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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 Sep. 29, 2015 4:22 pm3694d 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 am3695d 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 pm3695d 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 pm3695d 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 am3696d 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 pm3696d 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 pm3697d ago
IOWA CITY – Those were good years Kirk Ferentz and Dan McCarney shared as assistant coaches at Iowa in the …
Sports Sep. 26, 2015 5:21 pm3697d ago
IOWA CITY – Iowa’s C.J. Beathard completed all 14 of his passes in the half for 2xx yards. The Hawkeyes …
Sports Sep. 25, 2015 6:13 pm3698d ago
Iowa is paying North Texas $900,000 to play football at Kinnick Stadium Saturday. In 2016, Iowa will pay Miami (Ohio) …
Sports Sep. 25, 2015 6:14 pm3698d ago
You saw the headline. North Texas is No. 146. That’s according to Jeff Sagarin, the mastermind of the Sagarin Ratings …
Sports Sep. 25, 2015 6:14 pm3698d ago
I bought a ‘smart TV” last week. That’s kind of like ‘jumbo shrimp” and ‘plastic silverware,” isn’t it? Oxymorons, I …
Sports Sep. 24, 2015 12:19 pm3700d ago
Hlastradamus doesn’t focus well in the summer. He gets distracted by the 500-year-old girls in their summer clothes in the …
Sports Sep. 23, 2015 6:24 pm3700d ago
Derrick Willies is going long this season. A lot. Willies’ Trinity Valley Community College football team in Athens, Texas, has …
Sports Sep. 22, 2015 3:48 pm3701d ago
Monday was the last night of summer of Cedar Rapids. Maybe the calendar says that is tonight, but baseball fans …
Sports Sep. 21, 2015 5:41 pm3702d ago
Listening to Dan McCarney on a teleconference Monday after not having been around him for several years, you wouldn’t have …

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