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Blum: No More One-Night Stands

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Blum: Non Decision Decides Cyclones Fate

A lot will be said about what happened in Ames on Monday night. But where the heck do you even start? Thirty-nine minutes and 50 seconds of perhaps the best basketball game played in Ames in decades was discarded by one feeble non-decision. The last 10 seconds of regulation were a dreaded turn-of-events that will …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: Prime Time for Prime-Time

Hilton Coliseum gets a little extra juice in the rafters when Kansas comes to town. Say what you want about the dudes from Lawrence, but when the crimson and blue step on the floor, everybody ratchets up their intensity a few notches. The fans included. In my 28 years of going to games in Ames, …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: The Mayor and the Bubble Factory

There is a terrifying scene in the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where young Charlie and his Grandpa are caught in the Fizzy Bubble Room. The duo are floating haphazardly upward towards a merciless steel fan that will certainly chop them to pieces. As he is nearing his demise, Charlie yells, "There …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: The Cyclones are feeling the flow

At Fred Hoiberg’s introductory press conference in April of 2010, there were two themes: return Hilton Magic, and play an exciting brand of basketball. Keep in mind, introductory press conferences are often more generic than the latest Nickelback release; everyone wants to protect the home floor and play an engaging style. Even Todd Lickliter assured …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: Another Chapter in Cyclone Pain

Welcome to life as a Cyclone. Iowa State’s 97-89 overtime loss to Kansas was a perfect indoctrination into the hopeful joy and lingering pain that results from wearing the Cardinal and Gold. Unfortunately the latest chapter in Cyclone Nation rug pulling was more agonizing than most of the previous episodes. Iowa State fans are a …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: Big 12 Bulletin, Jan. 3 Edition

Now that we are finally recovered from a football and barbeque hangover in Memphis, it is time to focus on the round-ball. Fred Hoiberg’s bunch enters Big 12 play after wrapping up a temperamental non-conference slate at 10-3. The Cyclones navigated through some uneven play and although they lost a few of the marquee games …

Basketball Men's Sports

Blum: Scouting Clayton Custer

I had the chance to head down to Wells Fargo Arena this weekend to check out 2014 Cyclone commit Clayton Custer and his Blue Valley Northwest squad take on West Des Moines Valley in the Heartland Shootout. It was clear that Custer is the type of guard not seen at Iowa State in a number …

Football

Blum: All In

There have been some legendary Iowa State football teams, but this 2012 version may be the most enjoyable to watch as any of those in the past. They are the epitome of what makes Iowa State University so unique in the first place: unified, gritty and never flashy. This team has pieced together six wins …

Football

Blum: Eight Quarters

One by one, the men in Cyclone sweat-suits hobbled off the bus and into the Austin, Texas airport. It was a mash unit of sorts; each dragging the effects of another Big 12 battle. It became apparent just how grueling of game college football can be. Life is not easy in the Big 12 and …

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Blum: No More One-Night Stands

Blum: Non Decision Decides Cyclones Fate

Blum: Prime Time for Prime-Time

Blum: The Mayor and the Bubble Factory

Blum: The Cyclones are feeling the flow

Blum: Another Chapter in Cyclone Pain

Blum: Big 12 Bulletin, Jan. 3 Edition

Blum: Scouting Clayton Custer

Blum: All In

Blum: Eight Quarters

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