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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. 21, 2009 2:34 am6083d ago
Clinton Solomon had three touchdown catches Friday night, and seven receptions overall for 146 yards. Alas, the ex-Iowa Hawkeye wide …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 20, 2009 4:22 pm6083d ago
Matt Bowen played seven years in the National Football League after having a distinguished career at safety for the University …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 19, 2009 6:57 pm6084d ago
PORTLAND, Ore. — Here I sit on a bus at Flightcraft Aviation, waiting to be taken to the tarmac where …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 17, 2009 9:48 pm6086d ago
PORTLAND, Ore. — Getting my bearings in downtown Portland, which doesn’t roll up its sidewalk at 5 p.m. Less than …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 16, 2009 4:05 pm6087d ago
Africa has a population of roughly 975,000,000. Iowa has a population of roughly 3,000.000. Yet, according to painstaking research the …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 15, 2009 10:31 pm6088d ago
Bad enough that the six BCS conferences have a stranglehold on college football. They’ve also somehow seen to it that …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 14, 2009 11:48 am6089d ago
INDIANAPOLIS – All five first-team All-Big Ten men’s basketball players this year are sophomores. Only four of the 28 league …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 12, 2009 11:43 am6091d ago
Last November, the University of Minnesota’s Metrodome farewell was a full-fledged disaster. Iowa savaged the Gophers, 55-0. Minnesota was still …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 12, 2009 12:16 am6092d ago
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 10, 2009 9:51 pm6093d ago
Recruiting’s over, spring football hasn’t started … if you’re Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz, why not escape to Palm Beach? …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 9, 2009 10:18 pm6094d ago
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu4fpor5zzc] I don’t remember it being this chaotic at Sunday’s Missouri Valley Conference championship game in St. Louis, and I …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 9, 2009 3:54 pm6094d ago
Darren Rovell of CNBC is a smart guy, one I feel I always learn something from when I hear or …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 7, 2009 5:26 pm6096d ago
From a pride perspective, though, it was huge. It was the kind of win that made every fan in the …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 6, 2009 4:07 pm6097d ago
My Gazette/Gazetteonline.com column for Friday: Maybe the rivalry began in earnest in 1995 when Northwestern center Rob Johnson said “I …
Columns & Sports Commentary Mar. 5, 2009 8:59 am6099d ago
To answer the question in the headline of this post … maybe. How’s that for fine journalism? The job of …


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