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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
Sports Jul. 4, 2025 9:50 pm63d ago
Cedar Rapids’ 12-time PGA Tour champion has a decision to make next February: To stay on that Tour or switch to the Champions Tour for 50-and-overs.
Iowa Basketball Jul. 1, 2025 3:50 pm66d ago
Iowa point guard is a consensus Top 16 pick of those who make way-too-early mock drafts for national publications.
Iowa Football Jul. 1, 2025 2:38 pm66d ago
Softball, basketball, bicycling, even bartending. DeJean has made the rounds in Philadelphia and Iowa, and with adoring fans everywhere.
Sports Jul. 1, 2025 10:47 am66d ago
Garza had spent last three seasons with Minnesota after spending a year with the Detroit Pistons.
Iowa Football Jun. 29, 2025 6:00 am69d ago
Iowa’s 27th-year coach says other college coaches are using his age against him in recruiting, insisting it isn’t anything that should concern would-be Hawkeyes
Iowa Basketball Jun. 27, 2025 12:17 pm70d ago
Sandfort likely will play on Thunder’s NBA Summer League team in Las Vegas next month.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 25, 2025 10:42 pm72d ago
The Hawkeyes got the best of Rutgers’ Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey, as well as No. 11 draftee Cedric Coward of Washington State. Things didn’t go as well against the Nos. 13, 20, 21, 25, 27 picks, but you can’t win them all.
Sports Jun. 25, 2025 11:22 am72d ago
Clark has made just one of her last 23 3-point attempts for the Indiana Fever. That didn’t stop her team from winning Tuesday night, however.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 24, 2025 3:58 pm73d ago
Iowa’s Bennett Stirtz strongly considered turning pro after last season at Drake, but instead is spending a fourth year with Ben McCollum, this time at Iowa.
Iowa State Basketball Jun. 22, 2025 6:00 am76d ago
Haliburton’s incredible postseason run with the Indiana Pacers reaches an NBA Finals Game 7 in Oklahoma City.
Sports Jun. 20, 2025 4:48 pm77d ago
Redshirt freshman forward Cooper Koch is the only returning scholarship player on Iowa’s roster.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 19, 2025 5:06 pm78d ago
Senior guard from Amarillo has 178 career 3-pointers in three seasons of major-college basketball. His winding college path concludes with a year at Iowa.
Sports Jun. 18, 2025 6:00 am80d ago
When a column about the NBA Finals takes two seconds for artificial intelligence to write, it’s time for all of us to be afraid, be very afraid.
Sports Jun. 9, 2025 9:50 am88d ago
Four years after going to Mexico for a psychedelic, plant-based treatment to alleviate symptoms of brain injury from years of head trauma, the former Iowa All-American football player remains healthy, in good cheer, and ready to help others with mental health issues.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 7, 2025 3:28 pm90d ago
Gatens, one of Iowa’s all-time leading scorers, is returning to Bruce Pearl’s Auburn staff