Bob Collins
Some big names are about to be taken off, the latest move to keep the Cup from being too big to parade about. Read more →
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If Minnesota is the state of hockey, where is the city of hockey? Read more →
Yelling ‘dilly dilly’, which apparently is a thing in golf now, will get you tossed out of The Masters golf tournament at Augusta National later this week.
Good. Can we get ‘get in the hole!’ added to the list?
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You had one job. Read more →
The Minnesota Twins are finding themselves at the center of an ongoing debate in sports: Are baseball’s unwritten rules insanely stupid or just mildly dumb? Read more →
Jim Abbott proved some years ago that you could make it to Major League Baseball as a pitcher without one hand. He even pitched a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians in 1993.
But can you be a catcher with just one arm? Read more →
Much ado is being made today of a study purporting to show that the thrill of a hockey game may be bad for a guy’s heart. I say, is there a better way to go? Read more →
It’s the busy time of year for accountants, but Foster, who plays hockey in some ‘beer leagues’, he says, found time to play goalie last night for the Chicago Blackhawks. Read more →
It’s going to be tougher this year for baseball fans to get closer to the players before games, a baseball tradition as old as spitting.
Safety netting is being extended at all ballparks this year to the end of the dugouts and in many parks — Target Field is one — all the way to the foul poles. Read more →
Professional baseball players tend to be conservatives who know how to keep quiet about things that might divide their fans.
Anthony Rizzo, star of the Chicago Cubs, doesn’t care about any of that. Read more →
When your team is playing a big game, you can’t let the fact you don’t know the person who owns the home you’re barging into to watch get in the way. Read more →
The threat of war in the world has eased considerably today.
There is peace in the ‘Circle Me, Bert’ standoff. Read more →
Tomorrow marks the unofficial national holiday that isn’t anymore: baseball’s opening day.
It’s a spring tradition, of course. Here’s another: Red Bull disguising Chicago Cubs star Kris Bryant and sending him out to see what the little people are up to. Read more →
No baseball institution is safe. Read more →
In a perfect world, someone will lift Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, wheelchair and all, to cut down the net after Loyola wins the NCAA basketball championship next week. Non-fans would be hard pressed to name any of the teams left in the annual celebration of college basketball but the world loves the devoted and loyal and Read more →