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Mike Hlas
I am the sports columnist and Iowa men’s basketball beat writer for The Gazette. I have been at The Gazette since well before TheGazette.com was a thing, but not as long as Charles Grassley has been a U.S. Senator. I have dined with kings and queens, and I have dined on pork and beans. Oh, only the pork and beans part of that is true. I am the most unaffectedly personal columnist in Iowa, and perhaps the world. To verify that, please contact my representation.
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Latest Articles by Mike Hlas
Iowa Basketball Dec. 25, 2020 2:44 pm1721d ago
Time is a jet plane. It moves too fast. So wrote someone named Bob Dylan in the song ‘You’re a …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 22, 2020 11:37 pm1724d ago
IOWA CITY – The flying around for a nation-leading 98.7 points per game stopped the moment the Iowa men’s basketball …
Iowa Basketball Aug. 11, 2021 1:24 pm1492d ago
What: Purdue (6-2, 1-0) at No. 4 Iowa (6-1, 0-0) in men’s basketball When/where: 8:07 p.m., Carver-Hawkeye Arena TV: BTN …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 21, 2020 7:50 pm1725d ago
The fun of being nationally ranked is fine, but the reality of the Big Ten men’s basketball season is something …
Iowa Football Dec. 21, 2020 11:27 am1725d ago
You surely knew this many months ago, but we got more proof Sunday. We have entered a rift in the …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 20, 2020 10:09 am1726d ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Guess what. Chances were always pretty good Iowa wouldn’t go unbeaten in men’s basketball this season. …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 19, 2020 7:02 pm1727d ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Iowa got a measuring stick. It poked the Hawkeyes in the ribs. No. 1 Gonzaga brought …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 19, 2020 9:29 am1727d ago
What: No. 1 Gonzaga (3-0) vs. No. 3 Iowa (6-0) in men’s basketball When/where: 11:05 a.m., Saturday, Sanford Pentagon, Sioux …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 18, 2020 10:54 pm1728d ago
Not long before Super Bowl VI in 1972, Dallas Cowboys running back Duane Thomas was asked what it was like …
Iowa State Cyclones Dec. 18, 2020 10:58 am1728d ago
On Aug. 10, a derecho ran amok in Iowa and the Midwest. The next day, the Big Ten postponed its …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 17, 2020 11:50 am1729d ago
The last time an Iowa men’s basketball team faced the No. 1 team in the nation, it won convincingly. The …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 16, 2020 6:25 pm1730d ago
Gonzaga and Iowa. Two men’s basketball handfuls. ‘They have a lot of really good players,’ Hawkeyes Coach Fran McCaffery said …
Iowa Football Dec. 15, 2020 4:12 pm1731d ago
Given Iowa ranks higher in U.S. states’ COVID-19 deaths per capita (12th) than it does in Associated Press’ college football …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 15, 2020 10:41 am1731d ago
Gonzaga is the men’s basketball ‘mid-major’ that never needs an introduction. This month, none other than LeBron James lauded the …
Iowa Basketball Dec. 14, 2020 11:25 am1732d ago
Iowa’s highly-regarded men’s basketball opponent Saturday is an illustration of what this season will be like and has already been. …