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Lauren Hill, the basketball player who won hearts in the face of a pending death because of cancer, has entered hospice care, ESPN reports. Read more →
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Last July, Major League Baseball used its biggest in-season stage — the All-Star Game in Minneapolis — to try to convince people that its days of creating a hostile environment for the gay athlete — or gays at all — are over. Read more →
The Twins made it official this morning when they announced that former star Torii Hunter has been signed for a one-year contract.
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It’s unlikely that Minnesotans who are hyperventilating over a proposed policy on transgender athletes in Minnesota schools will be swayed by facts, but the first woman to play on a boy’s sports team in the state is taking a shot at it anyway. Read more →
Another first for gay men in sports today when Dale Scott became the first active baseball umpire to come out as gay. Read more →
The conservative group that’s opposed to the Minnesota State High School League’s proposed policy for transgender athletes has pulled another full-page ad out of the ‘say what?’ file.
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If you had to choose which team is more valuable, which would you pick? The Minnesota Wild or the Minnesota Timberwolves? Forbes says T-Wolves. Read more →
Meet Adrian Peterson, NFL running back, child beater, victim. Read more →
Just in time for the University of Wisconsin Badgers to hand over ‘Paul Bunyan’s Axe’ to the University of Minnesota, UW football coach Gary Andersen has stopped the ceremonial parading of the axe by the team that wins the game. Read more →
When the soon-to-be-former Minnesota Vikings running back was suspended by the NFL for the rest of the season, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said part of the reason was that Peterson didn’t appear to be contrite for beating his son. Now, he’s contrite. Read more →
Former Shattuck St. Mary’s hockey player Jack Johnson is tapped out, and mom and dad are to blame, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper says today.
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A deer hunter in Northfield isn’t doing much for the image of the sport.
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As the Minnesota Vikings season headed for the rocks, it seemed a lot of the attitude toward Adrian Peterson shifted too.
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Some students at the University of Minnesota are taking a stand for slacklines. Read more →
Two former football wives in the NFL are offering a dark picture of life inside the NFL when it comes to domestic abuse. Read more →