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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. 4, 2010 9:22 pm5761d ago
Oh, how I love Super Bowl prop bets. They’re mostly coin-flips. They’re entirely silly. So let’s have a contest. The …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 4, 2010 12:44 pm5762d ago
Danny Hope, Purdue: “Very excited about today. It’s like Christmas. We’ve waiting a long time to get these guys signed …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 3, 2010 9:44 pm5762d ago
(At the end of this post, I’ve got video of UNI Coach Ben Jacobson from his postgame press conference. I …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 2, 2010 2:09 pm5764d ago
Be succinct. Be windy. Use Haiku. Write a screenplay. Many an Illinois-Iowa basketball game has been eagerly anticipated. Wednesday’s? You …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 2, 2010 1:00 pm5764d ago
Even considering expanding the NCAA men’s basketball tourney from 65 to 96 teams is a bad idea. The tournament struck …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 1, 2010 11:35 pm5764d ago
This is pure theft on my part, but I enjoyed reading Ed Podolak’s blog entries during the 2009 college football …
Columns & Sports Commentary Feb. 1, 2010 3:12 pm5765d ago
Jim Caldwell, the coach of the Indianapolis Colts, played in the BIGG years when he was an Iowa Hawkeye. Before …
Columns & Sports Commentary Nov. 29, 2021 12:46 pm1446d ago
Not really. I’ll have a column for you Monday night on Jim Caldwell, who was on a couple of rotten …
Sports Jan. 30, 2010 10:04 am5767d ago
TEMPE, Ariz. – This is how an athlete should go out. No dithering, no stewing, no flip-flopping. No worries about …
Sports Jan. 29, 2010 11:01 pm5767d ago
His retirement news conference Friday focused on 12 years and 12 years only – his time as an NFL quarterback. …
Columns & Sports Commentary Nov. 29, 2021 12:52 pm1446d ago
TEMPE, Ariz. – This is how an athlete should go out. No dithering, no stewing, no flip-flopping. No worries about …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jan. 29, 2010 4:48 pm5767d ago
TEMPE, Ariz. – His retirement press conference here Friday focused on 12 years and 12 years only – his time …
Columns & Sports Commentary Jan. 29, 2010 3:34 pm5768d ago
TEMPE, Ariz. — After his Friday retirement press conference ended here, I asked former — yes, former — Arizona Cardinals …
Columns & Sports Commentary Nov. 29, 2021 12:42 pm1446d ago
This was the interview room 90 minutes before Kurt Warner’s presumed retirement press conference Friday y at the Arizona Cardinals’ training …
Columns & Sports Commentary Nov. 29, 2021 12:35 pm1446d ago
TEMPE, Ariz. — You couldn’t make this up. The Arizona Cardinals’ training facility is just a half-block off of Warner …


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