She was Beth Delano, 90 a Northwood, N.D., woman who has been going to UND men’s hockey games since 1947, the Grand Forks Herald says.
Her hockey fame, however, was more recent. The big scoreboard video caught her drinking a beer during a break in the action, to the roaring approval of the crowd.
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Golf is struggling and an incident over the weekend explains why. Golf, and its fans, are insufferable. Read more →
Hockey is pretty big in Grand Forks. But not for women. Not anymore, apparently. Read more →
My non-Minnesota Facebook friends have been posting this video in the last 24 hours which makes this state look like the coolest place in the country.
They’re not wrong. Read more →
The White House reportedly cites a scheduling conflict, but there are other possible reasons. First, presidents rarely look good throwing baseballs and, second, as President Obama found out in 2010, it’s a good way to be reminded how much the fans hate you. Read more →
What did we learn from a decades-long shakedown of taxpayers for new football stadiums? That the NFL doesn’t bluff. Read more →
The Canadian Press reports the organization that governs amateur hockey in Canada is mandating that little kids use smaller rinks.
The organization says it will lead to more skilled players if five- and six-year-olds learn the game on half-rink ice sheets. Read more →
We’ll take a little humanity wherever we can find it these days.
Here’s a little humanity.
In Philadelphia yesterday, a woman neared collapse at the end of a half-marathon she was running. Read more →
It’s hard to imagine that any game’s finish in the Minnesota State High School League’s boy’s basketball tournament could be any more dramatic than this week’s Champlin-Chaska contest.
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The only way today’s state basketball tournament quarterfinal between Chaska and Champlin could have been any better is if Chaska had won. Read more →
Twenty-five years ago today, I showed up at Minnesota Public Radio for my first job interview. I knew nothing, really, about Minnesota other than Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, Walter Mondale, Garrison Keillor, and a meatpacker strike that killed a classmate who was covering it for ABC News. I wasn’t sure if the fact that I Read more →
The obvious question: Who owns the current record for the largest game of Twister? It depends on how you calculate it. Read more →
Puckett owned this town once, but now he’s barely even a memory.
He would have turned 57 today. Read more →
Bekah and Derrick Quirin intend to walk the entire 2,200-mile trail starting next week with their 1-year-old baby. They figure it might even be easier than staying home. Read more →
Like most other students at Moose Lake, a school with only 184 students, Daniel Lilya plays a variety of sports. Unlike those other students, however, Lilya was born with a broken back, is a paraplegic, and has been confined to a wheelchair his entire life. Read more →
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