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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 Dec. 30, 2013 8:17 am4333d ago
TAMPA, Fla. – James Morris and his younger brother, Jake, stayed in a big hotel, saw the Gulf of Mexico, …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Dec. 29, 2013 12:19 pm4334d ago
TAMPA, Fla. – Oh, how the Southeastern Conference gets on the last nerve of so many Big Ten football fans. …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Dec. 28, 2013 7:45 pm4335d ago
TAMPA, Fla. – It’s become a college football cliché. Pick against teams that don’t want to be at their bowl …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Dec. 28, 2013 2:50 pm4335d ago
TAMPA, Fla. — Now this is how you run a blog: Have ace Gazette photographer Jim Slosiarek give you photos, …
Columns & Sports Commentary Dec. 28, 2013 12:33 pm4335d ago
A disclaimer: I don’t really find the concept of a Nile Kinnick bobblehead particularly tasteful. That said, I happened into …
News Dec. 26, 2013 10:28 am4337d ago
“Football in Paradise.” That’s what the Outback Bowl calls itself. That’s what Iowa’s football program has been calling it in tweets …
Columns & Sports Commentary Dec. 24, 2013 2:24 pm4339d ago
Apparently, media access to LSU’s football players will be fairly limited in the days leading up to the Outback Bowl. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Dec. 23, 2013 4:02 pm4340d ago
This is purely subjective, believe it or not. I’m basing it on won-lost records and the quality of competition. The …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Dec. 21, 2013 9:50 pm4342d ago
IOWA CITY – The lid never lifted off of Carver-Hawkeye Arena this time. The big buildup of the nation’s No. …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Dec. 21, 2013 10:57 am4342d ago
And so marks the end of Iowa’s nonconference men’s basketball schedule. This is the very definition of going out with …
Columns & Sports Commentary Dec. 20, 2013 12:58 pm4343d ago
The real bowl season starts Saturday. You can have your BCS championship games and Rose Bowls and Sugar Bowls. You …
Columns & Sports Commentary Dec. 19, 2013 1:55 pm4344d ago
You Iowa football fans lead busy lives. You need your news about Outback Bowl participant LSU in one easy-to-use reading …
High School Basketball Dec. 19, 2013 11:01 am4344d ago
This week’s guest on the Mike Hlas Podcast is former Iowa men’s basketball coach George Raveling, who was given the …
Columns & Sports Commentary Dec. 19, 2013 9:49 am4344d ago
With Connecticut’s 53-51 men’s basketball loss to Stanford Wednesday, Iowa State was left as the only one of the 351 …
News Dec. 18, 2013 3:45 pm4345d ago
IOWA CITY – What happened at Penn State last week was great for the Nittany Lions, great for college wrestling, …


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