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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
Columns & Sports Commentary Sep. 19, 2011 1:41 pm5168d ago
The possibilities seem to be several for Iowa State. We’re all just guessing here right now. So take your best …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 24, 2023 9:42 am933d ago
Let’s not kid ourselves. There’s plenty of meat on the discussion bone this week. Iowa stages its biggest comeback win …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Sep. 19, 2011 7:00 am5168d ago
Iowa’s next football opponent is Louisiana Monroe. No hyphen. Did you know there’s no hyphen? Do you really know the …
Columns & Sports Commentary Sep. 18, 2011 11:28 am5169d ago
This was, I think, the hardest AP Top 25 ballot I’ve constructed in my three years of doing this. First, …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Sep. 17, 2011 6:57 pm5170d ago
IOWA CITY – Desperate times call for desperate measures, necessity is the mother of invention, tough times don’t last but …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Sep. 17, 2011 3:52 pm5170d ago
IOWA CITY — Happy coach. Very happy coach.
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Sep. 17, 2011 10:36 am5170d ago
IOWA CITY — As people were climbing the steps from the railroad tracks near Kinnick to the stadium parking lot, …
Columns & Sports Commentary Sep. 16, 2011 4:37 pm5171d ago
I don’t know who’s playing in this Monday’s NFL game and don’t care. Neither should you. 6:30 p.m. — On …
Columns & Sports Commentary Sep. 16, 2011 3:52 pm5171d ago
All of the following were projected as starters in 2011 by Phil Steele’s College Football Yearbook. The choices are mine. …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Sep. 16, 2011 11:00 am5171d ago
The best call Gary Dolphin ever made wasn’t in front of a microphone. Given a choice this summer between taking …
Columns & Sports Commentary Sep. 15, 2011 4:19 pm5172d ago
That thing with Kirk Ferentz Tuesday and his responses to questions about Ferentz’s overtime strategy and Derrell Johnson-Koulianos — that was …
Columns & Sports Commentary Sep. 15, 2011 3:43 pm5172d ago
Hey, Iowa has a football game Saturday. Against Pittsburgh. That’s not Tennessee Tech or Louisiana-Monroe. It’s a real opponent. Paul …
Columns & Sports Commentary Sep. 15, 2011 2:36 pm5172d ago
Could this be a portent that the Big Ten is considering inviting Iowa State to join its cartel? Uh, no. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Sep. 15, 2011 7:02 am5172d ago
I wonder when excitement for Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball was last at the level it reached Wednesday night just because …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Sep. 14, 2011 12:22 pm5173d ago
Iowa’s last center of prominence in men’s basketball, someone who was a good offensive and defensive threat, was … I’m thinking, I’m …

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