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As Twins burn, ownership fiddles

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 6, 2016, 7:00 AM May 6, 2016
38

None of the young players are getting any better, none of the trades from the front office worked, the baseball season could, for all practical purposes, be over by Sunday afternoon in Minnesota.

But at least the Pohlad family is happy.
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Sports

Minnesotan is first full-time female thoroughbred track announcer

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 2, 2016, 1:18 PM May 2, 2016
2

Angela Hermann started working as an usher at Canterbury Park when she was 17 and most recently has been a substitute announcer and analyst. Read more →

Sports

100-year-old woman sets record in 100-meter race

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 2, 2016, 12:27 PM May 2, 2016
2

We don’t know for sure if Ida Keeling’s goal in life is to make us feel like slugs but if it is, it’s working splendidly.

Ida is 100 years old and set a record at the Penn Relays over the weekend for the 100 meter race in the 100-and-up category, finishing the race in a minute and 17 seconds, just a 1 minute and 10 seconds off Usain Bolt’s 100-meter world record.
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Sports

Spoiler: Vikings never wore horned helmets

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 29, 2016, 1:40 PM Apr 29, 2016
17

This might be the biggest news since it was revealed Lassie was a boy. Read more →

Politics · Sports

Should purple be the official state color?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 25, 2016, 8:18 AM Apr 25, 2016
25

A state lawmaker wants Minnesota to have a state color to honor Prince and a bill so stating will probably pass, given that lawmakers love to pass official symbol legislation.
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Sports

At NFL draft, the North Dakota way gets the spotlight

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 20, 2016, 9:17 AM Apr 20, 2016
4

It should be a thrilling moment next week when a kid from North Dakota who didn’t play football at one of the big-shot,rule-breaking, big money college programs becomes the first pick in the NFL draft.
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Sports

Minor league cities choking on stadium boondoggles

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2016, 9:00 AM Apr 19, 2016
21

Of the many fine baseball moves that Twins general manager Terry Ryan has made over the years, none may exceed washing the team’s hands of its affiliation with the New Britain Rock Cats minor league team at the end of the 2014 season. Read more →

Education · Sports

Parents drive another coach out

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2016, 6:40 AM Apr 19, 2016
14

Worthington High School football coach Brad Grimmius is the latest youth sports coach who’s had it with parents. Read more →

Sports

1,000 Words: The Marathon and the Wellesley kids

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2016, 1:55 PM Apr 18, 2016
1

Every year on Patriots Day, they run the Boston Marathon. And every year at this time, the individual winners are almost a footnote to the traditions of running.

This year was no exception, particular the long tradition of stopping to ‘visit’ with the young women of Wellesley College.
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Economy · Sports

Target Field busing in out-of-towners for concessions jobs

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2016, 6:59 AM Apr 18, 2016
27

The Twins and the company that runs the concessions at Target Field have bused in workers from Chicago and Milwaukee to fill the jobs at the concession stands. Read more →

Sports

At a state park, it’s duffers vs. the DNR

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 15, 2016, 9:36 AM Apr 15, 2016
25

Beware the golfer scorned, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources found out last night at a hearing on the DNR’s decision to close its only golf course. Read more →

Sports

How do you get to run in the Boston Marathon? Cheat

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2016, 8:48 AM Apr 14, 2016
3

Runners World reports today that it’s uncovered cheating at qualifying marathons, thanks in part to a Facebook post a man in Pennsylvania made last year, lamenting that his kid’s absence from school to watch him in the marathon wouldn’t be excused. Read more →

Sports

Don’t stop hating Kobe Bryant

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 13, 2016, 12:40 PM Apr 13, 2016
2

It is the end of the NBA season and the end of the line for “Black Mamba,” Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, the recipient of a generation’s worth of hate, not always because of basketball. Read more →

Crime and Justice · People doing good · Sports

Grand Forks hockey fans try to ‘unflip’ Naomi’s car

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 13, 2016, 6:51 AM Apr 13, 2016
2

It is increasingly a part of America’s culture that when your sports team wins a championship, you go flip cars over; burning them is optional, apparently.
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Sports

A Twin Cities Super Bowl windfall? Don’t spend it yet

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 12, 2016, 3:29 PM Apr 12, 2016
24

Rockport Analytics estimated $338 million in new spending would be generated by the 2018 Super Bowl in Minneapolis. Skeptics, though, say Super Bowls typically don’t deliver on the upbeat forecasts.
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