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The scoring toss was from 24 yards in the back right corner of the end zone Daniel Murray's PAT was good. Iowa defeated Wisconsin, 20-10.Some reindeer really know how to fly! The Hawkeyes were on the road again. This time the gift was delivered as Iowa converted a seven-yard touchdown pass from Ricky Stanzi to Marvin McNutt, as time expired to defeat Michigan State, 15-13 at Spartan Stadium, and remain undefeated after eight games.The Hawkeyes were forced to come from behind with 92 seconds remaining after Michigan State connected on a 30-yard touchdown pass from Kirk Cousins to Blair White, making it 13-9 with 1:37 left Iowa sneaked out a win at Michigan State, 15-13 Deck the halls with wows, by golly!. Trailing 24-14 in Bloomington, Iowa's dented and bruised signal-caller Ricky Stanzi convened the fourth quarter with touchdown passes of 92 yards to Marvin McNutt and 66 yards to Derrell Johnson-Koulianos The back-to-back aerials catapulted Iowa to its first lead of the day at 28-24 with 11:38 to play.Then, the Hawkeyes were able to extend their margin to 34-24, as Brandon Wegher sprinted untouched into the end zone, stunning the crowd that was undone by this bizarre conclusion to the Halloween spectacle. Wegher added the final blow, with a 27-yard scoring-scamper as the clock ran out, and Iowa defeated Indiana 42-24 in an amazing turnaround Its a marshmallow world....

Once again Big D led the way.Iowa's defense held Minnesota scoreless, granting only 201 yards total offense, including 48 yards on the grounda season-low for an Iowa opponent in 2009.Defense combined with the big black boot kept the Gophers off the board There were more punts in this game (17) than points. Iowa's Ryan Donahue was busy punting nine times for 339 yards (a 37.7-yard average) Iowa took the last game of the season, 12-0 Baby, its cold outside.... Ashura, the most important day in the Shi'ite calendar, was largely peaceful, guarded by a heavy police and army presence three days after a suicide bomber killed 35 pilgrims outside a Baghdad shrine. At processions of thousands at Baghdad's Kadhamiya shrine and at other holy sites in Iraq to mourn the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, men sobbed, cut their scalps with daggers and whipped their backs with chains. The ritual took place under unprecedented security after Sunday's attack, with thousands of police and military out. A road leading to a golden domed Mosque at the north Baghdad shrine, scene of the bloody bomb attack on Sunday, was again spattered with blood but this time it streamed from pilgrims cutting gashes in their heads: a traditional rite of mourning. Thousands chanted "Haider, Haider" another name for Imam Ali, Imam Hussein's father, to commemorate the slaying of his son in the 7th century battle of Kerbala.

Groups of men, some riding horses, dressed up in medieval military outfits with spiked helmets and chainmail to re-enact the battle between followers of Hussein and his enemy Yazid Others waved green and red flags Women wailed. Huge vats of stew steamed over wood fires on the roadside and a canal was died red to symbolise Hussein's blood. Gunmen fired on a procession of Shi'ite pilgrims in southeastern Baghdad's Zaafaraniya district, wounding four. Ashura is the most important and dramatic annual rite distinguishing Shi'ite Muslims from Sunnis and it has become a show of strength for Iraq's long-repressed majority sect.

"In Saddam's time, we were cut off from our history, our culture Now that's changed. Sunni militants have frequently staged attacks on pilgrims, beginning with coordinated suicide bombings in Baghdad and Kerbala during the first post-Saddam Ashura in 2004 that killed more than 160 people and heralded the sectarian bloodshed that ravaged the country in 2006 and 2007. Local officials estimated 1.5 million people marched through the city, about 50,000 of them pilgrims from Shi'ite Iran. Men flailed themselves with chains and adults helped young children, some as young as three, whip their backs with little chains. Arabs and Turkmen in the volatile northern city of Kirkuk also held a march, under watch of Iraqi military helicopters. "Until now, there has been no security breach," said police commander Brigadier-General Adel Zain al-Abideen.