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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
Podcasts Oct. 30, 2012 10:08 am4760d ago
The Iowa football team and its fans have been traveling over rocky ground lately. Here on the Oct. 29 Mike …
Columns & Sports Commentary Oct. 29, 2012 4:28 pm4761d ago
Iowa fans, and anybody’s fans, this could be your team and coach on Saturday. Or the Saturday after that. Michigan …
Columns & Sports Commentary Oct. 29, 2012 3:18 pm4761d ago
Jake Knott has been one of the best college football stories of the last decade in Iowa. With no fanfare, …
Columns & Sports Commentary Oct. 28, 2012 10:34 pm4761d ago
1. BCS Madness: The potential for the whopper of all BCS controversies is very real with the season two-thirds completed. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Oct. 28, 2012 3:30 pm4762d ago
On who they’ve beaten, I’d rank Kansas State and Notre Dame above Alabama and Oregon. On the eyeball test, it’s …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Oct. 28, 2012 2:57 pm4762d ago
I almost tapped out Sunday morning. The comments regarding Iowa Hawkeyes football at my TheGazette.com blog, The Hlog, were 100 …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Oct. 27, 2012 6:35 pm4763d ago
EVANSTON, Ill. – So let’s say you’re an Iowa football season ticket-holder and you get a call from a Nebraska …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Oct. 27, 2012 6:27 pm4763d ago
EVANSTON, Ill. — The abrupt ending is due to my camera battery dying. I’m not exactly Steven Spielberg, folks.
Columns & Sports Commentary Oct. 27, 2012 10:16 am4763d ago
EVANSTON, Ill. — Tailgates at Northwestern are different. Hard liquor is allowed. So is champagne. And shrimp cocktails. Well, shrimp …
Columns & Sports Commentary Oct. 25, 2012 6:11 pm4765d ago
Hlastradamus went 0-5 last week. He says there may have been some sort of psychic disturbance in the solar system …
Columns & Sports Commentary Oct. 25, 2012 2:42 pm4765d ago
Hayden Fry got in touch with me this week. He had something he wanted people to know. “People need to …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Oct. 25, 2012 10:00 am4765d ago
Rose Bowl! Rose Bowl! For all the verbal and written dirt shoveled on Iowa’s football team since last Saturday night, …
Podcasts Oct. 25, 2012 7:24 am4765d ago
This week’s Mike Hlas Podcast features Scott Siepker, who plays the character in the famous “Iowa Nice” video and is …
Columns & Sports Commentary Oct. 24, 2012 1:45 pm4766d ago
If I could, I’d watch at least some of these games on Saturday: Michigan State at Wisconsin TCU at Oklahoma …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Oct. 23, 2012 5:00 pm4767d ago
IOWA CITY – I was leaving a Cedar Rapids eatery early Sunday afternoon, and had to wait while a fellow …


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