• Isaiah Lee of Iowa State actually made a money-line wager on Texas to defeat Iowa State in 2021 through his fiancé.  Iowa State won 31-7.
• DeShawn Hanika of Iowa State, Iowa's Jack Johnson, and Iowa State's Jake Remsburg all used their mothers' accounts to bypass situations.
• Former New York Giants player Blake Martinez has been expelled from a trading-card game marketplace site for scamming Pokemon card collectors and players.
• We may have our answer on a striking young track prospect:
• Suriname's Issam Asinga may be disqualified from this year's World Championships due to experimental doping of a metabolism drug.
• Which may well have aided a July 28th time of 9.89 seconds (which would be an under-20 world record) at the South American Championships -- which would make the 18-year-old Asinga the youngest man ever to break 10 seconds at 100 meters...
• He has posted a negative test from that meet -- but the positive for that was a July 18th test which may nullify the time and see him suspended, pending the B result from the July 18th test.
• There is now some rumbling that the Milwaukee Brewers may not be long for Milwaukee.