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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 Jan. 7, 2015 1:44 pm3903d ago
The parallels between the football programs at Iowa and Oklahoma are many. Both programs have head coaches who just finished …
Sports Jan. 5, 2015 3:29 pm3905d ago
1. Iowa is the only team in Divison I with two road wins over ranked opponents (North Carolina, Ohio State). …
Sports Jan. 2, 2015 1:07 pm3908d ago
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The TaxSlayer Bowl may be a transcendent football game after all. Before the game, a group of …
Sports Jan. 2, 2015 10:56 am3908d ago
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – They had a Super Bowl here 10 years ago. I’ve spent the last several days and nights …
Sports Jan. 2, 2015 9:43 am3908d ago
What’s more fun than a TaxSlayer Bowl? Surely not an Armed Forces Bowl. That sounds a bit militant. And definitely …
Sports Jan. 1, 2015 3:18 pm3909d ago
Some people will make predictions on anything, even TaxSlayer Bowls. Here’s proof: John Adams, Knoxville News Sentinel: Tennessee 30, Iowa …
Sports Dec. 31, 2014 4:06 pm3910d ago
It was kind of an odd sight from my sixth-floor downtown Jacksonville hotel room. The familiar No. 88 Camaro driven …
Dec. 31, 2014 3:52 pm3910d ago
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s fitting Butch Jones often wears Tennessee orange on the sideline, because the Volunteers’ head football coach …
Dec. 30, 2014 1:27 pm3911d ago
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. – Thirteen other Big Ten schools may not want to hear it, but they’re better off with …
Sports Dec. 30, 2014 3:56 pm3911d ago
This one counts. You can go 9-4 or 4-9 in the nonconference, but go 18-0 in the Big Ten and …
Dec. 28, 2014 10:21 pm3913d ago
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – How powerful a hold does football have on Americans? Though the sky was blue, the temperature …
Dec. 28, 2014 8:49 am3913d ago
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As an enterprising reporter – or as someone who wanted an excuse to get out of Jacksonville …
Dec. 26, 2014 11:07 am3915d ago
The math supports what you may have believed about the TaxSlayer Bowl in the first place. No, not the part …
Dec. 22, 2014 5:53 pm3919d ago
What better way is there to tip off Christmas Week than to play a basketball game against the North Florida …
Dec. 22, 2014 12:21 pm3919d ago
The Iowa men’s basketball team shot 46.3 percent from the field last season, which was pretty good. It was 65th-best …