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Today’s story also appears to illuminate the extent to which some of the nation’s top sportswriters have covered for the NFL. Read more →
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Just a few months after a racist rant forced Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling out of the National Basketball Association, another NBA owner is voluntarily selling his team after an allegedly racist email surfaced. Read more →
Derek Jeter answers a reporter’s cellphone during his news conference. Read more →
Well, here we are. The opening Sunday of football season for the NFL. A chance to follow through on the off-season promises not to support the NFL because you don’t like the owners holding up local taxpayers for a new stadium, or the meager punishment handed out to those players who beat their wives and Read more →
Though we are often powerless to prevent that which we can’t see coming, we have full control over how we respond to it. Read more →
On a scale of 9 to 10, how would you rate the Minnesota Twins, who are about to turn in their fourth consecutive 90-loss season? The little franchise that couldn’t is getting poked today for a survey it sent to ticket-buyers. ESPN’s Keith Olbermann last night awarded the Twins marketing department its gold medal in Read more →
In the “two Americas,” the nation gets behind a kid who can play baseball, especially if the team is credited with “uplifting America” but tends to look the other way when a kid is homeless. Read more →
While the new Minnesota Timberwolves were enthralling fans at the Minnesota State Fair today, the Cleveland sports media welcomed Kevin Love, the first time Love has spoken since he forced a trade from the Timberwolves. “It means a lot,” he said. “LeBron had signed to come back with the Cleveland Cavaliers and just a few Read more →
Football is deeply American and reflects our values and likes. And that’s the problem. We love us a good war or two. Read more →
Kevin Love is gone now and the Ricky Rubio watch is now officially underway with a report that the onetime franchise savior has turned down a deal that would keep him in Minnesota. Read more →
Kevin Love is shedding his past in a big way, first dumping Minnesota and now the number — 42 — he’s worn in high school, college at UCLA, and in the NBA with the Timberwolves. The new number? Behold: We won’t know for certain what this is all about until Love is introduced to the Read more →
Cleveland is already treating Kevin Love with the adoration Minnesota never did. He’s not even the top player on his team and he gets the mural-on-the-side-of-a-building treatment. So this is going up in downtown Cleveland as we speak. #Love pic.twitter.com/v2xZfrvNFm — Dustin Fox (@DustinFox37) August 25, 2014 Coincidentally, the mural replaces another one on the Read more →
Cubs fans created the worst “tradition” in the history of baseball — throwing a home run from the other team back onto the field — and a play yesterday highlighted it.
Golf has been losing its popularity in recent years. Maybe it’s just too courteous. Read more →
Well played, Twin Cities comedian Mike Brody. Related: Kevin Love: Overrated, Underrated, or Properly Rated? (Grantland).