Mike Hlas

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.'

Just like gluten-free vaping, Fun Facts is one of the hottest fads on both coasts. Now it’s caught on in …

Hlastradamus isn’t perfect. Once he thought he was wrong. But he wasn’t. The prophet kids you mortals. Last week, in …

It’s Wednesday morning and I have sports writer’s block, so here are a few random thoughts and then we can …

I watched parts of four NFL games on Sunday and Monday. Which means I saw commercials for DraftKings and FanDuel. …

Week 2. The Big Ten went 12-2 against the world. It beat Oregon. And Indiana State, Florida International, Western Illinois, …

So Iowa has successfully handled a pair of ISUs. Now can the Hawkeyes finish off a September sweep? Before the …

AMES — What you have, Iowa, is a quarterback. More precisely, what you Hawkeyes have is a football player playing …

It was an entertaining half, no? Plenty of stellar stuff, plenty of unusual stuff. A fake field goal by Iowa …