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Vikings and/or Chris Kluwe fans will be playing the ‘Guess the Uncooperative Person’ game today as the probe continues into whether the former Vikings punter lost his job because of his outspoken views on same-sex marriage. Read more →
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The experts say there’s no way the Minnesota Twins could’ve known David Ortiz would become a feared hitter. They’re wrong. Read more →
Isaac Kolstad, beaten nearly to death outside a Mankato bar last weekend, remains in a coma. Philip Nelson, the former University of Minnesota quarterback, is facing up to 25 years in prison. Both men’s lives will never been the same.
Was it racist of me to point that last part out? Read more →
The handshake at the end of a Stanley Cup playoff series, sadly, occurred at the Xcel last night after the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 in overtime. Read more →
There were the predictable, “how am I supposed to explain this to my child?” comments after Michael Sam was drafted at the end of the NFL draft last weekend and kissed his partner. This video might help. Might not be suitable for some workplaces. Related: Brennan: Michael Sam most important football player in U.S. (USA Read more →
We’re not sure we’re ready for this yet. The Minnesota Lynx have removed the name from the jerseys. We knew it was coming when they signed a marketing deal with the Mayo Clinic, but we like this… Over this… Media Day @minnesotalynx @twin1532 @janelmccarville @Lindsay_13 @seimoneaugustus @mooremaya. #LosLynx #Champions pic.twitter.com/bmFeLRWSPX — David Sherman (@David_Sherman) May Read more →
The Minnesota Vikings may be looking to dump Adrian Peterson, Bleacher Report’s Mike Freeman is reporting. Read more →
The Minnesota Wild haven’t been eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs, but Deadspin isn’t letting that fact stop it from shoveling dirt on the squad. Read more →
Michael Sam, who plays football and is also gay, was selected by the St. Louis Rams very late — some say far too late — in the NFL draft over the weekend. The Rams made a statement with the pick and now might face another difficult challenge: how to cut Michael Sam. Read more →
The world has now mostly moved on from last month’s story from Nepal, where more than a dozen sherpas were killed as they climbed Mt. Everest. Their job is to go first and do the heavy lifting for climbers. Today, the New York Times provided this video of many of the sherpas, just before their Read more →
Voters rarely get the opportunity to take a stand on public funding of sports stadiums, so when Cleveland went to the polls this week for continued taxpayer subsidies, it provided a good barometer of public sentiment on the issue. What did we learn? That the vocal opposition to stadiums might be overblown, taxes to support Read more →
Anybody who hung around downtown Saint Paul during the 2008 Republican National Convention knows that it was a dud for most local businesses. It wasn’t surprising; analysis of other conventions showed somewhat similar results. What sounds like a big infusion of cash barely makes a ripple. But local officials put out a post-mortem assessment saying Read more →
What’s wrong with us? Just about everything when it comes to adults and youth sports, Read more →
Is it time to turn the page on the University of Iowa’s infamous pink visitors’ locker room at Kinnick Stadium?
Famed coach Hayden Fry had the locker room painted pink in 1979, and the university added pink urinals in a renovation in 2005. Read more →
Take a sport played predominantly by whites and followed by predominantly white fans, add a city with a racist reputation, and mix in some social media and you have the ugly result in Boston this week when the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins began their playoff series. Read more →