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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 Feb. 26, 2015 12:24 pm3853d ago
We’ve become conditioned not to make positive declarations about the Iowa men’s basketball team. From last season and segments of …
Sports Feb. 25, 2015 10:50 am3854d ago
This is Iowa’s next-to-last home men’s basketball game. Time flies. Once, someone told me ‘Time flies, why don’t you?” I …
Sports Feb. 24, 2015 4:45 pm3855d ago
I like Keith Olbermann. I don’t agree with all of his commentary on his ‘Olbermann” ESPN program. But I don’t …
Sports Feb. 23, 2015 12:02 pm3856d ago
That was a pretty good 5-day stretch for the three Iowa state university men’s basketball teams. Perfect, really. Iowa State …
Sports Feb. 22, 2015 6:11 pm3857d ago
LINCOLN, Neb. – The last time Iowa destroyed back-to-back Big Ten men’s basketball teams this way was 1944, and it …
Sports Feb. 22, 2015 2:05 pm3857d ago
Tonight is Academy Awards Night. But before the Oscars, Iowa plays Nebraska in basketball. I’ll be on the Big Red …
Sports Feb. 19, 2015 10:37 pm3860d ago
IOWA CITY – Iowa dunked the basketball seven times Thursday night. Adam Woodbury, the 7-foot-1 Iowa center who is the …
Sports Feb. 19, 2015 10:32 pm3860d ago
The Rutgers-Iowa men’s basketball rivalry is as old as the hills, as deep as the oceans, as fiery as Sofia …
Sports Feb. 17, 2015 9:44 pm3862d ago
Rutgers in the Big Ten is still a foreign concept to many. With the Scarlet Knights facing Iowa Thursday night …
Sports Feb. 17, 2015 11:53 am3862d ago
Iowa basketball fans, I’m doubling down. A week ago, I suggested the Hawkeyes were in a good position to challenge …
Sports Feb. 16, 2015 3:34 pm3863d ago
Here’s what makes Northern Iowa one of the great national basketball stories going right now: You would never think the …
Sports Feb. 15, 2015 11:49 am3864d ago
What Iowa probably needs right now is to play Northwestern. Fun Fact No. 1 will explain why. So will Fun …
Sports Feb. 14, 2015 7:12 pm3865d ago
AMES – As good and appreciated as 14th-ranked Iowa State’s men’s basketball 79-59 win over No. 20 West Virginia was …
Sports Feb. 12, 2015 9:55 pm3867d ago
IOWA CITY — This one was hard on Iowa’s eyes. Minnesota gouged the Hawkeyes’ men’s basketball team for nine steals …
Sports Feb. 11, 2015 4:17 pm3868d ago
Are basketball statistics really fun facts? It’s in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Me, I’d rather have stuff …