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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. 29, 2015 2:20 pm3633d 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 pm3633d 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 pm3633d 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 pm3634d 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 pm3635d 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 pm3635d ago
LINCOLN, Neb. — Well, this is kind of tense and weird, wouldn’t you say? A 4-yard pick-6, an unsportsmanlike penalty …
Sports Nov. 27, 2015 9:22 am3635d 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 am3636d 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 pm3636d 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 am3637d 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 pm3637d 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 am3637d 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 pm3638d 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 pm3639d 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 pm3640d ago
You’re either selling hope or recent success in college football. If you have neither, you have problems. Iowa State Athletic …

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