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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. 19, 2011 10:28 pm5352d ago
We at SourceMedia pay for Associated Press photos. A good thing, it is. It’s also a good thing we have …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 19, 2011 3:24 pm5352d ago
Today’s selection comes to us from Paul Simon. It’s new, and it’s called “The Afterlife.”
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 18, 2011 2:31 am5354d ago
I loved Morehead State”s win, hated Princeton’s loss to Kentucky, and was ambivalent about Butler’s last-second victory over Old Dominion. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 17, 2011 12:36 pm5354d ago
Every year at this time we hear about how players at the NFL Combine did with the Wonderlic Personnel Test. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 17, 2011 1:58 am5355d ago
Did that headline grab your attention? Slate.com has yearly feature before the NCAA tourney called “Teams We Hate.” This year’s …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 16, 2011 2:32 pm5355d ago
New Mexico beat Texas-El Paso in an NIT first-round game Tuesday night in Albuquerque. The Lobos advance. But the better …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 16, 2011 2:03 pm5355d ago
Look, anyone can pick the winner of the Notre Dame-Akron game. (Notre Dame, right?) But let’s say you were living …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 16, 2011 12:13 pm5355d ago
For Iowans, this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament is like watching the Iditarod or Tour de France or “Celebrity Apprentice.” …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 16, 2011 1:06 am5356d ago
All right, let’s try this. Haiku, for the uninitiated, is three lines. Generally, they consist of five syllables, then even …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 15, 2011 5:01 pm5356d ago
So Cezar has said yes to Oklahoma State’s basketball program, and no to Iowa’s. Well, then what am I supposed …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 15, 2011 1:53 pm5356d ago
Here’s some weird, wild stuff. Two of the 10 freshmen college basketball players honored today by the United States Basketball …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 15, 2011 12:12 pm5356d ago
I took all the top seeds. They won’t all get to the Final Four, but a lot more No. 1-seeds …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 14, 2011 11:37 pm5357d ago
So ends the magical, mysterious recruitment of Bellflower, Calif., point guard Cezar Guerrero by the Iowa men’s basketball program. Cezar …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 14, 2011 5:16 pm5357d ago
Note: A little of this material is repeated from my Sunday night Hlog post about the Michigan-Iowa matchups of the …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 13, 2011 11:24 pm5358d ago
Sunday night’s “Fab Five” documentary on ESPN stirred up a lot of memories for this sportswriter. Jan. 10, 1992: Michigan …

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