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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
Sports Sep. 29, 2017 5:14 pm2963d ago
What are the most-heartbreaking game-nights of this millennium for Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa? Ones that involve the Spartans …
Sports Sep. 29, 2017 1:00 am2963d ago
AMES — Iowa State’s football program still is a caterpillar, not a butterfly. It thought it had a first-rate college …
Sports Sep. 28, 2017 10:56 am2964d ago
Hlastradamus told you Iowa would cover the 12-point spread against Penn State last week, and it did with 10 points …
Sports Jan. 12, 2022 10:36 am1397d ago
IOWA CITY — The approaches our state’s two biggest college football programs have about making social statements are different. At …
Sports Sep. 25, 2017 4:01 pm2967d ago
Hey, pick yourself up and dust yourself off. Iowa has another football game this week, at Michigan State. The Fun …
Sports Sep. 25, 2017 1:36 pm2967d ago
These are Big Ten football performance rankings. As always, send all of your complaints and disagreements about them to S. …
Sports Feb. 6, 2023 1:45 pm1007d ago
IOWA CITY — Never, never, have so many fans of a losing team sat in the Kinnick Stadium stands as …
Sports Sep. 23, 2017 7:27 pm2968d ago
IOWA CITY — People are amazing, albeit in different ways. Like Dr. Deb Carneol, a North Liberty dentist. She tailgated …
Sports Sep. 22, 2017 4:40 pm2970d ago
With Penn State a 12-point favorite over Iowa Saturday night, who dares pick against the fourth-ranked Nittany Lions? Well, not …
Sports Sep. 22, 2017 4:39 pm2970d ago
IOWA CITY — This is what you want. Name opponent. Home game. Night game. Penn State. Prime Time. Though police …
Sports Sep. 21, 2017 6:02 pm2971d ago
Hlastradamus has been places, seen things, and eaten a bad clam or two over the last several centuries. He may …
Sports Sep. 20, 2017 11:17 pm2971d ago
We all have phrases we use over and over, whether we’re aware of it or not. Mine include ‘Go ahead, …
Sports Sep. 19, 2017 7:30 pm2972d ago
IOWA CITY — There were good reasons why multiple Iowa defensive players said ‘They’ve got a lot of good offensive …
Sports Sep. 21, 2017 11:38 am2971d ago
Now we enter the serious phase of the Fun Facts season. Well, not really. But this being the week of …
Sports Sep. 18, 2017 7:02 pm2973d ago
Here are this week’s Big Ten football rankings, based on knee-jerk impulses rather than knee-jerk data. 1.

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