We can’t help but think we’re in for a world of hurt in the Red River Valley and environs next spring when the snow melts.
With so much rain this summer, the water table is high and runoff will be the order of the day if we get a decent amount of snowfall this winter. And that usually spells massive flooding on the glacial lake bed.
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San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the National Anthem on Saturday, testing whether we mean any of of the platitudes we utter about America. Read more →
It’s hard to throw out a first pitch with the weight of Olympic gold medals around your neck. Fortunately, Katie Ledecky had some guy around — Washington Nationals’ Bryce Harper — who wasn’t doing anything. Read more →
What do coaches say when they go to the mound to talk to a struggling pitcher? Now we know, at least in Little League. Read more →
USA pole vaulter Sam Kendricks wasn’t entirely focused like a laser beam on his attempt on Saturday. If he had been, he wouldn’t have heard the National Anthem being played for someone on the medals stand in another competition. Read more →
Sure, old-timers might look upon the rise of soccer as a threat to tradition, but baseball hasn’t been the National Pastime in a generation. And there are things that soccer can do for a community that softball and baseball can’t. Read more →
If there’s someone who should catch a break in this state, it’s Gabriele Grunewald, a professional runner who once ran the fifth-fastest time in the 1500 meters in University of Minnesota history just a day after she was diagnosed with cancer.
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New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin and the USA’s Abbey D’Agostino collided during their heat in the 5,000 meter running event. Down they both went, their Olympic dreams dashed.
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Everything you want to know about what it’s like to be a father you can find in the expression of Chuck Van Gordon, who was at Detroit’s Comerica Field last night when a video message from his daughter, Melissa, was played on the video board. Read more →
Emmanuel Matadi, a Johnson High grad, is going to run the 200-meter dash at the Olympics in Rio today and his mother is going to see him do it, and that should sustain us through another day in the drumbeat of awful news.
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In Norway, the sport is called dødsing – or ‘death diving’. Read more →
Funny thing about kids. They’re always gaining on you. Read more →
While watching Simone Manuel accept her gold medal at the Olympics in Rio last evening, I was thinking about this story from MPR News’ Laura Yuen about the “swimming gap” between white people and people of color. Read more →
The Pioneer Press’ Frederick Melo today tells the amazing story of Florence Matadi, the mother of Olympic runner Emmanuel Matadi who is competing for Liberia in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
You won’t see her in the audience, nor mentioned by the announcers at the Games.
She’s mostly lived out of her car in St. Paul.
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In a few years from now, we’ll fondly recall the days when people who went to baseball games went there to watch baseball. Read more →
Bob Collins