I enjoyed this. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Hlas Out of Bounds: The new and not-improved NCAA basketball tournaments come your way next year. Mo Money, Mo Mediocrity. mikehlas.substack.com/p/with-a-big...

Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)

The results are in. Now it's time for good governing in Valdez, Alaska.

On the same day it was announced that the FBI was investigating journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick after her devastating article on Kash Patel and alcohol…Sarah Fitzpatrick publishes yet another article on Kash Patel and alcohol. GIFT ARTICLE to read/share. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This week's weather forecast for Valdez, Alaska:

I'm at the Met Gala. I got new Skechers for the event. The response has been muted, to say the least.

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Hlas Out of Bounds: You could have learned something very important from Saturday's Kentucky Derby. Which is, if you try you can outshine your siblings no matter what they've achieved. mikehlas.substack.com/p/lesson-fro...

It's geat to be a billionaire. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

They're performing in Cedar Rapids on July 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmC...

In the federal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the coastal authorities, who investigate seashell-related crimes; and the Department of Justice, who prosecute the offenders.

Hlas Out of Bounds: Hawkeye Auto, Hawkeye Roofing, Hawkeye Vapor, Hawkeye Junk Removal -- practically everything Herky the Hawk needs has a Hawkeye in the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids Corridor to sell it to him. mikehlas.substack.com/p/you-cant-s...

Three hours and 40 minutes till Kimmel.

I'm waiting for World Cup prices to drop, drop, drop, and they will. Once that happens, I'll be buying 40 tickets and chartering a bus to one of the games. Who wants to come along?

Maybe some of you know Gazette photojournalist Jim Slosiarek. Many of you have seen his great work over the years. So I share this with you: www.gofundme.com/f/supporting...

It's never rhubarb season.

Hlas Out of Bounds: Caitlin Clark's story continues to add texture, and that will only continue as her Indiana Fever look like a WNBA title-contender. Christine Brennan added texture to her bestseller about Clark in the paperback edition coming May 5. mikehlas.substack.com/p/caitlin-cl...

Former Iowa forward Alvaro Folgueiras is headed to Louisville. Jeff Goodman first reported it.

Happy 4/20! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKsl...

This isn't real. If it were, I'd have been in the Oscars' "In Memoriam" tribute this year.

The World Cup will be here in less than 2 months. Here's the first of my 48-part series on the event. Algeria, which has its hotel breakfast concerns resolved, or so it says. mikehlas.substack.com/p/part-1-of-...

Blueskis, Russkies. therecord.media/russia-crack...

All-Pro George Kittle is going to Wrestlemania this week with several of his former Iowa football teammates, but just to be a spectator. When you've torn your Achilles just 3 months earlier, it's best not to get tangle with the WWE bruisers. My story: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Addi Crooks has a new deal. An endorsement deal, that is. www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

I caught up with George Kittle three months after the former Hawkeye tore an Achilles in an NFL playoff game. The perennial Pro Bowler is powering toward being able to play in Week 1 in his 10th season with the 49ers. mikehlas.substack.com/p/not-even-a...

Jan Jensen just got a big win. Iowa is getting transfer guard Dani Carnegie from Georgia. She was a first-team All-SEC player this season, averaging 17.8 points. She made five or more 3-pointers in six different games. She is a junior-to-be.

Anti-Orban concert in Hungary with the audience chanting “Russians, go home”

BlueSky is so much better than Musk World.

Hlas Out of Bounds: Alvaro Folgueiras entered permanent Iowa lore three weeks ago. Now he's an ex-Hawkeye, and April Madness (the NCAA transfer portal) rolls along. mikehlas.substack.com/p/alvaro-fol...

Why hasn’t Melania ever met with the Epstein survivors? Why hasn’t she advocated for them before? She’s never so much as mentioned them has she? Why this? Why now?

Hlas Out of Bounds: It's Masters Week, and I'm feeling sentimental. I haven't been amid multiple billionaires since the last time I was at Augusta National. mikehlas.substack.com/p/i-covered-...

Hlas Out of Bounds: It's Masters Week, and I'm feeling sentimental. I haven't been amid multiple billionaires since the last time I was at Augusta National. mikehlas.substack.com/p/i-covered-...

For those who get KCRG 9.2 at home or have the Internet and can access KCRG.com ... I'm making a return to On Iowa Live tonight at 6:30 (CT) after an absence of several years. I'm naming names and placing blame. Good luck to the FCC in sorting this one out.

Hlas Out of Bounds: Of course Audi Crooks is leaving Iowa State's women's basketball team. What choice did she really have? mikehlas.substack.com/p/of-course-...

It looks like I'm back in the mix for U.S. Attorney General.

Moonlit moose:

‪It's raining in Cedar Rapids with thunder and lightning. We'll have the traffic report at the other end of this commericial break.

Here is my latest column, about how Iowa is afraid to find out the truth about cancer. www.stormlake.com/stories/a-st...

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

I'll be on Iowa Public Radio's "River to River" today around 12:40 p.m. to discuss a couple of men's basketball teams to happen to still be alive in the NCAA tourney.

Hlas Out of Bounds: Beth Goetz got the hire right a year ago this week. 9-seed Iowa puts Hawkeye fans on Cloud Nine and into the Elite Eight. mikehlas.substack.com/p/iowa-fans-...

Iowa-Illinois will be Saturday at 5:09 p.m. on TBS.

Something to be considered if you're getting bent out of shape about a basketball game this weekend:

Hlas Out of Bounds: Iowa-Nebraska. Flyover states with men's basketball teams flying in the face of norms and expectations. There are seven typical matchups in the Sweet 16, and then there is this. mikehlas.substack.com/p/iowa-nebra...

I haven't heard of one single one of these creatures.

Hlas Out of Bounds: Iowa-Nebraska. Flyover states with men's basketball teams flying in the face of norms and expectations. There are seven typical matchups in the Sweet 16, and then there is this. mikehlas.substack.com/p/iowa-nebra...

A reason to watch a news channel after 10 p.m.:

Who's excited about Iowa going to the NCAA men's basketball Sweet 16? J.R. Koch and his teammates on the last Hawkeyes men's team to go that deep in the tourney, in 1999. Koch has a pretty good reason: His son is prominent on this season's team. hawkfanatic.com/2026/03/24/f...

Here was the start of my Gazette column from the previous time Iowa last earned a spot in the NCAA men's Sweet 16, 1999 in Denver: