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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, 2015 6:10 pm3571d ago
INDIANAPOLIS — I don’t like press conferences. They typically aren’t natural, and often aren’t overly revealing. But sometimes you just …
Sports Dec. 4, 2015 5:01 pm3571d ago
INDIANAPOLIS — Much has been made in Iowa about disrespect and even so-called hate directed at he unbeaten Hawkeyes football …
Sports Dec. 5, 2015 1:31 pm3571d ago
INDIANAPOLIS – So here we are, Iowa is at the Big Ten football championship game in the role of underdog. …
Sports Dec. 4, 2015 3:08 pm3572d ago
Former Iowa linebacker Chad Greenway is the Minnesota Vikings’ nominee for this season’s NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year …
Sports Dec. 3, 2015 3:24 pm3573d ago
There’s no cherry-picking this week, for college football teams or forecasters. The supply of games is limited on the first …
Sports Dec. 2, 2015 2:47 pm3574d ago
This week’s Mike Hlas Podcast goes to Michigan to get the lowdown on Michigan State as we near the MSU-Iowa …
Sports Dec. 2, 2015 11:41 am3574d ago
Indianapolis in December. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t sound particularly glamorous. But for the football teams of Iowa and Michigan State, there’s …
Sports Dec. 1, 2015 4:54 pm3574d ago
IOWA CITY — A year ago this week, Iowa Athletic Director Gary Barta offered himself as a phone-interview subject to …
Sports Nov. 30, 2015 3:25 pm3576d ago
Google ‘perfect fit’ with ‘new coach,’ and you get almost 50,000 entries. New coaches are all perfect fits when they’re …
Sports Nov. 29, 2015 2:20 pm3577d ago
If the Nebraska-Iowa football game of next year is meaningful, it seems safe to say ABC will again place it …
Sports Nov. 29, 2015 1:18 pm3577d ago
Many things in this world are tiresome. Like tires. Who gets excited about tires? But you’ve got to have them …
Sports Nov. 29, 2015 1:18 pm3577d ago
Welcome to our last of 13 editions of Big Ten Numbers. We laughed, we cried. And that was just watching …
Sports Nov. 28, 2015 6:10 pm3577d ago
Michigan State’s football team, like Iowa’s, isn’t too concerned with what the masses want. The Spartans receive only the third-most …
Sports Nov. 27, 2015 9:04 pm3578d ago
LINCOLN, Neb. — Fables. Fairy tale. Fundamentals. Ferentz. How does a football team get to 12-0? By suspending its best …
Sports Nov. 27, 2015 4:17 pm3579d ago
LINCOLN, Neb. — Well, this is kind of tense and weird, wouldn’t you say? A 4-yard pick-6, an unsportsmanlike penalty …