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Season Preview: CF Mailbag

By Chris Williams, CycloneFanatic.com PublisherFollow Chris on Twitter @ChrisMWilliams We’re nearing the end of our content items that preview the 2011-12 Iowa State men’s basketball season here at CycloneFanatic.com. Brent Blum and I plan on recording a podcast tonight where predictions will be made. Today, it’s a special edition, basketball-only edition of the CF Mailbag. …

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Football

Monday Musings: 11-7 Edition

By Chris Williams, CycloneFanatic.com PublisherFollow Chris on Twitter @ChrisMWilliams The past weekend in Iowa State athletics was an underwhelming one. I expected to write this week’s Monday Musings coming off of a 20-plus point win over Kansas in football and a nasty exhibition beat down of Grand Valley State in hoops. Neither happened but as …

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Football

Williams: Kansas postgame awards

By Chris Williams, CycloneFanatic.com PublisherFollow Chris on Twitter @ChrisMWilliams Iowa State’s 13-10 victory over the pesky Kansas Jayhawks didn’t knock the socks off of the 51,575 fanatics who piled into Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday. Last week’s win in Lubbock was impressive. The Cyclones looked sloppy on Saturday. But is there really such thing as …

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Football

Blum: Puzzle Solved

By Brent Blum, CycloneFanatic.com ColumnistFollow Brent on Twitter @BrentBlum To quote the always quotable Tommy Callahan, "I’ve seen a lot of stuff in my life, but that was awesome!" Call it what you want: a Paul Rhoads special, a domination, a beat-down. The only thing that was missing was Iowa State pulling a Shaq on …

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Football

Blum: Big 12 Blitzkrieg

By Brent Blum, CycloneFanatic.com ColumnistFollow Brent on Twitter @BrentBlum I’m not even mad, this is amazing. We are smack-dab in the middle of the best offensive season by a conference in college football history. The Big 12 is generating numbers at a pace that is truly incomprehensible. The stats are so engorged that even Barry …

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