Bob Collins
In the waning days of Black History Month, Debi Thomas should get a little attention for proving, as she did at the 1988 Olympics, that an African American can succeed at figure skating while acing college exams. Read more →
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After shaving six minutes off the time of a game last year, Major League Baseball is trying more ideas to speed up the game. Read more →
There aren’t a lot of radio broadcasters left who can be called legends in their community, but Scott Miller certainly qualified as one.
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Who wouldn’t root for a player who’s under four feet tall? Read more →
Usually it takes the writers until at least May to drop the anonymous innuendo of problems between Mauer and the Twins, but this year it begins on the second day of spring training.
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Pitchers and catchers reported for spring training yesterday, in preparation for the return of the last remaining sport in which fans don’t have to get hammered to enjoy it.
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There’s trouble in Fargo. I said trouble. Trouble with a capital ‘T’. And that rhymes with ‘P’ and that stands for ‘pool’. Read more →
Utility player Mike Aviles said his daughter, Adriana, underwent a bone marrow transplant in December and is now cancer free. Read more →
On a horse. Without the sunset. Read more →
It was a class act that gripped the gym in Annandale, Minn., on Monday night.
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Not being smart enough to play chess, I have no clue what’s going on here other than this video of a chess grand master hustled a hustler in one of New York’s ubiquitous street chess games is the greatest thing on the Internet today. Read more →
A high school coach’s generosity in a cross-country ski race cost his team a chance to compete for the state championship. Read more →
Here’s another reason why soccer is better than most mainstream sports: Its fans don’t take ticket-price increases lying down.
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Luke McAvoy, an offensive lineman for the University of Minnesota Gophers football team from 2011-2014, was in a difficult spot during the same-sex marriage debate in Minnesota at the time.
While his teammates all had opinions of the issue, McAvoy kept quiet. He hadn’t yet told the team that he’s gay. Read more →
When Vince Lombardi said, ‘show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser,’ it ended up in management text books. Lombardi had a luxury that Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton didn’t have when he sulked after losing the Super Bowl the other night, and stormed out of his postgame news conference. Read more →