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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 Oct. 4, 2015 10:25 pm3632d ago
I got this email Sunday morning from someone who isn’t from the extended Iowa Hawkeye football family: ‘Bet the farm …
Sports Oct. 4, 2015 10:03 pm3632d ago
The opening week of Big Ten play (other than a Rutgers-Penn State game on Sept. 19 that you had every …
Sports Oct. 3, 2015 9:41 pm3633d ago
MADISON, Wis. – ‘Once you hear them be quiet, that’s what you want to do,’ Iowa cornerback Desmond King said …
Sports Oct. 3, 2015 1:48 pm3634d ago
It’s just a one-score difference. But the mood in Madison is indigo. After having relative success moving the ball via …
Sports Oct. 2, 2015 4:50 pm3635d ago
Some weeks, it’s difficult to find predictions on an Iowa game because of the opponent. It wasn’t really necessary to …
Sports Oct. 2, 2015 4:14 pm3635d ago
You shouldn’t look to others for validation. They don’t know what’s in your head and your heart. The same applies …
Sports Oct. 1, 2015 4:13 pm3636d ago
This has been the autumn of Hlastradamus’ discontent. I don’t know why. It’s just fun to write nonsense like that …
Sports Oct. 1, 2015 4:13 pm3636d ago
We go from the least-fun game of Iowa’s football season (North Texas) to objective followers, to perhaps the most-fun to …
Sports Sep. 29, 2015 4:22 pm3638d ago
IOWA CITY – C.J. Beathard said Tuesday that his brother ‘has been killing it.” The night before in a phone …
High School Basketball Sep. 29, 2015 9:45 am3638d ago
It's Iowa-Wisconsin Week, so the guest on this week's Mike Hlas Podcast is Jeff Potrykus, who covers the Wisconsin Badgers for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Sports Sep. 28, 2015 11:06 pm3638d ago
There is one Iowa Hawkeyes field goal that was longer than the one Marshall Koehn made to defeat Pittsburgh on …
Sports Sep. 28, 2015 1:23 pm3639d ago
First things first, former Iowa defensive back Micah Hyde has a future in broadcasting if he wants it. Hyde is …
Sports Sep. 28, 2015 12:12 am3639d ago
The nonsense is over. No more games against Kansas for you, Rutgers. No more Hawaii (0 points at Ohio State, …
Sports Sep. 27, 2015 11:59 pm3639d ago
Saturday is a bright red opportunity for Iowa football. To say the winner of the Iowa-Wisconsin game in Madison will …
Sports Sep. 26, 2015 9:23 pm3640d ago
IOWA CITY – Those were good years Kirk Ferentz and Dan McCarney shared as assistant coaches at Iowa in the …