Bob CollinsTime seems endless when you consider how long the playoffs have run. Why, I vaguely recall the Minnesota Wild even being in the postseason. Read more →
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Other than Bobby Hull, no player was more identified with the Chicago Blackhawks back in the day than Stan Mikita. Those were the good days. Read more →
We’ve seen tackier uses of American flag references — just see Nikki Tundel’s fine photo series on the subject today (an annual tradition in this space)– than the plan by Major League Baseball to dress up its players in stars and stripes on Flag Day Sunday.
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Even if the new St. Paul Saints stadium didn’t turn out to be the jewel that it has, it would’ve been addition by subtraction just with the removal of the old Gillette plant, an industrial eyesore. Read more →
Wisconsin has always been a little bit ahead of its neighbor to the west when it comes to discouraging Native American mascots by sports teams. Read more →
We like the pizzazz Torii Hunter brings to the Twins as much as the next blogger, but we still have to admit: This pitch is too close to take with two strikes and even if it’s outside, it’s not the type of call to do a Target Field striptease over. But that wasn’t really the Read more →
Generations have grown up without looking up and dreaming. Read more →
Snow Leopards, Prairie Hawks, Wooly Mammoths, Green Pride, didn’t make the latest cut, the Grand Forks Herald reports today. Read more →
Thanks to Apple, a Major League Baseball player is going to get the ball he hit for his 100th Major League homerun. Read more →
‘The Baseball Rule is ripe for change,’ Martin Healy, head of the Massachusetts Bar Association, said. ‘The immunity the baseball rule has provided to baseball has to be tossed out.’
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Century Senior High School had hoped to ride to a title on the shirt-tails of the first girl ever to play in the boy’s tournament, but Jessie Aney ran into a problem in her match yesterday on the U of M campus. Read more →
With the Minnesota Twins in Boston to face the Red Sox yesterday, it was the perfect time for Eden Stone of West Roxbury, Mass., to meet Paula Kelly of St. Paul.
Next Tuesday they’ll meet each other again — inside Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital when Eden will get one of Paula’s kidneys. Read more →
Is famed long-distance runner and coach Alberto Salazar the sports world’s next icon to fall?
Former team members of Salazar, including a Duluth native, are alleging today that he was a cheat. Read more →
A story from the Minnesota high school boy’s tennis tournament provides today’s jumping off point for the ongoing debates in youth sports — what’s wrong with winning?
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We’re pretty much at a complete loss to understand a ranking of baseball cities today that brings Minneapolis in at #10.
It’s not that we’re not convinced Minneapolis is the 10th-best city in America in which to be a baseball fan — although we’re not. It’s just that there are some entries in the survey that make us question its methodology Read more →