Mike Hlas

IOWA CITY – Iowa’s C.J. Beathard completed all 14 of his passes in the half for 2xx yards. The Hawkeyes …

Iowa is paying North Texas $900,000 to play football at Kinnick Stadium Saturday. In 2016, Iowa will pay Miami (Ohio) …

You saw the headline. North Texas is No. 146. That’s according to Jeff Sagarin, the mastermind of the Sagarin Ratings …

I bought a ‘smart TV” last week. That’s kind of like ‘jumbo shrimp” and ‘plastic silverware,” isn’t it? Oxymorons, I …

Hlastradamus doesn’t focus well in the summer. He gets distracted by the 500-year-old girls in their summer clothes in the …

Derrick Willies is going long this season. A lot. Willies’ Trinity Valley Community College football team in Athens, Texas, has …

Monday was the last night of summer of Cedar Rapids. Maybe the calendar says that is tonight, but baseball fans …

Listening to Dan McCarney on a teleconference Monday after not having been around him for several years, you wouldn’t have …

Quantifying the most-important victories of one thing or another isn’t hard. It’s what the wins meant in the context of …

The Big Ten went 9-3 in nonconference football games Saturday. But it went 4-8 against the point spread in those …

IOWA CITY – Moments like Saturday night’s at Kinnick Stadium, these are why football fans stay football fans. Every so …

IOWA CITY – You can choreograph great pregame visuals like black-and-gold stripes in the stands. You can create a pregame …

Iowa is a 5- to 5.5-point favorite depending where you shop. Here’s how the nation’s predictors view it: ESPN’s 6-person …

Let’s give Iowa and Pittsburgh credit for scheduling four football games with each other in an 8-year period, with the …

This week's Mike Hlas Podcast is with Gilbert Gaul, the author of 'Billion Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football.'