The Mike Hlas Podcast

Iowa Hawkeyes football and basketball are this week’s topics – but far from the only topics – with this week’s guest, comedian/writer Scott Long. Scott is a native Iowan and University of Iowa graduate who can talk a good game about Hawkeyes football and basketball, as you’ll quickly learn from listening here. For the last [...]

  It’s Wisconsin-Iowa Week. Who better to have as a guest on this week’s Mike Hlas Podcast than Jeff Potrykus, who covers Badgers football and basketball for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel? Check out Jeff’s Badgers Blog on the Journal Sentinel site. Jeff talks about explosive Badger running back Melvin Gordon. He offers insights on Wisconsin’s [...]

It’s Northwestern-Iowa Week, so the Mike Hlas Podcast is talking Northwestern. The guest this week is Northwestern grad/Northwestern season ticket-holder/Cedar Rapids executive Doug Neumann. Doug is a former Gazette editor and reporter who is the executive vice president of the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance. In the spirit of full disclosure, that’s also where my [...]

Since it’s Iowa-Ohio State Week, the Mike Hlas Podcast takes a look at Ohio State’s program through the eyes of Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel (@SIPeteThamel), who spent four days with the Buckeyes before their season-opening win over Buffalo. Thamel had a headset on while in the OSU coaches’  booth in the press box for that [...]

It’s Michigan State-Iowa Week, and the guest on this week’s Mike Hlas Podcast knows Michigan State football. Graham Couch, the sports columnist of the Lansing State Journal, talks about the Spartans, their offensive questions, their defensive dominance, and how he looks at this MSU-Iowa matchup. Graham also talks a little MSU (and Iowa) basketball. You [...]

It’s Iowa-Minnesota Week. So this week’s Mike Hlas Podcast features an interview with Patrick Reusse, longtime sports columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and co-host of Reusse & Mackey on 1500 ESPN in the Twin Cities. Reusse has seen a lot of Minnesota Gophers football over the years, and he discusses the Gophers’ spot in [...]

This week, the guest on the Mike Hlas Podcast is Armen Keteyian (@ArmenKeteyian on Twitter). Keteyian is one of the most-accomplished sports journalists of our time. He is a CBS News correspondent and an 11-time Emmy winner who has co-written a new book with Jeff Benedict called “The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time [...]

This week’s Mike Hlas Podcast plays right into Iowa-Iowa State Week. We’ve got former Cyclone quarterback Sage Rosenfels and ex-Hawkeye kicker Nate Kaeding, both of whom had lengthy NFL careers and are newly retired from football. They talk about Iowa-ISU and about a story Rosenfels had published last month on themmqb.com about the 2010 NFC [...]

Former Iowa/NFL placekicker Nate Kaeding returns to the Mike Hlas Podcast this week. With the NFL season starting on Thursday, Nate joins me to talk about what it’s like to be on an NFL team during the final roster cuts, and what training camp is like in general. We discuss the former Hawkeyes who got [...]

Iowa has never forgotten Chuck Long though it’s been 28 years since he threw his last pass for the Hawkeyes’ football team. On Saturday, Long joins eight other elite former Iowa players on the Wall of Fame that will be debuted at Kinnick Stadium. He will also be the analyst for the Big Ten Network’s [...]

This week’s Mike Hlas Podcast welcomes Wright Thompson, senior writer for  ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. Wright just wrote “The Losses of Dan Gable,” a wonderful essay on the legendary former Iowa wrestling coach. He talks about the time he spent with Gable, insights and anecdotes of spending time with Gable at his home and [...]

Aaron Hernandez. Just the name now stirs emotions and makes us ask questions. The most obvious is: If Hernandez is guilty of murder as charged, why did he throw away his financial security and all that goes with it for a violent act or acts? The latest Mike Hlas Podcast features former NFL placekicker Nate [...]

Hawkeyes’ men’s basketball head man Fran McCaffery joined me to talk about his roots in basketball, his team’s upcoming trip to play six games in Europe and the overall state of his program. Below is the full audio of the interview in the newest episode of “The Mike Hlas Podcast.” You can subscribe to my [...]

WWE performer Big E Langston, who was a University of Iowa defensive tackle named Ettore Ewen in another life, guests on the latest Mike Hlas Podcast. “Big E” talks about how he went from an injury-shortened career with the Hawkeyes to success in the world of professional wrestling. He’ll be performing in Eastern Iowa on [...]

The newest Mike Hlas Podcast features long-time Hawkeye broadcasters Bob Brooks and Ron Gonder. The discussion touches on the late Jim Zabel, a good friend of both men, and the changes in the broadcast business over time. As always, you can subscribe to my podcast on iTunes by clicking here or Stitcher Radio – for [...]