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BLUM: Game on

The 2015 season opener approaches with equal parts excitement and nerves. As the years pass by and months flip quicker than ever, time somehow manages to slow for the first College Football Saturday. It’s been 270 days since Iowa State mercifully ended the 2014 campaign by getting humbled in Ft. Worth 55-3 by the Horned …

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Former Cyclones with NBA decisions

‘Tis the season for professional basketball players to take the next step in their careers. NBA teams are finalizing their respective training camp rosters and that means former Cyclones have to make an educated guess whether they can realistically make an NBA roster or jet overseas and cash a nice-sized paycheck. Here is an update …

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BLUM: Time to go to work

The whirlwind is finally over and now the work begins. Steve Prohm takes control of Cyclone Basketball and all that awaits is arguably the most important 12 months in program history. No big deal. A lot will be made about replacing Fred Hoiberg and Hoiball. It is an impossible shadow to escape, even if Gregg …

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BLUM: The end of Hoiball

When Fred Hoiberg was hired five years ago, my initial reaction was elation. After giving it some thought my prevailing question was, “How in the heck would you ever fire Fred Hoiberg?” That was the state of the Iowa State program at the time, a revolving door of disappointments, players and coaches. During a stretch …

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BLUM: The Mayor’s dilemma

Fred Hoiberg is going to have a decision to make this offseason and every offseason: Stay put at Iowa State or embark on his next chapter in the NBA. It is the number one storyline around Iowa State athletics and I’m sure each one of us has wondered, “When will Fred leave?” It is not …

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BLUM: Scouting the UAB Blazers

The field is set and the next challenge awaits Iowa State on Thursday in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. The Cyclones got matched up with University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) out of Conference USA. The Blazers (19-15) are a young, balanced group that have improved immensely since the start of the year. UAB did not have …

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BLUM: Big 12 Tournament scenarios

Now that we all have taken a deep breath from the Magic of Monday, it seems appropriate to set the stage for the rest of the Big 12 Conference season. The Big 12 has been far away the most entertaining conference this season and the action next week in Kansas City is certain to be …

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BLUM: Bench gunners

The pieces are coming together for Cyclone Basketball. It took three and a half months of trial and error, anxious moments and unfortunate losses to South Carolina and Texas Tech, but here we are in late February and Hoiball is feeling the flow. Everything is back on the table for this bunch and March is …

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BLUM: Always a spectacle

There is a strange phenomenon developing within some segments of the Cyclone fasketball fan-base. Slowly building on the message boards, Twitter-sphere and pockets of Hilton Coliseum is the initial stages of "overbearing parent" syndrome. The basketball program has grown from the plucky renegades of the early Hoiberg years to an established brand with national championship …

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BLUM: Back to the Future

Through the miracle of Google, the software giant occasionally allows me to send emails back to myself at previous stages of life. I could make billions off this technology playing the stock market or saving the world, but instead I focus on more important things. Here is my latest email sent earlier today to my …

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BLUM: Game on

Former Cyclones with NBA decisions

BLUM: Time to go to work

BLUM: The end of Hoiball

BLUM: The Mayor’s dilemma

BLUM: Scouting the UAB Blazers

BLUM: Big 12 Tournament scenarios

BLUM: Bench gunners

BLUM: Always a spectacle

BLUM: Back to the Future

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