Bob CollinsGeek Squad founder Robert Stephens couldn’t say much about the company that made him rich when he sold his company to Best Buy. His contract with the company, which he left in 2012, prevented him from doing so. Now the handcuffs are off and he’s talking, the Pioneer Press’ Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes today. Read more →
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Archives for April 2014
The baseball fans in Tampa — all dozen or so of them — showed us how to settle our differences yesterday when a bat went flying into the stands and several gentlemen claimed ownership. Read more →
The fishing opener is a little more than a month away and — perhaps you’ve heard — winter doesn’t seem to want to let go of its warm embrace. Read more →
At the heart of the kerfuffle that broke out this week between promoters of a hip-hop current and the artists is our inability to talk honestly and productively about race in the Twin Cities. Read more →
And now this antidote for last week’s story about college sports players who skated through high school thanks to educators who were more than willing to pass illiterate students and some parents who didn’t seem to care. Read more →
Paul Tosto
The talk’s been bubbling for a week or so that Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor was poised to buy the Star Tribune. Today, the side went public detailing Taylor’s plans to buy the state’s biggest newspaper. Read more →
In a perfect world on April Fool’s Day, the Boston Red Sox would’ve played a great joke on teammate Johnny Gomes, who bought all of his teammates the ridiculous sport coats I wrote about last week to wear at their White House meeting with President Obama today. They were being honored for last year’s World Series victory.
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There appears to be no middle ground in the final episode of How I Met Your Mother: You either loved the ending or hated it, apparently. Read more →
Coincidence? Less than a month since NPR and Pro Publica blew the whistle on the foot-dragging ways of the military to identify the remains of unknown soldiers, the Pentagon is going to bring the process into the 21st century. Read more →
A case in Delaware is raising an old philosophical debate: Is prison for punishing someone or getting them treatment?
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The Star Tribune, predictably, has come out with solid support for giving the National Football League whatever it wants in exchange for letting Minneapolis host a Super Bowl in 2018 or 2019.
In its editorial today, the Strib stretches credulity in dispelling the notion that a Super Bowl is a chit in exchange for taxpayers ponying up a massive amount of money for the new home for the Vikings, in which the Super Bowl would be played. Read more →