Mike Hlas

It’s fun to pretend. Thursday night I gained 140 pounds, six inches in height, and a lot more in the …

The NCAA is set to expand the men’s basketball tournament from 65 to 68 teams starting next year. So it’s …

1. The Penn State-Iowa football game this Oct. 2 will be played at night. In equally surprising news, the Super …

So the gun got jumped a bit. Now the Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein reports this from the BCS meetings in …

Don’t shoot the messenger. Or give him a bad Internet connection. According to Akamai Technologies, Ann Arbor, Mich., Urbana, Ill., …

Predicting how the Big Ten will expand is like trying to forecast durations of volcanic ash clouds. By the way, …

Do you want to see the league at 12, 14 or 16 schools? Or at 11, for that matter? Then, …

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN.com’s man on Big Ten football, explains the Big Ten (possible) expansion process in easy-to-understand terms. From this …

It’s not stopping at 12 teams, sports fans. The Big Ten won’t add just one more school. It will add …

Had Iowa filled every seat in Kinnick Stadium Saturday, it still would have had a smaller crowd for its final …

This looked like their first meeting. The CEOs of Iowa football and men’s basketball in the football boss’ home, Kinnick …

For the umpteenth time, I’m not a professional photographer. Or even an amateur. I look at cameras the way fish …

IOWA CITY – The loudest ovation during the Iowa football team’s spring scrimmage at Kinnick Stadium Saturday was when Ricky …

Dochterman, Morehouse, Hlas. Here:

Jeff Johnson, he of the Diamonds and Ice blog on Gazetteonline, has gone beyond the diamond and the ice. He …