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When Target Field was built, the Minnesota Twins placed a statue of Calvin Griffith on the plaza. It still doesn’t sit well with some people, the latest of whom is Jack Moore, who writes on Vice Sports that Jackie Robinson day yesterday would have been a good day to tear it down.
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We like to bike slowly and found fairly quickly that Minneapolis bike paths aren’t for the likes of us. We were scolded for being slow.
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For a region that calls itself the “state of hockey,” there’s a remarkable amount of restraint greeting the area’s first legitimate shot at a Stanley Cup. Read more →
Thanks to the rowing team of Washington University in St. Louis, we have quite possibly the most bizarre video yet of Asian carp. Read more →
If you go to a Twins game, you’ll have to pass through metal detectors. Major League Baseball this year has expanded its security procedures that it tried out late last season.
Is there a big problem at ballgames? No, security expert Bruce Schneier argues in the Washington Post today, it’s just part of the theater to make you feel safer from a threat that isn’t that big to begin with. Read more →
Theoretically, the Twins stadium tax would expire as soon as the stadium was paid for. But the theory ignores the physics of politics: Taxes don’t expire, even though the tax is taking in more money than expected and the stadium will be paid off early. Read more →
You may soon have another reason to try to live to age 84. You’ll get to shoot a doe. Read more →
Nope, still not tired of seeing returning soldiers surprising their families in odd settings. Read more →
The theory comes from Como Park High School hockey coach Mike Searles, who says it’s been a struggle finding ice time for his kids, especially since the rink at the state fairgrounds closed. Read more →
Dick and Rick Hoyt didn’t want a big name to help continue their tradition of running the Boston Marathon every year. They wanted a big heart.
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She was given only until December to live. But she wanted to play a game for her college basketball team. She did, and then she spent her remaining days raising money for cancer research. Read more →
Bert Blyleven, the Twins broadcaster, might have learned a valuable lesson today. When your team stinks and it has turned in four straight 90-loss seasons, it’s probably not smart to criticize the city that’s won five straight division titles and, oh by the way, has shut out your squad in the first two games of the season.
It started with this tweet during the rain delay of today’s no-contest between the Twins and Tigers.
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If ever there was a reason the NCAA should scrap its rules on student-athlete eligibility, Baylor football player Silas Nacita is it. Read more →
The baseball box score, a longtime staple of the newspaper sports section, may be disappearing.
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