Bob Collins
Baseball lends itself to a romance that no other sport can provide. This op-doc from a prison this week in the New York Times is proof of that. Read more →
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Sports
The original plan to renovate Target Center, home of the NBA Timberwolves and Garth Brooks, is a shell of its former self. Read more →
Which is worse: Forgetting the words to the National Anthem or giving it a new and different interpretation?
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These are the kind of words that, once you read them, you never forget.
‘What keeps me going is remembering why I’m here.’
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Fact: Football has the ratings, hockey has the excitement, basketball has the showbiz, soccer has the …. well, I don’t really understand what soccer has…. but nothing can whip up a community like a city in the throes of a World Series. Read more →
Step into the NewsCut Wayback Machine and set it for September 2013, when some local sportswriters were calling for the head of University of Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill, who had the audacity to have epilepsy.
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Golf courses here once would stay open until Christmas in good weather. In a warmer-than-normal fall this year, many courses have already called it quits for the season. There’s little to suggest it’ll make a comeback. Read more →
Former Minnesota Timberwolves star Kevin Love has penned a ‘goodbye’, sort of, to Minnesota Read more →
An Iowa family honors a man killed in a hay field. They went to a baseball game. Read more →
It was a tender moment on the ice Wednesday night before the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh hockey game. Read more →
St. Paul Academy has forfeited a playoff football game against Highland because only 14 players are still playing and officials are concerned it will be too big of a mismatch. Read more →
Over in Mosinee, Wisconsin, the 8-year-old brother of a Rhinelander High School player was made honorary team captain for Saturday’s game against Mosinee High School. Read more →
You don’t see a lot of 60-second ads on TV anymore unless it’s really good. This ad, which debuted last night during game one of the World Series and was directed by Spike Lee, is really good.
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Birds are having a tough time this with week with the two area newspapers. Read more →
The fall sports season is peaking and Bill Speros, who writes as ‘The Obnoxious Boston Sports Fan’ has heard enough of the one question every coach is hearing: ‘Why isn’t my kid playing?’ Your kid isn’t good enough, he says. Read more →