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There are cries of anguish in Boston this afternoon. David Ortiz has announced his retirement.
He’ll give up the game at the end of next season, FoxSports’ Ken Rosenthal reports. That gives him a chance for a farewell tour. Read more →
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There are few sports stories around these parts better than Minneapolis North’s football team’s march to the state championship game, which the squad lost over the weekend.
The school was on the verge of being closed a few years ago, but the community saved it and the football team turned its fortunes around.
Then a player wiped all of that away with one stupid moment. Read more →
It must’ve been a big moment in the life of a football fan in Green Bay on Sunday during a moment of silence for the people killed in the attacks in Paris.
He had the stadium to himself, the rest of the fans smart enough to respect the silence.
‘Muslims suck!’ he shouted.
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The chess pieces are moving over at Target Field and some of them are beginning to point to the beginning of the post-Mauer era. Read more →
The Minnesota Vikings coaching staff is shocked by the mentality that delivered what they insist was a cheap shot against quarterback Teddy Bridgewater in yesterday’s game against the St. Louis Rams. Read more →
Shanley High School, a Catholic school in Fargo, has advanced to the North Dakota high school playoffs, and that’s a problem for some people because the team wants to hold a prayer. Read more →
The Wild ranked fourth among all major sports teams in amount of money accepted for patriotic displays, according to a congressional report released Wednesday. Read more →
Have you ever noticed when the Star Tribune takes a photograph of its all-metro high school sports teams, it poses boys differently than the girls? Read more →
Can you really call yourself a hunter if you have to sprawl in your deer-stand McMansion waiting for a buck to stroll by? Read more →
Here’s the video shown before tonight’s Minnesota Timberwolves game honoring long-time coach Flip Saunders, who died last week of complications from cancer treatment.
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On Saturday, Lauren Turner and Indianapolis’ Brebeuf Prep girls soccer team played for a state title.
And Lauren Turner’s mom got to watch her daughter, the goalie.
Stephanie Turner was given just days to live two weeks ago. Read more →
Is there any other sport besides running marathons where winning isn’t a goal?
We have a special place in our NewsCut heart for people who run 26 miles with nothing but the intention to have a blast along the way. Read more →
It’s a silly notion, however, that a pilot would be able to read a registration number on a drone; I was too busy to try to read the “N-number” on the little Cessna filling my windshield, and those letters are as high as a drone is wide.
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Thanks to John Millea at the Minnesota State High School League, we know a little more about the person responsible for stenciling a large #11 on the field at Cleveland High School last Saturday for its winner-goes-to-state game against Renville West. The number honored Brandon Limones, a Renville West player who died in March. Millea Read more →
Jerry Kill is fair game for the typical judgments of media, which needs to keep a hot story going somehow. But who are we to declare how other people live? Read more →