I'll remember UNI football for all the good times, and there were many.

Friday high school football finals: Bluejacket 45, Olive 0 Bonham 28, Venus 16 Hurricane 49, Dixie 10 Weeping Water 24, Palmer 8 Newcastle 12, Tongue River 7 Eupora 22, Water Valley 8 Martinsville 29, Dan River 3 Vidor 45, Iowa 42 Goshen 5, Plymouth 2 (OT)

Reports say despite looking the way he does Mitch McConnell was able to recite the Nicki Minaj verse from Monster word for word

Fresh Old Head Pod w/ @mikehlas.bsky.social & @marcmorehouse.bsky.social Looking back at CyHawk, Athletic story on NIL budgets, does college sports need saving by congress? Related: How are gas prices in your area? Audio spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/TGy2B6CJv6b Video youtu.be/lryqh52L0qk

News like this will rock you, but you must stay informed and engaged.

Yet, a U.S. Senate candidate and a U.S. Congresswoman from Iowa are touting clamping down on stock-trading by their colleagues in campaign commercials without a word about their party's leader.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4d ago

Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt

Hlas Out of Bounds: I gave a lot of thought to the potential of AI destroying humanity. My reaction: It doesn't have the brainpower to pull it off. mikehlas.substack.com/p/i-official...

I officially declare AI is too stupid to take me (and the entire species) out!

Don’t worry about the nervous Nellies who say artificial intelligence will destroy us. We don’t need its help.

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Hlas Out of Bounds: No offense (or very little), but I can wait at least 364 days to see another Iowa State-Iowa football game. mikehlas.substack.com/p/it-was-ano...

It was another Iowa State-Iowa football game, which means it was tight and ugly

This time, the Hawkeyes won by a 16-13 score. The series hadn’t had a 16-13 final since Iowa State won by that count ... last year.

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michigan and iowa are gonna play a disgusting game in a couple weeks. the real big ten is back

I wish I were writing a column on deadline about this Iowa-ISU game, not knowing how it ends.

The times I want ice cream the most are always when I have none. It's the darnedest thing.

Prep football finals: Indianapolis Arsenal Tech 26, Indianapolis Tindley 0 Indianapolis Attucks 52, Indianapolis Washington 6 Indianapolis Cathedral 16, Indianapolis Chatard 14 Indianapolis Lutheran 49, Indianapolis Scecina 10 Jack Britt 21, Terry Sanford 13 Chittenango 16, Mexico 14

Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson, running for Senate in Iowa, claims the Iran war is "thousands of miles away. It is out of sight, out of mind for so many Americans.” (Hinson has defended the war and voted against war powers resolutions.)

Old Head Podcast w/ @mikehlas.bsky.social & @marcmorehouse.bsky.social Season 1, Episode 2 Iowa Football storylines, 25 years since Cy-Hawk 9/11 week, what to do with extra $5K we might have coming to us in November Audio: open.spotify.com/episode/6Rex... Video: youtu.be/fbEmH0q8BEo

Hlas column: The Cy-Hawk Trophy. Is there a lazier, less-creative name for an in-state football rivalry in any of the other 49 states or Guam? mikehlas.substack.com/p/cy-hawk-it...

Cy-Hawk? It’s too corny a name for Iowa’s in-state game, so will someone please fix it?

As rivalry names go, the one the Iowa State-Iowa series has is among the worst

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If you haven't seen this (I can't take credit for doing the research, it was forwarded to me), you may be amazed: Prior to the Western Michigan-Michigan game, college teams were 110,332-0 when leading at the end of regulation.

So now that we all had a night to sleep on it and take emotion out of the equation, we're all good with how the end of that Western Michigan-Michigan game was settled, right?

I fully expect the Big Ten to start selling crypto, bibles and a sneaker line by noon tomorrow.

and they say the US doesn’t have a culture 

Jessica Smetana@jessicasmetana.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bar in Green Bay is doing a Wisconsin vs Notre Dame hot dog eating contest right now

My Week 1 wrapup: Iowa State and Iowa had season-starting wins with less drama than a Will Ferrell film festival. Which gave warm feelings to the fans at both stadiums, though the three-digit heat indexes in Ames and Iowa City may have contributed. mikehlas.substack.com/p/iowa-and-i...

Iowa and Iowa State are as rough on their Week 1 football guests as their state is on its rivers and lakes

The Hawkeyes’ and Cyclones’ season-starting wins had less drama than a Will Ferrell film festival

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Georgia Tech has bounced back.

It's Lake Ontario.

Hlas column: As slow builds go, college football's Week 1 rivals the starts of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Stairway to Heaven." mikehlas.substack.com/publish/post...

College football really starts for real this week, with a really lousy schedule

Week 1 games worth watching this week are few and far as Northern Illinois comes to Iowa, Southeast Missouri State visits Iowa State, and Ohio State faces the inappropriately named Ball State

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i really thought my middle ages would include more jousting

Friday's high school football finals: Lord Botetourt 38, Rustburg 12 Tea 35, Huron 32 East Meck 13, West Meck 8 Pleasant Home 8, Red Level 3 Northside 21, Southside 7 Coconut Creek 33, True North Classical 32 Woodford County 35, Bourbon County 20 Jim Hill 34, Crystal Springs 2

I just renamed the Great Lakes. Lake Baby Spice, Lake Sporty Spice, Lake Scary Spice, Lake Ginger Space and Lake Posh Spice. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Kindness. Humility. Humanity. Joy. Positivity. Philanthropy. The best kind of charm. An incredibly effective advocate for literacy for kids who needed one. And a true, overwhelmingly talented entertainer. Dolly.

Hlas column: Iowa Hawkeyes sports have partnerships with lager, bourbon and vodka. If they'd had them when Kinnick Stadium opened, they would have had a serious problem with the feds. mikehlas.substack.com/p/if-you-don...

Hawkeyes have booze and beer as their partners, apparently part of being a functioning college athletics program in 2026

Drink for the Hawkeyes and their next generation of legends!

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Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 4w ago

Much as I hate to give Kanter the time, nobody here will support him anyway. Sky players kept Tasha away from him