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.
One of the most interesting thing about marathons is nobody really cares who wins the things except for the most hard-core running fans.
Instead, it’s this scene (and dozens like it) that captures the essence of Sunday’s Twin Cities Marathon.
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David Greene’s job is to ask tough questions but his interview today — or at least the way it was edited for broadcast — was more about what a tough interview it was for him because Hynde was clearly tired of answering the same, old questions about her book, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender, in which she claimed responsibility for what would be characterized as a sexual assault. Read more →
Fifty years ago today, Sandy Koufax — perhaps the greatest pitcher of his generation — sat in the St. Paul Hotel while his team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, played game one of the World Series against the Minnesota Twins in Bloomington.
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While you think about whether you really want to go to work today, let’s just plant this idea in your head: Run a pie shop, instead. Read more →
General Mills has done it again with its latest ad for Cheerios. Read more →
Among the more dispiriting debates for journalists in recent years is the one that’s picked up steam in the last few days: Should news organizations name the man who opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon last week. His name, by the way, was Chris Harper-Mercer. This should be a no-brainer. It’s the Read more →
Last Thursday, New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia pitched five innings to win the game that clinched a wild card spot for the Yankees. Read more →
A week ago, we were pretty enthralled with the moon, which provided a show during a lunar eclipse. It was like old times. Excitement about the moon.
It’s probably coincidence, though, that Kipp Teague, an information technology specialist in Virgina, has done more in the last week to remind us of a time when the moon was special, than any human has since a small group of men traveled there.
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A Washington Post story reports 70 percent of kids stop playing team sports by the time they turn 13. They’re not good enough to play on the elite teams that have taken over the focus of parents and adults. Read more →
The Kennedy clan is circling the wagons after Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Edward Kennedy, released his book detailing his struggles with substance abuse and bipolar disorder.
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The New York Times says the barrage of ads for fantasy sports sites offering multi-million dollar riches isn’t what Congress had in mind when it exempted fantasy sports from a law making online gambling illegal. Read more →
Oh, your state doesn’t have a Supreme Court justice (now retired) who blows his tuba to support marathoners?
Mine does. Read more →
It’s probably not earth-shattering news that love can conquer all but love can conquer all.
Taylor Morris and Danielle Kelly are getting married on Saturday down in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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This video, from an Arizona Diamondbacks broadcast earlier this week, was like blood in the water for the professionally outraged and judgmental — in order words: Twitter and Facebook.
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The athletic department coaches who still collect a paycheck at the University of Minnesota Duluth have broken a long silence after nearly a year of controversy surrounding athletic director Josh Berlo, who removed several high-profile female coaches from the ranks.
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