Bob Collins
We are willing to overlook “the wave,” but let’s try to nip a sudden phenomenon in the bud. Cellphone lights. Read more →
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It is unlikely that the Minnesota Legislature envisioned a case of a son suing his father when it passed a bill years ago to encourage landowners to open their land to the public for hunting. Can your son be “the public”? Read more →
All Sioux Falls Christian senior Kate Wynja had to do yesterday to win the second round of the Class A state golf meet and her second high school championship was stay quiet.
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There is no sports team in Minnesota that leads like the Minnesota Lynx.
Now, they’re showing the world an alternative to the hackneyed invite to the White House. Read more →
The lack of a clock has led to games where players just stand and hold the ball for minutes with no action, but the high school league isn’t on board yet. WDAY says the league cited the cost of installing the shot clock. Read more →
Posit: The Minnesota Lynx are more important than any other professional sports team in the region. Read more →
Let’s fully understand what yesterday’s decision by NFL owners to crack down on employee protest is. The owners, under pressure from the government in the form of the President of the United States, agreed to modify its speech to please that government.
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Santa Fe isn’t new to being at the center of national attention and it knows a lot about prayers. It’s where school prayer at high school football games met its end. Read more →
They said goodbye to Billy Noss yesterday in Eau Claire in a fitting reminder to the rest of us that the glue that makes a community a better place is anyone overflowing with niceness. Read more →
What’s the best part about tournament time?
Towns that give a proper send-off to their kids. Read more →
It’s a recognition that the race’s boom times probably aren’t coming back with a 373-mile race that evokes a historic route for transporting mail. Read more →
The NCAA has relented on its longstanding opposition to allowing tournaments in states where sports gambling is allowed; not that it had much of a choice following this week’s Supreme Court decision striking down laws against sports bookmaking anywhere but Vegas. Read more →
Pay no attention to the sportswriters and their incessant focus on what’s wrong with baseball. They’re on the clock; they’re like most people who are working: they just want to go home. Forget them.
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Something new to remember the next time a sports team comes asking for public money for a stadium: The value of their teams just doubled, according to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, citing today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a federal law banning sports betting in states not named Nevada. Read more →
Dwane Casey has made a habit of coaching well and losing his job. Read more →