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Love, having spurned Minnesota, now takes his place in the long line of vilified Minnesota athletes. But basketball is a business, and Love and his agent played their hand perfectly. Read more →
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The University of Minnesota reportedly is joining an attempt to prevent the Vikings from using the word Redskins in promotional advertising for its Nov. 2 game at TCF Bank Stadium. Read more →
He and his wife having paid off student loans in the last year, Daniel Sarles wasn’t looking forward to the idea of going right back into debt. But the 20-year old Camry with more than 200,000 miles wasn’t getting any younger. The Minneapolis man, 28, a financial analyst for UCare, has been driving it since Read more →
It’s not hard to find men coaching sports played by women. So why aren’t there women coaching men’s teams? Ask no more, NBA fans. The San Antonio Spurs, perhaps the finest basketball organization in America, today hired a woman as an assistant coach. Becky Hammon is in her final season — her 16th — with Read more →
In a POW camp, baseball was the one constant, said a WWII POW who this evening will throw out the first pitch at a minor league baseball game in town. Read more →
It’s probably not much of a secret that Kevin Love has played his last game in a Minnesota Timberwolves uniform. Today, there’s another indication that he’s about to start playing them in a Cleveland Cavaliers uniform. According to the website, BC Cleveland, the NBA online store has discontinued selling the Andrew Wiggins Cavalier jersey, even Read more →
Here's Knoblauch's mug shot from when he was arrested yesterday after allegedly beating his wife in front of family. pic.twitter.com/XQL5zXcQ06 — Jace Larson KPRC (@jacelarson) July 24, 2014 The Minnesota Twins have decided to cancel their hall of fame induction of former secondbaseman Chuck Knoblauch. The only question is why they intended to honor him Read more →
For minutes of cubicle fun, today’s recommendation goes to Don’t Fly Drones Here, a website that shows where you can fly your quadcopter, to be more accurate in terms. Take the Minneapolis Saint Paul area, for example. As colleague, Scott Olstad points out, he could fly his quadcopter over NE Minneapolis, but not over Saint Read more →
If you want a great example of how a pro athlete can be a proper role model for kids, look no further than the scene around Target Center last evening. The Lynx are the home team but it was the Atlanta Dream who seemed to be the team of choice for many of the fans, Read more →
Chris Kluwe is finished in this town. Don't worry folks, you'll know when I'm on tilt. The Vikings clearly think turning this dirty will scare me off. Says all you need to know. — Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft) July 19, 2014 The former Minnesota Viking punter, who became a folk hero during the debate over an Read more →
Agnes McKee has got some game. She’s 105 years old and yesterday, with one hand on her walker, she did this in San Diego. Well, of course, she threw a nice pitch. She’d been practicing. Her goal, she says, is to walk again without a walker.
It is an ill-kept secret that your NewsCut host wants to catch a baseball (foul or fair; doesn’t matter) at a major league game before he expires on the planet. Like this guy almost did in the upper deck at Target Field during the Home Run Derby the other night. Jordan Jacobson stuck out his Read more →
Fox created the controversy in the first place, then dismissed the controversy as the fault of social media. Read more →
Derek Jeter will get the extended standing ovation and, with any luck at all, the Minnesota fans will seize the moment and do the Jeter chant. Read more →
It’s too late for Glenn Burke but Major League Baseball might be taking one tiny, overdue step in acknowledging the gay athlete by inviting his family to the All-Star Game. Read more →