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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 Jun. 21, 2022 5:56 pm1177d ago
Iowa men’s basketball will again roll with Filip Rebraca in the post, while hoping for more help from Riley Mulvey and Josh Ogundele.
High School Basketball Jun. 21, 2022 11:23 am1177d ago
Iowa’s Keegan Murray started his NBA lottery pick story at Prairie High in Cedar Rapids.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 20, 2022 4:11 pm1178d ago
If Keegan Murray goes in the top five picks of Thursday’s NBA Draft, he will be highest-drafted Hawkeye ever. Ricky Davis in 1998 was Iowa’s last first-round pick.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 18, 2022 11:27 am1180d ago
The last player from Cedar Rapids to be taken in an NBA draft will be smiling as the next one gets announced Thursday night. Russ Millard, a second-round NBA draft pick in 1996, was a big part of some big Iowa wins.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 16, 2022 3:56 pm1182d ago
Iowa’s Big Ten opponents for the 2022-23 men’s basketball season were announced Thursday.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 15, 2022 9:36 pm1182d ago
Former Iowa men’s basketball player Austin Ash is getting put on a full-ride scholarship by The Citadel for his final season of eligibility.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 15, 2022 7:20 pm1183d ago
Former Iowa standout Matt Gatens has come home, to help Fran McCaffery coach Hawkeyes men’s basketball.
Sports Jun. 14, 2022 3:11 pm1184d ago
Rick Reilly spares no empathy for Phil Mickelson and those who joined the Saudi-sponsored LIV Golf Invitational Series. Reilly was in Cedar Rapids Monday for a speaking engagement promoting his latest book about golf’s other side, its better side.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 14, 2022 11:20 am1184d ago
Keegan Murray's parents made Cedar Rapids their home, and soon their city will claim an NBA first-round draftee.
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports Jun. 9, 2022 2:13 pm1189d ago
Just because the SEC is dominant in football doesn’t mean it holds a candle to the Big Ten in things that really matter, like turkeys, and millionaires per capita.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 9, 2022 11:47 am1189d ago
Former Iowa men’s basketball player Matt Gatens is returning to the Hawkeyes as an assistant coach after a coaching stint at Drake.
Iowa Football Jun. 6, 2022 5:26 pm1192d ago
Former Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard was carted off the field Monday and taken to the locker room at the Jacksonville Jaguars’ practice Monday.
Iowa Football Jun. 6, 2022 10:33 am1192d ago
Iowa football special teams coordinator LeVar Woods once wasn’t keen about special teams or coaching, but now is passionate about both.
Iowa Basketball Jun. 3, 2022 7:05 pm1195d ago
The Iowa men’s basketball team will play Duke in the Jimmy V Classic at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Dec. 6.
Iowa Football Jun. 3, 2022 10:46 am1195d ago
Iowa’s kickoff-return and punt-return positions have opened with the transfer of Charlie Jones. LeVar Woods talked about who might replace the 2021 Big Ten Return Specialist of the Year.