Bob Collins
The Defense Department pays NFL teams to honor service members on game day. The Vikings have pulled in more than $600,000. How patriotic is that? Read more →
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Where are all the Minnesota Twins players when they play the National Anthem at Target Field? Read more →
After several seasons of poor smelt runs, the tiny fish are back in Lake Superior, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports today. That’s a big deal because it’s brought smelt anglers back to the Northland.
Both the smelt and those in search of them only come out at night.
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Today’s lesson that real life is not Hollywood comes from Boston, where Boston Marathon runner Barbara Tatge of Tennessee, on a dare from her daughter, stopped to kiss the first man she saw in Wellesley. Read more →
Be careful what you do at a football game; it might be the first line of your obituary.
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Remember when your kids were young and you’d let them win at games?
Eventually they grow up and at some point you realize, they’re doing the same thing for you — letting you win. Read more →
This is the scene in Baltimore at this hour, just prior to the start of today’s baseball game.
The fans are there — some of them, anyway, but they can’t get in. Read more →
More high school dance team coaches have been disciplined for their part in a demonstration against the Faribault girls who won the state high school tournament in February with a routine the coaches said was cribbed from a Colorado school. Read more →
I’ve said it before but it bears repeating today. Nothing makes you feel older than hearing of the infirmities and deaths of sports heroes from a younger time. Read more →
This message from your ‘bucket list’: Time is fleeting. Get moving. Read more →
You know what word every parent wants to hear one time before they die? ‘Thanks.’
Brian Peterson of Nebraska, a Massachusetts native, got his wish on Monday from his three daughters, whom he raised after his wife — their mom, of course — died from cervical cancer. Read more →
One of these days I’m going to spend summer nights in Minnesota communities where town ball is still a thing, I often say to myself at roughly this time every year. Maybe I better hurry up. Read more →
If every major sport were on a sinking ship and I could save just one, I think I’d opt for hockey. Read more →
Raise your hand if you thought it would be soccer that would unite Republicans and DFLers in the state? The proposal for an 18,000 seat soccer stadium in downtown Minneapolis, with most of the bill footed by Minnesota United, has been mostly panned because the ownership group wants some tax breaks in the deal. Soccer, Read more →
Maickel Melamed, 39, finished the Marathon this morning a little before the sun came up. Keep in mind it started at noon yesterday.
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