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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 Dec. 4, 2016 2:50 pm3205d ago
This is the third Iowa-Florida Outback Bowl. Iowa beat the Gators in 2004, 37-17. Two years later, Florida downed the …
Sports Dec. 4, 2016 2:20 pm3205d ago
It’s a little surprising, quite complimentary, and perhaps odd the Outback Bowl chose Iowa over Nebraska Sunday. The Huskers had …
Dec. 4, 2016 12:00 am3206d ago
I’d go all bowl-conjecture here on Selection Sunday, but that’s a losing game. Maybe it will be Iowa against Washington …
Sports Dec. 1, 2016 4:32 pm3208d ago
I’d go all bowl-conjecture as we near Selection Sunday, but that’s a losing game. Maybe it will be Iowa against …
Sports Nov. 30, 2016 1:54 pm3209d ago
A horrific soccer-related tragedy in South America Monday has resonated around the world, including Cedar Rapids. A chartered plane carrying …
Sports Nov. 28, 2016 12:32 pm3211d ago
Here are a handful of disconnected college football stats and notes I found interesting, at least to a small degree: …
Sports Nov. 28, 2016 2:42 pm3211d ago
Big Ten power rankings for people who think ‘bowl projections” are bowls defending themselves against their own unconscious impulses by …
Sports Nov. 26, 2016 8:48 pm3213d ago
Maybe this was for the best. OK, probably not. Losing 49-19 in your season finale as Iowa State did to …
Sports Nov. 25, 2016 8:50 pm3214d ago
IOWA CITY — So now Iowa is a Minnesota fan for a day, hoping the two-touchdown underdog Gophers defy every …
Sports Nov. 25, 2016 10:18 pm3214d ago
IOWA CITY – Iowa defensive tackle Faith Ekakitie said a Nebraska player used a racial slur toward him early in …
Sports Nov. 25, 2016 1:02 pm3214d ago
If you don’t want to know what the rest of America thinks about today’s Nebraska-Iowa football game, just keep watching …
Sports Nov. 25, 2016 9:26 am3214d ago
Hlastradamus did a mic drop last week and can’t be bothered on this holiday weekend. Besides, the penultimate episodes of …
Sports Nov. 23, 2016 2:26 pm3216d ago
It was less than three weeks ago, and the air had totally left the balloons of the Nebraska and Iowa …
Sports Nov. 23, 2016 7:28 pm3216d ago
Black Friday. It sounds ominous. But what doesn’t these days? So let’s have some fun, starting with the Nebraska-Iowa version …
Sports Nov. 22, 2016 4:36 pm3217d ago
IOWA CITY — Greg Mabin will go to the middle of the Kinnick Stadium field Friday afternoon, hug his family, …