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A high school football player stops what he’s doing at a game to meet WWII vets. Read more →
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The young man — Oscar Wood, 9 — went to yesterday’s deciding American League Divisional Series dressed as his favorite player, Jose Batista. Read more →
The Timberwolves and Lynx announced today that the Target Center renovation will be delayed again. Times are too good in the construction business so costs have been going up. Read more →
The Twitter accounts of Deadspin SB Nation were suspended yesterday after the NFL and other sports leagues complained that GIFs — 6 second animated videos — were being posted.
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The secrecy with which Minnesota United has wandered the landscape looking for a soccer friend has been troubling right from the start. Now, the people in charge of the taxpayer-portion of a deal are climbing into bed and pulling the covers, MPR’s Curtis Gilbert reports today. Read more →
Nothing makes you feel older than when the baseball players of your childhood die. Read more →
The competition isn’t that close. Read more →
You go to a baseball game to see your beloved team in the postseason, and the next thing you know you’re the most hated man in a city and you go into hiding for the next 12 years.
That’s Steve Bartman’s life in one sentence because of what happened in 2003. Read more →
Without question, the highlight of the many years I watched my kids play baseball occurred very early in their youth athletic careers, when a ball hit to shortstop went for an easy single because the shortstop was busy making a sand castle.
Life should always be that sweet. Read more →
One of the most interesting thing about marathons is nobody really cares who wins the things except for the most hard-core running fans.
Instead, it’s this scene (and dozens like it) that captures the essence of Sunday’s Twin Cities Marathon.
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Fifty years ago today, Sandy Koufax — perhaps the greatest pitcher of his generation — sat in the St. Paul Hotel while his team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, played game one of the World Series against the Minnesota Twins in Bloomington.
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Last Thursday, New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia pitched five innings to win the game that clinched a wild card spot for the Yankees. Read more →
A Washington Post story reports 70 percent of kids stop playing team sports by the time they turn 13. They’re not good enough to play on the elite teams that have taken over the focus of parents and adults. Read more →
The New York Times says the barrage of ads for fantasy sports sites offering multi-million dollar riches isn’t what Congress had in mind when it exempted fantasy sports from a law making online gambling illegal. Read more →
Oh, your state doesn’t have a Supreme Court justice (now retired) who blows his tuba to support marathoners?
Mine does. Read more →