Mike Hlas

DES MOINES — Let’s petition the NCAA to give Iowa State and Northern Iowa another game, one against each other. …

It’s the Big Four Classic. You need one thing to be a ‘Classic.” That’s someone to call it a classic. …

No one will hold any clothing drives for Big Ten football. But to borrow from Mr. Springsteen, some days the …

Do we even need a preamble for Iowa State-Iowa basketball? It’s fun. This isn’t football, where the ISU-Iowa game of …

(Updated at the bottom of the post) As far as crimes go, Bryce Dejean-Jones’ biggest one may be being a …

Less than three weeks ago, I interviewed Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez in a Cedar Rapids sandwich shop. I didn’t …

This is kind of incredible. A record-tying 10 Big Ten teams are going to bowl games, but none are favored …

The North Florida men’s basketball team won at Purdue Saturday. North Florida plays at Iowa on Dec. 22. Which means …

NORMAL, Ill. – This is how one team’s national-title hopes were born six months ago, and how another’s died Saturday: …

Not every one of Iowa’s nonconference games involves North Carolina. Maryland, Baltimore County (That’s right, a comma instead of a …

Iowa Athletic Director Gary Barta wanted to talk to the media Friday, and says he will do again Saturday in …

Wrap your mind around this: Iowa, with a 7-5 record, could face a 10-win division-champion from the Pacific-12 Conference in …

Nebraska hired an old dude. Just kidding. Because 61 isn’t old. Mick Jagger is 71. Iowa has a U.S. Senator, …

If you call yourself The Football Scoop, the one thing you should be good at is getting scoops about football, …

Wednesdays are garbage-pickup day in my neighborhood, and that’s where I took all the bowl-projections I accumulated this week. They’re …