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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 Feb. 15, 2011 9:32 pm5384d ago
I know I’ve seen teammates score 30 points each in a basketball game I’ve covered. I’m just not sure where, …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 15, 2011 2:15 pm5384d ago
OK, Red Grange, Magic Johnson, Archie Griffin, Jesse Owens, Tom Harmon, Nile Kinnick, etc. The Big Ten Network has been …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 15, 2011 11:13 am5384d ago
It has been suggested no network has put as much of a marketing effort behind a single announcer as the Big …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 14, 2011 3:52 pm5385d ago
When Rick Hartzell was the athletics director at Northern Iowa for nine years until January 2008, I wrote a column …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 14, 2011 2:09 pm5385d ago
The Bill Murray segment of the PGA Tour season ended Sunday, and now it’s time for golf’s stars to command …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 13, 2011 10:12 pm5386d ago
I’ve been mostly home-bound the last five days. I had a minor surgery (and yes, it’s true, it’s only minor …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 13, 2011 12:40 pm5386d ago
Harrison Barnes of Ames is coming around for North Carolina. He was hyped to the nth degree entering his freshman …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 11, 2011 9:15 pm5388d ago
Most of you good people are not from Cedar Rapids. Some of you never have reason to step foot in …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 10, 2011 9:18 pm5389d ago
I’m told Northern Iowa men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson attended Wednesday night’s Kirkwood-Iowa Central junior college game in Fort Dodge. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 10, 2011 2:24 pm5389d ago
NFLmocks.com. One of an endless array of blogs about the April NFL Draft. A million mock drafts, a million people …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 10, 2011 1:08 pm5389d ago
The first and foremost battle Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery obviously has is to make his team viable in …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 8, 2011 9:59 pm5391d ago
Sometimes the grass is greener somewhere else, sometimes it just snows. There are five men who coached NCAA Division I …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 8, 2011 2:22 pm5391d ago
This is mesmerizing. It’s viral. It’s …HYPNOTOSIS! As one of the announcers astutely asks, “How are we not hypnotized?”
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 7, 2011 3:34 pm5392d ago
Rhabdomyolysis was nothing more than 14 random letters for many of us until two weeks ago when it was a …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 7, 2011 3:03 pm5392d ago
(Note to Hlog readers: This is an extension of the post I put up Sunday about recruiting and distance. I used raw …

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