This is Mike Hlas' Substack for the Iowa Writers Collaborative.
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When you decline my interview-requests, you've pretty much guaranteed yourself trouble down the road no matter how paved with gold it may be.
Former men's basketball National Player of the Year at Iowa is entering his sixth NBA season after the fifth was his best.
Online predictive markets allow you to bet on anything from the sublime to the ridiculous. Some states think they're a really bad thing. Meanwhile, Iowa high school kids have hopped aboard.
The 1960 Hawkeyes were third in Associated Press' final Top 25, but were awarded the No. 1 spot by other organizations after defeating seven teams ranked as high as 12th
Every coach is excited for the season ahead in July. Check back in four months, after every Big Ten conference game had a Big Ten team that lost.
The Stones are 82, 82 and 79, have made new music, and probably don't read AARP magazines
I'm just sayin'. No, wait, I'm not just sayin', especially at the end of the day.
Sure, the U.S. came up short yet again. But where does it say we have to be the big boss of a big party, even if we were one of the hosts?
Two sellout crowds at the University of Iowa's football coliseum came to see Banana Ball. They left smiling.
I'll give Caitlin Clark a spot on the mountain, but thankfully, the UI has been a lot more than a sports franchise in its 179-year history.
