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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 Mar. 26, 2011 3:15 pm5345d ago
Note: Videos are at the end of this column. DES MOINES – Amid a pie-eating contest during a timeout, fans …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 24, 2011 5:57 pm5347d ago
We were all younger then. Well, I wasn’t even born. March 24, 1956. Iowa vs. the San Francisco Dons for …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 24, 2011 5:20 pm5347d ago
Recruitniks mostly like the old veteran recruiting writers. I say, let high school kids tell me about high school kids. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 24, 2011 2:48 pm5347d ago
The 9-game Big Ten football season, which is on the horizon, can’t get here soon enough. Wednesday was Rhabdo Roundup …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 23, 2011 6:27 pm5348d ago
IOWA CITY – Never say never when it comes to a controversial story that doesn’t have a tidy ending, so …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 23, 2011 2:39 pm5348d ago
COACH FERENTZ: Welcome, everybody. First of all, just want to thank the committee that did the research and analysis study …
Sports Mar. 23, 2011 12:00 am5349d ago
Landon Cassill is getting the chance to show his stuff over entire races in NASCAR’s top series. The 21-year-old from …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 22, 2011 2:04 pm5349d ago
His name is Johnny Sullivan. He is from Clinton. He knows how to throw a football and knows someone who …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 22, 2011 1:26 pm5349d ago
Gil Brandt, the Dallas Cowboys’ chief talent scout and vice president in charge of player personnel from 1960 to 1988, …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 22, 2011 11:25 am5349d ago
This isn’t a contest. It’s to see what’s on your mind regarding Iowa football, and what kind of questions you …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 21, 2011 5:05 pm5350d ago
Four minutes isn’t enough time to cover everything, like the bizarre fouls near the end of the Pitt-Butler game, or …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 21, 2011 4:19 pm5350d ago
This is quite a finish to a pro basketball game in Spain, enhanced by the annoucing of that nation’s answer …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 21, 2011 4:03 pm5350d ago
I first met Bruce Pearl in the summer of 1986. He was my seatmate on a flight from Chicago to …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 21, 2011 2:04 pm5350d ago
On Sunday night, Purdue and Illinois gave performances in the NCAA tourney that were worthy of their one-and-done Big Ten …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 20, 2011 2:06 am5352d ago
The NCAA is a curious organization. Everyone else in sports and show business understands you don’t head-to-head with blockbuster events. …

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