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Sports
If you put your name on the list for Green Bay Packers season tickets 10 years ago, there’s some good news today, according to ESPN: There are only 60,000 people ahead of you now. Read more →
Life can be awfully good when you’re a cute kid. Read more →
How do you sneak in a big ‘She Said Yes’ sign with your girlfriend without her seeing it because you haven’t proposed to her yet? Read more →
One of the first ‘retro’ baseball parks that ushered in the stadium building boom in the ’90s is about to be demolished because it’s not enough anymore that a baseball stadium is a great place to watch a baseball game.
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A report on youth and sports in the last week revealed that among the decline in sports participation by kids, track and field is among sports with the least amount of interest. That’s too bad, really, because track and field kids have a way of being some of the classiest and truest sportspeople in all of athletics. Read more →
On Wednesday evening at Chanhassen High School, the Chaska Hawks baseball team defeated the Chanhassen Storm 1-0.
Any game that ends 1-0 is quite a game but it was quite a tribute from the kids on both teams that people will long remember, because they long remembered Ethan Herman, who would have been a senior this year had he not taken his own life in 2010. Do the math on that. He was just 12 years old. Read more →
There are probably a lot of high school tennis teams who would love to be 203-1 in tournaments, but the Grand Forks’ Red River High School isn’t one of them. Read more →
Football has an amazing ability to stay in the news virtually every day during the off-season. Today did not break the string. Apparently, ESPN — and you’ll want to sit down for this — tweeted something stupid. Read more →
The Mayo Clinic Boost Lynx became the first major sports team in our area to adopt the idea, which they did in 2014, and it worked out fine. They won a championship.
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Minnesota native and future football Hall of Famer Larry Fitzgerald has fulfilled his mother’s dying wish. Read more →
Why do baseball teams have people sitting on chairs in foul territory? This is why. Read more →
The stench from the U of M athletic department has only gotten stronger since the academic scandal under Clem Haskins. So we’ve gotten better at holding our nose.
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Some kids who played baseball could have learned a valuable lesson this season: Standing up for values requires personal sacrifice.
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Baylee Bjorge, a senior at Grand Forks Central High School, started a Twitter account recently and asked University of North Dakota freshman hockey star Brock Boeser to the prom.
But her mother shut the account down without knowing about the invitation.
That didn’t stop Boeser. Read more →