Bob CollinsIn Wisconsin, like Minnesota, it’s legal to ride a bicycle while drunk. Should it be?
The Capital Times in Madison asks today whether that’s such a great idea and, somewhat surprisingly, finds plenty of people who think it is. Read more →
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When a woman was badly injured by a foul ball in Boston earlier this season, you had to suspect that there’d be a cry for more protection for spectators at baseball games. Read more →
Boy Scouts aren’t much into camping in Wisconsin anymore and parents apparently aren’t all that keen about letting them go. Read more →
Economists haven’t been able to convince cities that there’s no monetary gain in dishing out millions of dollars to wealthy sports teams owners for sports stadiums.
Maybe it’s time for a comedian to take a crack at it. Read more →
Robin Ficker specializes in making life miserable for other humans. Read more →
That golf is on the decline isn’t much of a story anymore; it’s been happening for years. But as more communities close down their public golf courses, a philosophical question begins to surface: Does everything have to make money? Or even break even? Read more →
I was out for an evening bike ride a few weeks ago when I stopped to watch a game at a Woodbury park and noticed something odd — there weren’t very many parents there. The parents who were there didn’t appear to be particularly emotionally invested. It seemed like fun.
And that, author and father Daniel Pink insisted last evening on PBS NewsHour, is how youth sports should be played — without parents in attendance. Read more →
A Sports Illustrated reporter has apologized for his assault on women’s sports.
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Miguel Cabrera and a kid at the game in Cleveland last night teamed up to show us why baseball remains the national pastime.
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The Enge family of Thief River Falls was planning to spend Saturday’s Twins-Cubs game at Target Field, celebrating the survival of Allie Enge, who survived brain surgery three years ago, almost to the day.
Then someone stole their tickets. Read more →
An NFL official has a surprising recommendation to cut down the number of head and brain injuries in football: Get rid of the equipment that protects players. Read more →
There was, you may recall, a fair amount of kvetching about the pitchers in the bullpen getting free things they could’ve purchased with the change from their meal money.
Yesterday, the players donated 12 iPads to the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland. Read more →
Paul TostoSo, with no data whatsoever, we rank the remaining UND nicknames and their worth in Wins Above Replacement.
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The New York Times reports the St. Louis Cardinals have hacked into a player-personnel database to get secrets from the Houston Astros, one of the better teams in the American League this year. Read more →
Unless something changes in the next few weeks, baseball will have an embarrassment on its hands.
If the voting ended today, eight Kansas City Royals will be in the starting lineup. Even Omar Infante, possibly the worst-hitting secondbaseman in all of baseball will start. Read more →