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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
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jan. 8, 2014 3:19 pm4324d ago
According to Hawkeyesports.com as of 4 p.m., Tuesday, Iowa has two unfilled nonconference football dates in 2017. One is Sept. …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jan. 8, 2014 3:02 pm4324d ago
In my business, you get conditioned to be skeptical. When coaches say things, there often are motives and agendas involved. …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jan. 7, 2014 9:16 pm4325d ago
AMES – Comparing any college basketball player to LeBron James would be somewhere squarely between silly and screwy. But as …
Sports Jan. 7, 2014 10:45 am4325d ago
It’s not hyperbole. No professional golfer in the world is on a bigger roll than Zach Johnson of Cedar Rapids. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jan. 6, 2014 3:25 pm4326d ago
Iowa State football made a splash Monday. The announcement that former Kansas head coach Mark Mangino was hired as Paul …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jan. 6, 2014 1:41 pm4326d ago
Fran McCaffery did what he needed to do Monday morning. The Iowa men’s basketball coach’s momentary meltdown at Wisconsin Sunday …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jan. 5, 2014 9:16 pm4327d ago
News Jan. 5, 2014 10:21 am4327d ago
A few weeks ago, we got the first Iowa-Iowa State meeting of ranked men’s basketball teams since 1987. But what’s …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jan. 2, 2014 12:07 pm4330d ago
I wrote this column for the April 17, 1994 Gazette, days after Johnny Orr retired as Iowa State’s men’s basketball …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jan. 1, 2014 6:27 pm4331d ago
TAMPA, Fla. — It wasn’t as if a lot of illusions got shattered. When Iowa’s football team faced teams that …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jan. 1, 2014 9:44 am4331d ago
TAMPA, Fla. — Having a lovely time, wish you were here. I’m not rubbing it in about how cold it …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jan. 1, 2014 8:46 am4331d ago
1. LSU’s bowl record is 22-21-1. Its first bowl game was a 3-2 loss to TCU in the 1936 Sugar …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Dec. 31, 2013 11:44 am4332d ago
There are coaches who have won stacks of conference-championships, who won national-titles, who were and are genuine national household names. …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Dec. 31, 2013 9:23 am4332d ago
TAMPA, Fla. — Is Iowa football ready for prime-time at noon? Within Iowa and across the Big Ten, the Hawkeyes …
Columns & Sports Commentary Dec. 30, 2013 2:32 pm4333d ago
CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. — If you want professional photographs from this event, look around TheGazette.com on Monday afternoon/evening. The Gazette …

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