Bob Collins
America’s luck on the ice hasn’t changed in Sochi since the U.S. men’s hockey team came home empty-handed and the women settled for a silver after having the gold practically around their necks. Read more →
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What makes Minnesota the state of hockey? We don’t have ties if a game goes too long. We make them play ’til they drop. The record for longest high school hockey game in history sits right here in Minnesota. Or does it? Read more →
Pat Garofolo and some online friends were dissing the National Basketball Association, where the majority of players are African American, when he took it a step further by linking its players with crime. Read more →
At the state high school wrestling tournament, St. Michael Albertville High School’s Mitchell McKee really wanted to win the state title for his father, who has terminal cancer. Read more →
This is the sort of story that could turn a person into a soccer fan for good. Ayo Dosumu, 7, ran onto the field — pitch, whatever — in South Africa. Security stopped him before he could do any damage, but then a Brazilian player grabbed him and gave us today’s daily dose of cute. Read more →
If we can’t get excited about Minnesota’s kids — the ones that perhaps don’t have NHL careers ahead of them — playing for a state hockey title, can we really call ourselves the state of hockey? Read more →
News that long-time St. Paul Saints season ticket holders are being squeezed out in the new park is worrisome. Read more →
There’s an effort to get opening day named a national holiday. Read more →
Nothing against you personally, Warroad, but you’re not the only city in Minnesota with a little hometown pride when it comes to athletes in competition. You just get all the attention. In the tiny city of Hendricks yesterday, population about 700, about 80 people turned out at The Local, a restaurant in town, to watch Read more →
“It’s not unsporting for athletes to cry when they come up short. But it is unsporting to chastise them for it.”
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Yes, it’s hockey. But at least Canada is united on something. What about the U.S.? Read more →
The timing of the NBA trade deadline and the Kevin Love rumors couldn’t be worse for the Timberwolves. Read more →
As secretly shameless as the BMW connection is, NBC’s coverage of “the moms” has been an out-in-the-open payoff. Read more →
Today’s temperatures are a stark reminder that spring is coming and there’s nothing you can do to hold onto winter, try as you might.
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h/t: NBC The USA doesn’t have the market cornered on pushy, obnoxious sports parents. Norwegian Martin Johnsrud Sundby tried his best at Friday’s 15k classic in Sochi, NBC reports. But it wasn’t good enough. Given the opportunity to offer her progeny a little motherly comfort, his mother spit on the Olympic spirit instead. “You’re the Read more →