Hlas column: If Iowa is to be a part of the national college football discussion this year (other than as a potential spoiler for Penn State or Oregon), it has to start Saturday vs. Indiana. www.thegazette.com/article/hawk...

Fun Facts: Indiana-Iowa football. Statistics, comparisons, Santa Claus and Caitlin Clark. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Who among us hasn't had our week ruined by a stopped escalator?

If one more Rapture fails to show up, I may stop believing in Raptures altogether.

Hlas column: For the first time in our lives, Indiana is coming to Iowa with a football dynamo. The Hawkeyes are underdogs by a touchdown, and not because something has gone horribly wrong. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Valdez, Alaska retains.

Has anyone accused of throwing someone under a bus ever thrown someone under a bus?

BREAKING: Disney says Jimmy Kimmel's show will resume tomorrow

Big college basketball news. Question now is if Pearl runs for senate, with current Sen. Tommy Tuberville now running for governor.

I did the college football couch potato thing Saturday. A lot of things didn't make sense. www.thegazette.com/sports/thoug...

Your Indiana Fever won the deciding Game 3 in Atlanta, advance to the WNBA semis vs. either Las Vegas or Seattle. Fever go to semis for first time in 10 years.

No Michigan State, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota at home. Iowa's complete 2025-26 men's basketball schedule is here: www.thegazette.com/iowa-basketb...

Hlas column: The Big Ten's football lower class of not long ago is fomenting an uprising. Iowa needs to beat Rutgers Friday to keep pace with Illinois and Indiana and stay ahead of, yes, Rutgers. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Fun Facts, Iowa-Rutgers: Both teams are in states that share a bird and can claim a musical Sinatra. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:

Hlas column: No college quarterback at any level has won more games than Iowa's Mark Gronowski, but he starts Friday night at 0 in the Big Ten. No college QB has won more games than Gronowski, but he starts Friday night at 0 in Big Ten. www.thegazette.com/sports/iowas...

Hlas column: A lot of coaches have set records. Kirk Ferentz broke the Big Ten's career mark for wins in large part by reaching his players' hearts and minds, and the way they reacted Saturday to Ferentz's achievement was a testament to him. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Iowa men's basketball lands a 4-star forward from Washington state, Ethan Harris, who had Gonzaga and Washington among his four finalists. Story: www.thegazette.com/iowa-basketb...

High school football finals: Pickle Valley 34, Gargoyle Heights 28 Mudflap County 21, Lava Rock Academy 14 Cactus Junction 42, Swamp Bog 40 Cornbread Tech 17, Oilcan City 7 Hush Hollow 27, Thunderbucket 24 Prairie Dog Flats 13, Fogtown 6 Dustbowl Union 30, Moonshine River 12

After devouring the Pac-12, this was the next logical step: Internal cannibalism. www.indystar.com/story/sports...

Hlas column: You know what $1.7 million could still buy? A lot. You know what $1.7 is purchasing tomorrow night at Kinnick? A mismatch. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Iowa's first nonconference men's basketball schedule with Ben McCollum is complete. www.thegazette.com/iowa-basketb...

Unless something jumps out at us in the days to come, the only story of this week in Iowa football is Kirk Ferentz breaking the record he shares with Woody Hayes for coaching wins while in the Big Ten.

Fun with the transitive property: Because Northern Illinois beat Notre Dame and Fordham beat Georgetown, UMass (2-10) was better than Iowa (8-5) last season. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Do Stills and Nash stay in touch?

Sometimes it rains here in Valdez, Alaska. It's OK.

Hlas column: Don't look back in anger, Hawkeye World. The cure to your passing game maladies is coming to Kinnick Saturday night in the form of an opponent coming off a loss to the Bryant Bulldogs. Or so one might think. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Hlas column: The ball finally bounced Iowa State's way in a Hawkeyes-Cyclones game in Ames, and ISU tight end Gabe Burkle of Cedar Rapids was more than ready to grab it. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Hlas column: The most-competitive in-state football rivalry in major-college football, and with two successful programs to boot? Iowa-Iowa State? For sure. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Forget Sexy… We’re bringing measles back!!!

There’s classical music concert adjacent to Buckingham Fountain tonight. Oh, will the horrors in this city never end?

Hlas column: It will be a very tough chore for anyone to ever catch the number of wins as a Big Ten coach that Iowa's Kirk Ferentz will post before his career is done. www.thegazette.com/sports/kirk-...

George Raveling was a College Basketball Hall of Famer who bridged the Lute Olson and Tom Davis eras at Iowa and brought a lot of talent to the Hawkeyes in a short time. Story: thegazette.com/iowa-basketb...

My AP Top 25 ballot for this week: One team from Alabama is on it. Can you guess which? www.thegazette.com/sports/mike-...

Hlas column: Preston Ries. Instant Hawkeye folk hero? Well, the redshirt freshman certainly made a lot of new fans after his first game with Iowa. He put on a special teams tour de force of mayhem. www.thegazette.com/sports/monti...

This Albany-Iowa game is the only thing on FS1 right now.

Hlas column: Iowa ought to have just as good a shot at the College Football Playoff as the Duke's Mayo Bowl. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

With the AJC dropping its print edition, I feel compelled to share one of the greatest moments in print design history

Hlas column: I did a phone interview with Lee Corso in 1996. Before it was over, I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. He was laughing, too. "A good sense of humor is one good thing to help you deal with adversity. I’ve always had fun," he said. www.thegazette.com/sports/lee-c...

Mark Farley stayed retired from football for eight months or so after 24 years as Northern Iowa's head coach. He has joined Bret Bielema's Illinois program. So has one of his former UNI players. www.thegazette.com/sports/forme...

Fun Facts: UAlbany-Iowa. The Great Danes may not be a great football team, but they have a great mascot. www.thegazette.com/sports/fun-f...

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Iowa All-America linebacker Jay Higgins went undrafted by NFL teams last spring. He is on the Baltimore Ravens' 53-player roster after surviving today's cuts. www.thegazette.com/sports/undra...

Hlas column: It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's a forward pass from a Hawkeye quarterback! Starting Saturday, courtesy of proven-winner Mark Gronowski. www.thegazette.com/iowa-footbal...

Billy O'Riordan of County Tipperary sent me a few photos from the Iowa State-Kansas State game. That's not a sentence I ever expected to type. www.thegazette.com/sports/even-...

The single-most comprehensive wrap-up of Week 0 in college football: It includes a bag of money, family fisticuffs, a baby that correctly picked Iowa State, and a Tik Tok dance gone horribly awry. www.thegazette.com/sports/the-o...

Iowa adds Western Illinois, Western Michigan and UMass Lowell to its men's basketball schedule. www.thegazette.com/iowa-basketb...

This morning's traffic situation in Valdez, Alaska: Manageable.

The single-most comprehensive wrap-up of Week 0 in college football: It includes a bag of money, family fisticuffs, a baby that correctly picked Iowa State, and a Tik Tok dance gone horribly awry. www.thegazette.com/sports/the-o...