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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 May. 9, 2011 5:57 pm5301d ago
You have to tip your hat to the University of Iowa, which made more of a profit on its bowl-game …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 9, 2011 1:32 pm5301d ago
Just a guess here, but I’ll bet the wind whips off the prairie in Manhattan, Kan., in early December. Here’s …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 7, 2011 2:44 pm5303d ago
You will never hear me say Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany isn’t a smart – make that brilliant – man. …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 6, 2011 5:30 am5305d ago
I don’t pretend to be a modern-day music maven. I just know what I like. So here are five choices. …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 5, 2011 5:20 am5306d ago
OK, when I asked you to rank Big Ten stadiums other than Kinnick Stadium recently, none of you gave Northwestern’s …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 4, 2011 5:24 am5307d ago
This blog post is not what it’s all about, and it does get better than this. OK, let me backtrack. …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 3, 2011 5:41 am5307d ago
A couple weeks ago, I asked you to rank the 11 Big Ten cities that weren’t Iowa City. Here is …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 2, 2011 1:02 am5309d ago
Adrian Clayborn was a lot of things for the Iowa football team the last few years, but cultural commentator wasn’t …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 30, 2011 4:37 pm5310d ago
The morning after last December’s Insight Bowl, I think you’d have said the fifth-round of the 2011 NFL draft would …
Apr. 29, 2011 4:43 pm5311d ago
We had a question. Did Iowa defensive end Adrian Clayborn wait one year too long to come out for the …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 29, 2011 1:35 pm5311d ago
With the 20th selection in the 2011 NFL Draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select … Adrian Clayborn, defensive end, Iowa. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 28, 2011 4:22 pm5312d ago
The National Football Foundation released the names of the players and coaches on its College Football Hall of Fame ballot …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 28, 2011 1:25 am5313d ago
Buttons everywhere. A perfectly good dress shirt ruined. Why? Because he’s Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands, that’s why. The following …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 27, 2011 8:49 pm5313d ago
There’s no hiding behind polls or pundits. Either you have players selected in the NFL draft or you don’t. Since …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 27, 2011 3:23 pm5313d ago
No National Football League quarterback of impact ever played that position at the University of Iowa. Thirty-eight former Hawkeyes were …


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