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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 Football Jul. 17, 2025 4:43 pm107d ago
Not a lot of tickets are left for any of the Hawkeyes’ seven 2025 home games.
Sports Jul. 16, 2025 10:49 am108d ago
Ironside doesn’t just run a business, or do radio color commentary for Hawkeye wrestling, or farm, or build and drive race cars. He does all those things.
Iowa Football Jul. 13, 2025 10:42 am111d ago
Dunker was a second-team All-Big Ten honoree last year by the league’s coaches, but says he’d like to have all the 2024 games back.
Iowa Basketball Jul. 11, 2025 12:45 pm113d ago
Big East’s Musketeers went 22-12 last season, won a game in NCAA tournament
Sports Jul. 9, 2025 6:00 am116d ago
If Erie, Pa., can cash in on switching from the SeaWolves to the Moon Mammoths, why can’t Cedar Rapids create a new cash cow (or goat, or panda) of its own?
Sports Jul. 7, 2025 7:56 am117d ago
Author Christine Brennan looks at why Clark should have embraced warmly by the entirety of the WNBA and USA Basketball coming out of Iowa last year, but wasn’t.
Iowa Basketball Jul. 5, 2025 2:41 pm119d ago
Trey Thompson was wooed by many a premier program, but is joining the Hawkeyes
Sports Jul. 4, 2025 9:50 pm120d 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 pm123d 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 pm123d 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 am123d ago
Garza had spent last three seasons with Minnesota after spending a year with the Detroit Pistons.
Iowa Football Jun. 29, 2025 6:00 am126d 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 pm127d ago
Sandfort likely will play on Thunder’s NBA Summer League team in Las Vegas next month.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 25, 2025 10:42 pm129d 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 am129d 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.

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