Bob CollinsIt says something — although we’re not sure exactly what — that when Serena Williams became the first woman to win Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year since 1983, people objected because a horse didn’t win.
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As the great St. Paul blogger Teresa Boardman likes to say, “today is Friday, and Friday is for fun.” In that spirit, we give you this paragraph from this morning’s Star Tribune and challenge you to find either the meaning or the math therein. Good luck. If you’d like some music while you work it Read more →
Sen. John McCain and Sen. Al Franken mix it up over their NFL loyalties. Read more →
Earthcam has been keeping an eye on the construction of the new Minnesota Vikings stadium.
Today, the company released the newest time-lapse video of it. Read more →
The Austin High School boys basketball team was down a bucket last night to Northfield High with 1.6 seconds left to go. Then Oman Oman got the ball.
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After losing a game Saturday night, Minnesota Timberwolves coach Sam Mitchell tried to embarrass a reporter for asking a question everyone who paid for a ticket was asking. Read more →
Minnesota Vikings fans were feeling their newfound oats on Twitter last night as the Green Bay Packers closed in on another loss, this time against the perennially pathetic Detroit Lions.
And who could blame them? After years of dysfunction, the Vikings are relevant in the NFC North again and there’s plenty of payback due for the fans of the team next door. Read more →
Not since ‘the lady in pink’ has the state of hockey been so smitten with an attendee at a Minnesota Wild game. Read more →
The University of Minnesota football program can never seem to get out of its own way.
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The forthcoming issue of ESPN the Magazine has a fascinating inside look at Minnesota Timberwolves legend Kevin Garnett and the things that make him tick. And, for once, we understand why the NBA fossil is so slow to retire. Read more →
Rod Carew is 70, a fact that’s a cold bucket of water in the face for baseball fans who idolized the Minnesota Twins and California Angels hitter, one of the best pure hitters in the history of baseball.
So perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that his health is in peril, and yet it does. Read more →
What is happening to the state of hockey when a high school doesn’t have enough players to put a team on the ice?
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For people who don’t have cable TV, or who want to watch baseball games online even if they do, few rules were as frustrating as Major League Baseball’s blackout of local teams.
Fans could drop $120 for MLB’s streaming package, but if you tried to watch the Twins anywhere near the Twin Cities, the games were black out. It was a nod to Fox, which owns the local TV rights to half of MLB’s teams. It was a great deal if you followed out-of-market teams, but not so much if you were like most fans. Read more →
A Packers fan adopted a highway in Northfield.
Sure it’s clean and spiffy until our eyes are blinded by sign trash. Read more →