Brent Blum

Blum: How to properly rip the refs

Show up and don’t get arrested. Those are the two basic rules of being a fan; everything else is icing on the cake. Iowa State basketball fans are among the best at both of these qualifications and also receive high marks in picking up the team when they need a lift and rewarding intelligent basketball …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: Basketball Happens

Basketball is a pretty simple game that can be made to look very difficult. For the first time all year at Hilton on Monday night, Iowa State was unable to get into a rhythm and find their way. It was a annoying reminder that becoming an elite team is not a breezy process. The Cyclones …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: Decisions that shaped Hoiball

According to the Internet, the average human makes 35,000 decisions per day. For instance, you made a decision to read this fine piece of copy, which right now you are probably regretting. Most of these decisions are insignificant like trying to decide between watching The Biggest Loser, NCIS or Snooki and Jwoww. But every once …

Basketball Men's Sports

Hilton Magic Forever Changed; Remembering Johnny Orr

It is hard to find the words. Johnny Orr is Cyclone Basketball. He is the father of Hilton Magic. And now he is gone. If you are reading this, Iowa State University has a special place in your life. Iowa State basketball is the part of cold Iowa winters that binds us all together and …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: Iowa State’s NBA mentality

If you have paid attention at all during the nationally televised Iowa State games over the past four years, there are a few storylines that get beaten into the ground. Georges Niang once shot hook shots over Nerlens Noel. Fred Hoiberg was a former ball boy at Iowa State. Melvin Ejim is a great undersized …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: Cy-Hawk Revival

Winters in the state of Iowa can be a truly miserable existence. For all the chatter of how great of place Iowa is to live, when you are unwrapping seven layers of clothes in negative degree weather with a sore back from shoveling the snow the city plow dumped in your driveway, quality of life …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: Hoiball has an Attitude

The other night I was awake into the wee hours of the morning and flipped on the cable box to discover the Keith Olbermann show on ESPN2. Olbermann was part of the ESPN SportsCenter crew that dominated my teenage years in the mid 90’s. Back then, there was only one early morning outlet to gather …

Football

Blum: Thank You Seniors

The Iowa State football roster lists 21 seniors; some of them are household names, others are not. All will be playing their final game under the lights and titanic video board on Saturday night. Men like Jeremiah George, Jeff Woody, Jacques Washington, Deon Broomfield, James White, Shontrelle Johnson, Ernst Brun, Willie Scott, Jansen Watson, Walter …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: November Magic

The Iowa State basketball season gets jump started with a heavy-weight visit from the heralded Michigan Wolverines on Sunday afternoon. It is hard to place a large emphasis on a non-conference game in November, but Sunday’s contest has the makings of an all-timer. Iowa State has never played a home game in November against a …

Football

Blum: Groundhog Day

This season got off on the wrong foot. Iowa State’s first drive against Northern Iowa ended in a missed field goal. They have since had seven more opening drives; none of them have resulted in points. The fits of the offense reminds of the drag racing machines that explode the moment the light turns green. …

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Blum: How to properly rip the refs

Blum: Basketball Happens

Blum: Decisions that shaped Hoiball

Hilton Magic Forever Changed; Remembering Johnny Orr

Blum: Iowa State’s NBA mentality

Blum: Cy-Hawk Revival

Blum: Hoiball has an Attitude

Blum: Thank You Seniors

Blum: November Magic

Blum: Groundhog Day

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