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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 Apr. 7, 2017 7:55 pm3081d ago
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Ten years ago, every golf media person here wanted to know about the life and times of …
Sports Apr. 7, 2017 10:08 am3081d ago
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The guilt I carry around sometimes overwhelms me. This is one such time. I was out shopping …
Sports Apr. 6, 2017 6:55 pm3082d ago
AUGUSTA, Ga. — How windy was it Thursday at the Masters? ‘I’ve got whitecaps in my beer,’ a fan was …
Sports Apr. 6, 2017 7:59 am3082d ago
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Never underestimate the power of personality. Snoop Dogg was slated to headline ‘Augusta Jam’ Wednesday night at …
Sports Apr. 4, 2017 5:15 pm3084d ago
AUGUSTA, Ga. — I was in North Carolina Tuesday morning, 12 hours or so after the University of North Carolina’s …
Sports Apr. 2, 2017 12:07 pm3086d ago
This was supposed to be the year Zach Johnson brought soup, salad and breadsticks to your table at a chain …
Sports Mar. 30, 2017 1:53 pm3089d ago
Two of the most-prolific shooters in our state’s college basketball history will compete tonight in the State Farm Slam Dunk …
Sports Mar. 29, 2017 3:44 pm3090d ago
Good news came Jarrod Uthoff’s way today. The former University of Iowa basketball player has been signed for the rest …
Sports Mar. 28, 2017 1:16 pm3091d ago
How good to you have to be to make an All-America basketball team? Really, really, really good. Associated Press’ 65 …
Sports Mar. 27, 2017 5:14 pm3092d ago
First and foremost, wow. For the women’s basketball team of Kirkwood Community College to cap the first unbeaten season in …
Sports Mar. 27, 2017 11:26 am3092d ago
Another college basketball season nears its end. With it comes another year’s worth of my grievances about meaningless drivel we’ve …
Sports Mar. 23, 2017 1:23 pm3096d ago
Remember the NIT? That’s the basketball tournament Iowa was in until early Sunday evening. It was fun while it lasted. …
Sports Mar. 19, 2017 2:32 am3101d ago
MILWAUKEE — The interaction between seniors Deonte Burton and Monte Morris on their way to their NCAA men’s basketball tournament …
Sports Mar. 17, 2017 7:48 pm3102d ago
MILWAUKEE — For as delightful a circus the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is for America, it can feel like a …
Sports Mar. 17, 2017 1:21 am3103d ago
MILWAUKEE — Distracted? Just because half its eight-player rotation was from Wisconsin and three-eighths of it grew up here in …