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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
UNI Panthers Sep. 10, 2018 6:38 pm2559d ago
CEDAR FALLS — Mark Farley coached a Northern Iowa football team against Iowa in 2009. The Hawkeyes went 11-2 that …
Iowa Football Sep. 9, 2018 12:17 pm2560d ago
IOWA CITY — Netflix’s ‘Last Chance U’ shows a side of college football foreign to the one we know here. …
Iowa Football Sep. 8, 2018 11:03 pm2561d ago
IOWA CITY — The ‘Break the Rock’ slogan had presumably been put in mothballs way back in 2001. Iowa broke …
Iowa State Cyclones Sep. 8, 2018 5:18 pm2561d ago
IOWA CITY — ‘This,’ said Georges Niang, ‘is crazy.’ The former Iowa State second-team All-America basketball player flew from Utah …
Iowa Basketball Sep. 7, 2018 4:16 pm2562d ago
Iowa sophomore men’s basketball player Luka Garza had surgery Friday to remove a benign cyst in his abdomen. ‘We are …
Iowa Football Sep. 7, 2018 1:55 pm2562d ago
If your favorite sports teams lose, you hurt. Maybe a lot. But winning can be painful, too. For instance, there …
Iowa Football Sep. 6, 2018 3:21 pm2563d ago
Who has talked more about the Iowa State and Iowa football teams than their radio play-by-play announcers? Nobody, that’s who. …
Iowa Football Sep. 8, 2018 12:49 pm2561d ago
Do you really need Fun Facts for an Iowa State-Iowa game? No, but there are a lot of things you …
Iowa State Cyclones Sep. 4, 2018 8:02 pm2565d ago
AMES — If the people most involved in Saturday’s upcoming Iowa-Iowa State game are filled with loathing and bile toward …
Iowa State Cyclones Sep. 4, 2018 2:34 pm2565d ago
This isn’t Matt Campbell’s first game-canceled-because-of-weather rodeo. ‘Ironically,’ Campbell said during Monday’s Big 12 Conference coaches’ teleconference, ‘I had this …
Sports Sep. 3, 2018 8:45 pm2566d ago
There is no sentiment in pro football. We know how tight New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick is with Iowa …
Iowa State Cyclones Sep. 3, 2018 1:13 am2567d ago
Warning: This column could be suspended because of lightning in any given paragraph. Incredibly, something is bigger than college football. …
Iowa Football Sep. 1, 2018 9:56 pm2568d ago
IOWA CITY — Some may wince when a university football coach is praised for being anything other than a successful …
Iowa Football Sep. 1, 2018 2:50 pm2568d ago
The level of commitment many college football fans make is amazing. Kevin Jamison of Colo, a short pull down Highway …
Iowa Football Aug. 31, 2018 7:32 pm2569d ago
CORALVILLE — Bob Stoops would have been the Iowa football team’s honorary captain this weekend, but family comes first. Stoops’ …