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Fran Fraschilla laughs as he recalls the memory.
The longtime ESPN college basketball analyst and commentator — and Big 12 guru — said there’s no place like Hilton Coliseum when Iowa State is reviving from life support and the crowd roars, the building se...
Cassie Masters was 18 years old when she learned she had a very rare liver condition - a blood clot to be exact.
A few years later, she met her now-fiancé Taylor Hagen, a diehard Iowa State fan, who told her she had to become an Iowa State fan too. It's a go...
Austin McBeth's experience as a student-athlete at Iowa State was perhaps one of the most unique since the turn of the century. Originally a member of Paul Rhoads' football program in the 2010 season, McBeth eventually found his way onto the men's basketball r...
Clayton Custer paused and allowed the question to cycle through his mind.
More than 10 seconds of silence followed the inquiry I had posed to end our phone interview late last week.
“Man, that’s a good question,” Custer, the one-time Cyclone and eventual N...
[Author's's note: Over the next several sports-less weeks, Cyclone Fanatic is re-running many of my "Where Are They Now" features. This one is my first and I throughly enjoyed writing it. Typically, we like to include an update at the end of these reissue...
Alright, this is going to be a quicker article than the first three because I'm a little shorter on time and I'm excited to just get the voting going, which I'll explain fully in a second.
Obviously, this article will be focused on the greatest Iowa State men's basketball g...
At the end of last week, those of us on staff at Cyclone Fanatic were starting to put together a content plan to work our way through the Coronavirus Outbreak and the impending halt of the sports world. We kicked around a lot of ideas, many of them you will se...
With the first Big 12 Tournament of the decade approaching next week, it is as good of time of any to reflect on the previous decade and just how much of a wild ride it was, personified by March runs in Kansas City. In March 2010, Greg McDermott coached a less...
Former Iowa State player/head coach Fred Hoiberg played and coached against Kobe Bryant during his NBA career. Following Sunday's tragedy in Southern California, Chris Williams caught up with "The Mayor" to get his thoughts and memories on competing vs. one of...
Barry Peterson was worried.
So was Paul Gehrke.
The two devoted Iowa State Cyclones fans were roughly 700 miles apart, simultaneously eyeing an ESPN GameDay broadcast from Columbus, Ohio, and didn’t like what the saw.
More precisely: What they didn’t se...
