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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 Nov. 27, 2015 9:22 am3579d ago
Iowa’s football team is a slight favorite over Nebraska today, which means we should have variance among forecasters from coast …
Sports Nov. 26, 2015 11:27 am3580d ago
Hlastradamus loves holidays. The prophet was celebrating the Fourth of July hundreds of years before America was discovered (with people …
Sports Nov. 26, 2015 1:24 pm3580d ago
The tension in Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium Friday could be so thick that you could cut it with a — stop …
Sports Nov. 25, 2015 11:40 am3581d ago
Sports Illustrated’s Albert Chen, who wrote the story on the Iowa football team for this week’s issue that has the …
Sports Nov. 25, 2015 2:42 pm3581d ago
The last time Iowa’s football team went through a regular-season without a loss was 1922. My math says that was …
Sports Nov. 25, 2015 10:29 am3581d ago
Hey everybody, have you heard Iowa’s football team is 11-0? That means the Iowa-Nebraska regular-season finale is important. But fun. …
Sports Nov. 24, 2015 4:28 pm3582d ago
IOWA CITY — People who believe in jinxes are, as a rule, saps and suckers. They’re more vulnerable to schemes …
Sports Nov. 23, 2015 2:14 pm3583d ago
All right, Iowa, you’re 11-0 in football. That’s new stuff. How do teams handle being 11-0? Well, of the 12 …
Sports Nov. 22, 2015 3:07 pm3584d ago
You’re either selling hope or recent success in college football. If you have neither, you have problems. Iowa State Athletic …
Sports Nov. 22, 2015 11:07 am3584d ago
The Big Ten got stood on its ear Saturday. Everyone who had both Michigan State winning at Ohio State and …
Sports Nov. 21, 2015 6:10 pm3584d ago
IOWA CITY — Of course, there was hugging on the sideline and loud cheering in the stands. But there wasn’t …
Sports Nov. 21, 2015 12:29 pm3585d ago
IOWA CITY — Baby, it’s cold outside. This really wouldn’t have been an ideal day for an outdoor wrestling meet. …
Sports Nov. 20, 2015 10:30 am3586d ago
That isn’t really the ‘World’s Largest Drum’ in the accompanying photo, no matter what Purdue claims. This story bears that …
Sports Nov. 20, 2015 10:30 am3586d ago
True confession: Before the Illinois State-Iowa football game of Sept. 5, I was prepared to skip postgame interviews of Iowa’s …
Sports Nov. 19, 2015 4:51 pm3586d ago
Hlastradamus is old school. A lot of your 200- and 300-year-old young whippersnappers have their analytics and other newfangled ways …