Here’s your daily dose of sweetness.
Over in Mosinee, Wisconsin, the 8-year-old brother of a Rhinelander High School player was made honorary team captain for Saturday’s game against Mosinee High School.
The game was pretty much over — the score was some number to some other number — when the teams decided to have one more play for the kid with Down Syndrome.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins