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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. 5, 2010 4:00 pm5671d ago
It takes more than a little courage for a corporate entity like the NBA’s Phoenix Suns to make a political …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 5, 2010 1:28 pm5671d ago
I was all set to forward you good people the news that Chris Dufresne of the Los Angeles Times has …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 4, 2010 9:09 pm5672d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – There was a time, kids, when major-college basketball teams had seniors. They would spend four years at …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 4, 2010 11:06 am5672d ago
I don’t know who or what makes up nationalchamps.net, but it’s been around since 1999. I also know it has a …
Columns & Sports Commentary Aug. 13, 2021 10:40 am1554d ago
I took up golf three years ago. My doctor told me I didn’t have enough frustration and insanity in my …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 3, 2010 2:05 pm5673d ago
Unhappy news from Ames. Iowa State basketball player Charles Boozer was arrested Saturday for allegedly slapping and kicking an unidentified …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 3, 2010 11:43 am5673d ago
Each month, until this issue of Big Ten expansion is settled, I will have my Expansion Big Ten. This is …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 1, 2010 8:25 pm5675d ago
Melsahn Basabe, a 6-foot-7 forward from Glen Cove, N.Y., committed to play for the Iowa men’s basketball program on Saturday. …
Columns & Sports Commentary May. 1, 2010 1:34 pm5675d ago
What would life be if all of us were honest all the livelong day? Chaos, that’s what. And not the …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 30, 2010 5:30 pm5676d ago
Patriots Football Weekly, the self-described official newspaper of the New England Patriots, said yes in this item from this blog …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 30, 2010 11:51 am5676d ago
The Big Ten’s committee of faculty representatives voted Friday to waive a league rule barring athletes from transferring from one Big Ten …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 30, 2010 11:17 am5676d ago
Paddy O’Prado, the horse owned by a cartel that consists 90 percent of Iowans, will carry National Museum of Racing …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 30, 2010 11:05 am5677d ago
Bob Bruce, host of WMT-AM’s Bob Bruce Radio Experience, is a reader of newspaper Web sites. Which, besides the fact …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 29, 2010 2:30 pm5677d ago
Jarrod Uthoff, 6-foot-8 senior-to-be at Cedar Rapids Jefferson, is looking more and more like big-time recruit all the time. His …
Columns & Sports Commentary Apr. 29, 2010 1:42 pm5677d ago
Some interesting news on Northern Iowa men’s basketball comes to us courtesy of this story from the Waterloo Courier. First …


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