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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
Iowa Basketball Apr. 10, 2023 5:38 pm939d ago
The Iowa women’s basketball team completed a Weekend Update joke, and LSU’s Angel Reese got her own impersonator on Saturday Night Live.
Iowa Basketball Apr. 7, 2023 11:42 am942d ago
Murray was 3rd-team All-America, averaged over 20 points a game for Hawkeyes.
Iowa Basketball Apr. 4, 2023 12:54 pm945d ago
Iowa’s loss to LSU in the national-title game topped a lot more sporting events than just previous women’s basketball championships.
Iowa Basketball Apr. 4, 2023 10:07 am945d ago
What we know about the 2023-24 Iowa women’s basketball team: It will be really good, and it will be really fun.
Iowa Basketball Apr. 2, 2023 8:17 pm947d ago
Iowa got outplayed by LSU in the national championship game, and that’s that. But it doesn’t even begin to put any shade on such a sunny season.
Iowa Basketball Apr. 1, 2023 4:18 pm948d ago
Caitlin Clark said she hopes Taylor Swift will attend the Iowa women’s basketball team’s title game vs. LSU Sunday afternoon before her concert in Arlington Sunday night.
Iowa Basketball Apr. 1, 2023 3:49 pm948d ago
Lisa Bluder has gone from driving a team van at St. Ambrose to piloting Iowa to Sunday’s national-championship game, with her feet on the ground the whole time.
Iowa Basketball Apr. 1, 2023 2:10 am948d ago
National Player of the Year Caitlin Clark played like that and more as the Hawkeye women get their biggest win ever, over goliath South Carolina in national semifinal.
Iowa Basketball Mar. 31, 2023 5:28 pm949d ago
T-shirt-wearing Iowa fans stuffed a Ritz-Carlton ballroom five hours before their women’s basketball team’s Final Four game Friday.
Iowa Basketball Mar. 30, 2023 4:59 pm950d ago
Iowa coaches Lisa Bluder and Jan Jensen never stopped pounding away after arriving 23 years ago, and here they are in the national semifinals.
Iowa Basketball Mar. 30, 2023 11:13 am950d ago
Cedar Rapids’ Keegan Murray has an NBA rookie record 188 3-pointers for a Sacramento Kings team headed for the playoffs for the first time since 2006.
Iowa Basketball Mar. 28, 2023 12:37 pm952d ago
Iowa’s national semifinal Friday against No. 1 South Carolina should produce a whopper of a rating for ESPN.
Iowa Basketball Mar. 27, 2023 9:59 am953d ago
Up next for Iowa? The unbeaten, shot-blocking, rebounding steamrollers from South Carolina are likely to face the Hawkeyes Friday in the Final Four.
Iowa Basketball Mar. 25, 2023 1:35 pm955d ago
The 1993 Hawkeyes are among the biggest fans of the 2023 Iowa women’s basketball team that is a victory Sunday night from reaching the Final Four.
Iowa Basketball Mar. 24, 2023 10:27 am956d ago
Iowa is two wins in Seattle from making a heck of a commotion back in its own state.

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