Bob CollinsOshie for president. Except he's like 15 years old. — Amanda Rykoff (@amandarykoff) February 15, 2014 Putin just ordered all out nuke strike on Warroad. — Blues & Baseball (@BluesnBaseball) February 15, 2014 The face that'll keep Putin awake tonight. pic.twitter.com/SpwEi5jBEt — BarstoolTrent (@BarstoolTrent) February 15, 2014 They'll re-ice now with Putin tears. — Seth Read more →
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Sports
It’s anonymous email and letter season for some high school sports fans. With the state hockey tournament set to start, and its becoming clear that only a few berths remain in the grasp of some teams, there is the occasional complaint — usually anonymous — that a team in the running is cheating. The Star Read more →
The Canadians show us that the Olympics can be a place of dignity and goodwill. Read more →
The guy leading the VIkings stadium construction has been tweeting cool pictures of the Metrodome destruction. He says the team and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Commission have asked him to stop. Read more →
People on the Canadian border can access CBC coverage, which is much more robust — almost three times the number of hours of coverage as the U.S. side. Read more →
It turns out that if you might be drafted in the NFL, you don’t just call up a reporter and say you’re gay. There’s a little more information about the lengths to which his agents had to go in an article on Outsports.com. Among the nuggets: Former Viking Chris Kluwe, currently embroiled in a legal Read more →
The Boston Marathon is a fairly soft target for terrorists. Twenty-six miles of city streets can’t be locked down, especially with the carnival atmosphere that accompanies the event. “We are never going to reduce the risk to zero in any event, especially ones that attract hundreds of thousands of people, but we have to do Read more →
Three statistical stories today that will make you spit out your beer. Read more →
Even a week later we still wonder why on earth people would want to bike (or hike or ski) 135 miles across northern Minnesota in the dead of winter. Read more →
What are the odds that a day after winning a Super Bowl, the Super Bowl trophy would arrive back in Minnesota? It happened today. The Delta charter for the Seattle Seahawks, on their way home after yesterday’s game, diverted to Minnesota reportedly because of the need for a change of pilots and crew under FAA Read more →
From the day we moved here in 1992, I never developed the hatred of the Metrodome that a lot of area sports fans did. So you’ll have to forgive me if I find that some of the pictures showing up on Twitter today some with a heaping helping of melancholy. Read more →
Should the skyways of Nicollet Mall be destroyed, what does it take to cancel school around here (and elsewhere), the commercial drone war has already started, Rod Carew’s mission, and the growing legend of Derrick Coleman. Read more →
Seattle’s taking the Seahawks’ “12th man” rallying cry pretty seriously leading up to the Super Bowl. Read more →
It was -24 in International Falls, Minn., this morning when 135 or so people started the Arrowhead 135, the race in which people bicycle, ski, or run there way to Fortune Bay. Read more →
The mayor of the city that is about to be honored by hosting the Winter Olympics says there are no gay people in his city. Read more →