Bob Collins
This video, from an Arizona Diamondbacks broadcast earlier this week, was like blood in the water for the professionally outraged and judgmental — in order words: Twitter and Facebook.
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The athletic department coaches who still collect a paycheck at the University of Minnesota Duluth have broken a long silence after nearly a year of controversy surrounding athletic director Josh Berlo, who removed several high-profile female coaches from the ranks.
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Not having much interest in marathons, we’re content to stand on the sidelines and watch the face-off between its participants and Black Lives Matter, which says it may disrupt the Twin Cities Marathon this weekend. Read more →
Given the way local media buried the Minnesota Lynx’ victory over the Phoenix Mercury yesterday, there’s a good chance you didn’t see the final play which propelled the Lynx to the WNBA finals.
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If the Minnesota Vikings won’t take him back, perhaps Ragnar can be the official mascot for everyone who overplayed their hand.
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A high school soccer game between West Fargo and Fargo Shanley-Oak Grove was postponed last night for the observance of Eid al-Adha .
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David Ortiz, the former Minnesota Twin, provided the opportunity for Twins fans to wonder what might have been last week when he hit his 500th homerun, pretty much guaranteeing him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
That’s 442 homeruns more than he hit for the team that gave up on him when it released him in December 2002. Read more →
It was ‘tear your heart out night’ at Target Field last night, and that was before the Twins and Indians played.
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The last remaining player on some of the greatest New York Yankees teams of all time — no other player may ever win 10 World Series again — has died at age 90. Read more →
You probably don’t need any more shame for your youthful sedentary lifestyle, but here’s some anyway in the form of Don Pellman, a Wisconsin man, who tried to set a new record in the pole vault in San Diego yesterday. Read more →
Ragnar has been — or was — the motorcycle-riding cheerleader for the team since 1994. Is he done? The Vikings haven’t commented. Read more →
This is the moment that has the golf world in an uproar.
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All Colin McLain of Brainerd wanted last night is to spend a nice night at the ballpark with his daughter.
But it was a rainy day and fans outstate no longer have the luxury of a domed field, you may have heard.
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The Minnesota Vikings gave workers at the under-construction U.S. Bank Stadium knit hats to commemorate the topping-off of the stadium.
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Milo Hamilton is dead.
The Iowa native called baseball games on radio — the only real way to follow a baseball game — for 60 years, most recently as the Houston Astros announcer. Before that he was the play-by-play man for the Cubs, Pirates, and several other teams, including the Atlanta Braves, which tied him forever to this moment.
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