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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 Football Aug. 31, 2018 10:59 am2570d ago
Two consecutive head coaches serving for 20 years apiece at one school? Nope. Not in big-time college football. Yet here …
Iowa Football Sep. 1, 2018 3:02 pm2568d ago
It’s the return of Fun Facts. Why? They’re fun! We don’t have to overthink this, you know. Here is this …
Iowa Football Aug. 29, 2018 5:06 pm2571d ago
The Black Friday part of the Iowa-Nebraska football rivalry will have just a two-year blackout, then will resume into the …
Iowa Football Aug. 28, 2018 11:16 pm2572d ago
IOWA CITY – It was totally fitting that thunder rumbled in full throat here Tuesday afternoon as media mopes toured …
Iowa Football Aug. 27, 2018 1:53 pm2573d ago
The Mike Hlas Podcast has returned with this fun conversation about Iowa Hawkeyes football past, present and future with comedian/Iowan/Iowa …
Iowa Football Aug. 27, 2018 3:40 pm2573d ago
This is the preseason edition of the Super Terrific Happy Hour college football rankings. (First-place votes in parentheses.) 1. Hawaii …
Iowa High School Football Aug. 25, 2018 1:59 pm2575d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — High school football fully returned to Iowa this weekend, and with it came the good things about …
Iowa Football Aug. 22, 2018 12:06 pm2579d ago
Sports predictions are like pennies. We carry and distribute them, but they’re basically worthless. Besides, no one remembers when the …
Iowa Basketball Aug. 21, 2018 4:47 pm2579d ago
A whopper of a week comes to the Iowa men’s basketball team far sooner than usual, and weekends will be …
Iowa Football Aug. 20, 2018 11:56 am2581d ago
You can’t call it irony. No, the fact rookies from Iowa returned interceptions for touchdowns in two NFL preseason games …
Iowa Football Aug. 17, 2018 1:29 pm2583d ago
‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,’ said an English cleric named Charles Caleb Colton. To which playwright Oscar Wilde …
Aug. 17, 2018 1:24 pm2583d ago
‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” said an English cleric named Charles Caleb Colton. To which playwright Oscar Wilde …
Living Aug. 16, 2018 11:22 am2585d ago
You’ll read and hear a whole lot of tributes to Aretha Franklin today and for quite some time. They will …
Iowa Basketball Aug. 15, 2018 7:26 pm2585d ago
The final touches have been put on the University of Iowa’s men’s basketball nonconference schedule for the upcoming season, and …
Iowa Football Aug. 13, 2018 4:16 pm2587d ago
August. When football training camps are in session, and retired players don’t miss the sweat, strain and drudgery a bit. …