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Kevin Love is so bad that a city that is pretty comfortable with losing isn’t comfortable with losing with him. Read more →
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The week is either horse racing with a side show of fashion, or a fashion show with a side show of horse racing. Read more →
Back in 2012, things were going pretty well for Kevin Burkart of Prior Lake to hit his goal of jumping out of an airplane 300 times in one day to help raise awareness and money for research of Parkinson’s Disease, an affliction that affects his dad.
Then he went snowmobiling and got into a horrific accident, scuttling the idea Read more →
The Twins don’t appear too interesting in making the same mistake the Minnesota Timberwolves made when they slashed ticket prices to get people to show up at the arena. Read more →
Angie Nichols, the former director of the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Services Office, is suing the Board of Regents, claiming the school retaliated against her through months of discrimination based on her sexual orientation and disability.
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Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse appears to have stepped in it again with a column today in which he lambastes the Minnesota Twins players for celebrating when they win a game. The Star Tribune sports department must be an utterly joyless place because this is the sort of thing that Reusse says is shameful. Parents: Read more →
There’s really no way to avoid a public spectacle when you’re a baseball player and you take one in the babymakers. Read more →
Tomorrow night, people will sacrifice their children to give him polite applause and then, like Ortiz, they’ll move on.
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If you’re a kid and you’re lucky and you like baseball, you grew up in Owatonna, because then you probably learned about the game from Chuck Fuller, known as ‘Mr. Baseball’ around those parts. If you didn’t know him, maybe you knew someone like him in your youth, again, assuming you were lucky. Read more →
Ricky Rubio is threatening to leave the team if the Timberwolves don’t make the playoffs next season, according to ESPN.
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My profound sense of sadness on news of his death mirrors the profound sense of sadness I had about his life: specifically, the treatment he received because opposed the war in Vietnam.
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It’s not that the bike shops are foisting this on parents; they’re trying to meet the demand of parents, the Boston Globe says. Read more →
Given advancing age and my inability to get out of the cubicle much anymore, I often wonder if I’ll ever meet as unique an individual as Daniel Alvarez again, the Florida man who kayaked from the Northwest Angle to the Gulf of Mexico and then, because it seemed like a good idea at the time, kayaked back via a different route. Read more →
A wild ending gives the Twins another win in Seattle. Read more →
Generally speaking, Minnesota architecture can be a boring series of right angles. Folks seem to like it. The style feels like a comfortable pair of slippers.
So you might want to think about the design of the new Minnesota United stadium for awhile and not react right away. Read more →