Caitlin Clark's story keeps adding texture, and author Christine Brennan is returning to Iowa to share more of it Brennan's 2025 book about Clark was a New York Times Best Seller, and an updated paperback edition is coming in May with new stories and information about the former Hawkeye/current WNBA superstar

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...

Did you say the same when Stirtz, Banks, Combs, Howard and Manyamu left Drake after one season?

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

Oh, good. Who are they?

The Lawrence Welk Show . One Toke Over The Line (Live Performance - 1971) YouTube video by zones2surf

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.

Part 1 of 48, My World Cup preview: Algeria, a scrappy team with an invigorating mint tea They're the Desert Foxes. You should be so lucky as to one day be a Fox like them, and me.

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-...

Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.

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

Not even a torn Achilles can slow the indomitable George Kittle for long Former Iowa tight end approaches his 10th NFL season like he does everything: Going full-bore and with a happy attitude.

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-...

Audi.

JCPenney taking ‘Inside Lane’ in deal with women’s basketball stars Gucci, Dior and Prada have had their time in women’s basketball tunnel walks. Now JCPenney is joining the high-fashion brands that have cast athletes as desirable models and fashion icons with its "In...

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

Not even a torn Achilles can slow the indomitable George Kittle for long Former Iowa tight end approaches his 10th NFL season like he does everything: Going full-bore and with a happy attitude.

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...

What if he returns with a shaved head, a full beard, and lifts in his shoes?

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.

Alvaro Folgueiras, now a former Hawkeye, changed feelings about Iowa men's basketball with one shining moment Folgueiras will get a better NIL deal elsewhere, Ben McCollum will continue to strengthen Iowa's roster, and April Madness (the NCAA transfer portal) rolls along

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?

Been there, didn't like that.

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-...

I didn't vote, Huddle. Take it up with the panel.

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-...

Elite Eight, Daddy. Lost to UCLA by 3, not 51.

They play over 30 other games.

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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.

Of course Audi Crooks is leaving Iowa State's women's basketball team. What choice did she really have? Crooks was the most-recognized women's basketball player in Cyclones history. While she leaves behind a shell of a roster, she can become a better-known, better-paid star elsewhere.

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.

A state of denial - Storm Lake Times Pilot Your typical dude avoids doctors and their probes because they would just find something wrong with him. Who needs that? Been there myself, for sure. Sometimes you’re forced to go and a blood …

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