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The twist this year: Assessing how great the kids’ lives have become because they made the hockey hair all-star team. Read more →
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Northeastern University’s women’s basketball team’s bus got stuck in the snow during a blizzard yesterday in Philadelphia. But their women. Women handle stuff. Consider it handled.
No problem. They’re women. Women handle stuff. Consider it handled.
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It took a Massachusetts school superintendent to do what a girls basketball coach could not: apologize for running up the score in a sectional playoff game.
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A panic attack during a November game changed the way the ex-Timberwolves player thinks about mental health. Read more →
There are some moments that seem uniquely Minnesotan. This is one of them. Read more →
Golf Digest blogger Joel Beall thinks Minnesota should move on from Prince, though from his column this week, it’s not entirely clear what we should move on to, given that it’s the only identity Minnesotans have. Read more →
Restrictions on gun sales, announced by Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart, are pretty good news for gun dealers not named Dick’s Sporting Goods or Walmart. Read more →
Marshall High School’s stalling strategy against Waseca in Minnesota’s Section 2AAA tournament on Tuesday night made for an ugly game, for many reasons. Read more →
Jordan Bohannon, Iowa’s sophomore guard, went to the free-throw line with a chance to erase Chris Street’s name from the team record books. All he had to do was make a free throw. No big deal; he’d already made 34 in a row. Thirty-five would’ve given him the new record. He didn’t want the new record. Read more →
In about a month, this is going to be the most popular team in the state of hockey, which is saying something considering that’s nearly the time when the NHL playoffs. Read more →
That tender Comcast tribute to Jesse Diggins hometown of Afton appears to actually be Stillwater. Read more →
How do you know someone at the Olympics is doping.
They wear T-shirts that say ‘I Don’t Do Doping.’
Also, they’re Russian athletes. Read more →
Elizabeth Swaney’s motto might as well be, ‘somebody’s got to finish in last place.’
Mission accomplished. Read more →
‘The cameras are going to move on, the demands of everyday life will intrude again, classes are going to resume, the seasons are going to change, the sun is going to come up, and all we’ll have are each other.’
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Religion and sports has married in the world of soccer where the faithful fans of Liverpool have created an ‘I’ll be Muslim too’ chant to honor their star player, Mohamed Salah. Read more →