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The series between the Timberwolves and the Nuggets went from potential beat down to one of the most unpredictable and exciting events we've seen in the NBA this season, as the Nuggets put up 3 consecutive wins and the Timberwolves put up one of the most dominant games in the history of the NBA playoffs. The Twins went from being one of the hottest teams in baseball to going ice cold after onl...

For the first time in forever, we have an NBA second round without the likes of Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, or Lebron James. Instead we usher in a new generation of stars, led by MVP Nikola Jokic and the offensive face of the Timberwolves, Anthony Edwards. ESPN released their way too early rankings for men's and women's college basketball, and naturally that means we have to start drawing c...

The Minnesota Twins are officially the hottest team in the MLB whilst playing what is arguably the most stacked division in baseball, something that nobody expected. Their good luck charm is a bit unusual, and perhaps a bit unsanitary, according to manager Rocco Baldelli. The Minnesota Timberwolves have accomplished the first playoff sweep in franchise history, and in the process they proved that...

The NFL Draft begun last night and made the usual headlines regarding who was drafted first, which quarterbacks went in which order, where the top wide receiver went, among others. Additionally, it also was among the most heavily offensive first rounds on record, tying the most ever offensive players in the first round and the fastest the top five quarterbacks have ever been taken. The NBA playoff...

Once again, the actions of politicians and bureaucrats have impacted the world of collegiate athletics. Naturally, we have to address the topic and explain what we think is going to happen next, not only to women's sports, but to men's sports as well. The NBA Play In Tournament is ongoing, and the Chicago Bulls won the first game that they needed to in order to make it to the playoffs. In...

The season is over for both Iowa State men's and women's basketball after losses in the Sweet Sixteen and the round of 32 respectively. The feeling around each of these losses is very different, with the men not meeting expectations and the women exceeding them. We talk about what went wrong at TD Garden in the game against Illinois. Yesterday was opening day for Major League Baseball, and...

The Cyclones dispatched South Dakota State last night by a 17 point margin of victory, advancing to the second round where they will face the Washington State cougars. This may be an optimal matchup for the Cyclones stylistically, and we explain why. The Cyclone women begin their tournament run tonight in a game against Maryland at Stanford's home gym. Expect a lot of offense, defense that is...

Tournament time is upon us. We have completed the various conference tournaments, with plenty of things to talk about for Iowa State. In women's basketball we're Big 12 runners-up and in men's basketball and wrestling we have reclaimed our spots as champions. The Big 12 runs through Ames. We analyze the positions of both the men's and women's teams in their respective brackets,...

Our Iowa State Cyclones have accomplished a feat not done for a generation - men's basketball completed their home games this season without losing any of them. The atmosphere for this feat was incredible, and Matt's gotta tell you about just how insanely loud it got in that building on Wednesday Wrestling is entering its most intense part of the season as the Big 12 tournament begins tomo...

Iowa State wrestling will close their season against Big 12 rival Mizzou, and this dual includes massive top ten matchups at both 165 lbs and at heavyweight. Undefeateds Yonger Bastida and Zach Elam will contend for the 285 Big 12 regular season crown while David Carr and Keegan O'Toole will have a long awaited rematch of the 2023 NCAA Title at 165 lbs. Iowa State basketball recreated what it...

Today, another college baseball season begins, and another season begins without the Iowa State Cyclones competing for a division I title, but for the first time on opening day, at least we have an alternative option. We have Iowa State softball, and particularly Lea Nelson to thank for that. Chiefs Kingdom reigns for the next year, as Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, and Clark Hunt hoisted the Lombard...

This is the fixed version of the super bowl preview episode

Hilton Magic claimed two more victims in the last week, first the Kansas Jayhawk men falling to our beloved Cyclones, then in the women's midweek game our ladies completed a season sweep of the Oklahoma State Cowgirls The Super Bowl is set, the two teams that made it are the two teams that deserve to have made it, our thoughts on how the rosters compare, the differences between the skill playe...

K-State coach Jerome Tang sure seemed mad about something during Wednesday night's game in Hilton Coliseum, but is there really anything besides awful officiating that he should have been mad at? Accusations ran rampant, the rumor mill on twitter is full of nonsense, and Sports Illustrated and CBS have both ran stories that have debatable veracity about why Tang was so heated. The Milwaukee Bu...

The biggest news in the sports world at the moment might be that Amazon just invested a minority stake into Diamond Sports Group, who owns the broadcast rights to 15 NBA, 11 NHL, and 11 MLB teams Men's and women's basketball each had high and low points in the last week with statement wins and heartbreaking midweek losses as the teams prepare to bounce back. Women's basketball earned a...

Upset week has arrived in college basketball, and there's a lot of chaos to break down both in men's and women's ball as the competitive parity of the Big 12 makes itself increasingly apparent. Don't forget about the players that don't necessarily fill up the stat sheet with mind blowing numbers. Robert Jones against Houston and Kelsey Joens against West Virginia played key rol...

Matt's less than happy about the result of the Liberty Bowl game after the loss to Memphis, which is to be expected. He's also significantly less happy about the way the bowl game was ran, with Iowa State being treated as a true road team as opposed to the neutral site that a bowl game is supposed to be. Cyclone basketball begins its grueling conference slate, with the men preparing for th...

Matt has a message for his fellow Kansas City Chiefs fans. Two things can be true at once. Yes, 9 times out of 10 players will not be called offsides for being lined up in the same place that Kadarius Toney was. It was still the correct call. It was selective enforcement. If you're going to complain, at least make the right complaint. The Wild have been wild, as their program appears to have c...

December 7, roughly 8:30 PM. Iowa State has obliterated the team out east in the Cy-Hawk men's basketball game, so much so that ESPN's announcer says that Hilton Magic gave way to the Hilton Massacre. That is what the 600th win in Hilton Coliseum shall be known as for all time. Don't forget that earlier in the day ISU alum Tyrese Haliburton led the Indiana Pacers to a NBA In Season Tou...

The college football bowl game schedule has been released, so Matt, Blake, and Vinnie make their picks for every game, and discuss all 43 matchups as they go, placing plenty of time on our boys in the cardinal and gold, as well as why the team out east is going to lose and how Florida State will get retribution for being snubbed by the College Football Playoff committee. Give the Cornfield Sports...

Matt and Blake promise they won't be total downers for this entire episode, the Cyclones had some wins on the basketball court and we'll get into those, and of course the boys are happy about how Farmageddon played out Abu Sama is a stud and if the NFL scouts weren't watching him closely before they better be now because he's gonna be getting a lot of gridiron time next year Volley...

One glorious weekend remains in college football's regular season before we enter the also glorious conference championship season and the (shocker) glorious bowl season, and our beloved Cyclones face down Kansas State in our most historic and newly unprotected rivalry The tides are turning in the NFL with the Broncos and the Packers on the rise while we see teams like the Detroit Lions and Ka...

This week's episode Matt and Blake dig into fighting in athletics, why your typical hockey fight is perfectly acceptable, and look at a few examples of when athletic fighting gets too dirty. They start to dig into the NBA's in season tournament standings as group play continues to move along, as well as the Bulls' shakiness and how it can continue to get worse Offseason news has alread...

Buckle up, because after a few weeks of covering the Cyclones, it finally became necessary for Matt to call the Big 12 to action on officiating integrity after the Jaylin Noel debacle against Kansas. Blake has all the recruiting info from national signing day this last Wednesday for all of your Cyclone sports, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, and softball all got great names to their rosters nex...

The Big 12 seriously messed up its upcoming football schedules for the next 4 years, so badly in fact that it seems to have angered every fanbase in the conference Cyclone football looks to maintain its status as a contender at the top of the conference, and in order to do that we need to defeat the dangerous Kansas Jayhawks in prime time at the Jack Iowa State women's basketball has finally g...