Bob Collins
There’s more to ‘living up to the hype’ than how much money business made on the deal. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Sports
This is the first year since 1989 that high school football semifinal games have been played anywhere but the Metrodome in Minneapolis, and the Dome is having the last laugh. Read more →
Take a long look at this picture of former Minnesota Viking Orlando Thomas. Read more →
In a perfect world, love alone would cure cancer. Read more →
We’re not even at the end of it yet and it’s already been an odd week for trying to establish parallels with football.
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Though we’ve never met anyone who actually eats Wheaties, this new box is the sort of thing that can make a person give it a try. Read more →
Welcome to the airport security line with we little people, NFL players! Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League, the governing body of high school sports, is pretty strict about talented kids jumping from school to school. When a kid transfers, he/she has to sit out a year. Otherwise, high school athletics would become like the pros — ‘free agents’ would be jumping from school to school.
Should it make a difference if the athlete has a disability? Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League may yet acknowledge two high school girls whom it disqualified for helping another runner at state cross country meet in Northfield last week. Read more →
It undoubtedly wouldn’t matter to those involved — a sense of decency is a powerful thing — but the decision to disqualify two runners who helped an injured competitor still undermines the whole ‘sports is meant to teach children’ notion that’s the underpinning of its existence. Read more →
It doesn’t really matter that the opposing team wasn’t that interested in tight defense; the game wasn’t really the point at that point anyway.
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The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports a bookmaker in New York has pleaded guilty to trying to launder a check for $230,000 that paid off gambling debts. The check was a New York Islanders paycheck and the paper is suggesting it might have been Thomas Vanek’s. He now plays for the Minnesota Wild.
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Reddit and the website SB Nation had a lot of fun with this photo of a Timberwolves ticket taped to a pole. There’s probably more to the story than a person who didn’t want to go to the game. Read more →
There isn’t anybody in the radio business who is going to give Rikk Wilde a hard time.
Most of us have been there. You’ve just run up a flight of stairs, or you’re nervous to begin with, and when the microphone goes on, there you are unable to remember whether it’s time to breathe in or breathe out, and slowly suffocating. Read more →
It was another metaphorical moment for the greatest game ever invented. There is is risk in reward and, sometime, failure in playing it safe. Read more →