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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 Jun. 7, 2011 6:28 am5272d ago
I’ve heard a lot of fans identify themselves as the best. They often seem to believe it. I’ve heard a …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jun. 6, 2011 2:35 pm5273d ago
One of my favorite pastimes on this blog is mocking the Big Ten for its pomposity, for thinking it belongs …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jun. 5, 2011 6:17 pm5274d ago
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – A little victory for Landon Cassill Sunday was bludgeoned by a ride into the Kansas Speedway …
News Jun. 5, 2011 4:25 pm5274d ago
Jordan Holm started wrestling again almost as soon as he was freed from prison. He had been a college wrestler. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jun. 3, 2011 6:10 pm5276d ago
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — If you’d been in the kinds of wrecks Landon Cassill was in the last two times …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jun. 3, 2011 1:28 pm5276d ago
It’s Iowa State’s TV game, and it’s on Fox Sports Net. Iowa-Iowa State on Sept. 10 in Ames, that is. …
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jun. 3, 2011 10:50 am5276d ago
Four of Iowa’s 13 nonconference men’s basketball games in the coming season are against teams that played in postseason tournaments …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jun. 2, 2011 11:10 am5277d ago
Generally, I don’t like to announce where I’m going because it makes it too easy for fellow criminal elements and …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jun. 1, 2011 9:03 pm5278d ago
The football programs of the University of Iowa and Maryville College of Maryville, Tenn., have at least two things in …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jun. 1, 2011 1:50 pm5278d ago
Phil Steele is the man, the myth, the legend among college football preseason list-compilers and magazine-preparers. The Mighty One has …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jun. 1, 2011 12:22 am5279d ago
This thing with Ohio State and tattoos and lying and Tressel and denying — it’s not good. I mean, it …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 31, 2011 1:32 pm5279d ago
My thought is this: You give yourself pompous, silly names and they’ll eventually come back to bite you. But this …
News May. 30, 2011 12:10 pm5280d ago
A telling moment about college football came last December. Ohio State announced five of its players would be suspended for …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 28, 2011 1:31 pm5282d ago
“I don’t take this lightly,” Tom Brands recently said with an intense tone that sounded way more NCAA Championships-week than …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 26, 2011 11:18 pm5284d ago
In fact, we didn’t know ye at all. We heard the 6-foot-3, 240-pound running back from Edwardsville, Ill. (near St. …

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