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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 Jul. 19, 2013 2:38 pm4497d ago
It was a day for battling at Muirfield, with wind and rock-hard greens and fairways. Zach Johnson of Cedar Rapids, …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jul. 19, 2013 9:30 am4498d ago
The Big Ten probably won’t fill Chicago’s air with eye-raising sound bytes at its football media days this week. Name …
Sports Jul. 18, 2013 11:23 am4499d ago
At round’s end, Zach Johnson remains the first-round leader or co-leader of the Open Championship at Muirfield in Gullane, Scotland. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jul. 17, 2013 11:44 am4500d ago
People who don’t like sports are irritated with the cost ESPN adds to their pay-TV bills. But according to this …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jul. 16, 2013 10:28 pm4500d ago
No, I didn’t attend Tuesday’s opening day of the three-day Southeastern Conference football media days. But I have the transcripts. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jul. 16, 2013 1:34 pm4500d ago
Ninth-place never sounds good in a team sport, but it was the best the U.S. could get in World University …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jul. 15, 2013 4:40 pm4501d ago
The University of Iowa football program came out with a video featuring its offseason strength and conditioning activities. The song …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jul. 15, 2013 2:19 pm4501d ago
In lieu of an actual essay, here are four scattered short subjects: 1. Iowa baseball has a new head coach. …
Sports Jul. 14, 2013 9:35 pm4502d ago
SILVIS, Ill. – Sunday’s John Deere Classic gave the PGA Tour a great story and its youngest tournament-champion in 82 …
Sports Jul. 14, 2013 8:01 pm4502d ago
Had this 31-foot chip from the fringe of the 18th green not gone in, Zach Johnson would have won the …
Sports Jul. 13, 2013 7:11 pm4503d ago
SILVIS, Ill. – So now we’ll see if it is Back-to-Back Zach at the John Deere Classic. Though Zach Johnson is …
Sports Jul. 12, 2013 7:56 pm4504d ago
SILVIS, Ill. – A golfer can spend more time in the sand than David Hasselhoff and do more scrambling than …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jul. 12, 2013 11:08 am4505d ago
Football is a collision sport. Former Iowa quarterback Drew Tate had been starting to make a name for himself in …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jul. 11, 2013 6:38 pm4505d ago
SILVIS, Ill. – The great news for University of Iowa golfer Steven Ihm is that he made six birdies in …
Sports Jul. 11, 2013 5:39 pm4505d ago
SILVIS, Ill. – There was a time when Zach Johnson didn’t contend for titles at John Deere Classics. Or come …

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