Bob CollinsThe Minnesota Twins return to Target Field tonight after a disastrous road trip. Abandon all hope, ye who enter. It’s over. Division leader Cleveland has played mediocre baseball all season, and they now have a 12-game lead over the Twins. Read more →
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Everybody on a Stanley Cup-winning team gets to spend a day with the Cup. They can do pretty much whatever they want.
Today, it was the equipment manager’s turn. So Craig Leydig took it to The Capital Gazette, where five people were killed in a mass shooting last week. Read more →
he travel team’s visit to the home field of Team Unnamed started well enough. When they arrived the host parents welcomed the players and parents and thanked them for traveling so far to play their team in a rescheduled game.
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Chris GravesCollin Martin, the 23-year-old midfielder with the Minnesota United, took to Twitter Friday to announce he is gay. He is wrapped in a Pride flag on his post and he tells his followers the team is celebrating Pride at the game on Friday. “It’s an important night for me,” he said. “I’ll be announcing for the Read more →
Two Minnesota athletes posed naked for this months ESPN Magazine. Only one seems to be getting much attention for doing so. Read more →
Katie Erbe-Shea, one of Minnesota’s best high school basketball players back in the day, will not be getting the head coaching job at Lourdes High School, the Catholic high school in Rochester.
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We are consistently impressed with the ingenuity and passion of the people who love to fish. Read more →
Kingsport, Tennessee’s athletic director wins the competition for understatement this week with this observation after a brawl broke out between parents watching their girls play softball. Read more →
Father’s Day is particularly poignant when your dad is slipping away into the fog of Alzheimer’s.
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The security show is in the spotlight in Milwaukee because of some pushback to the sight of cops toting assault rifles at Miller Park, the home of the Milwaukee Brewers. Read more →
Former NHL player Nick Boynton — an ‘enforcer’ in his days in hockey — penned what initially sounded very much like a suicide note today on The Players Tribune. Read more →
If there’s one statistic that reveals the extent to which parents and some coaches are out of control when it comes to pushing their kids to a big payday in professional baseball it’s this one: more than half of all “Tommy John” surgeries in the United States are performed on kids between 15 and 19.
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It was a heck of a moment for the kids of Mounds View who defeated Totino-Grace in the Class 4A, Section 5 final last week when Mounds View pitcher Ty Koehn struck out Totino-Grace’s Jack Kocon to end the game, preserving a 17-to-10 win. Read more →
During the downpour on Saturday, probably three hours into what turned out to be a four-hour rain delay, nobody was in the entire upper deck of the outfield seating at Target Field in Minneapolis except a father and his little boy (7 or 8 years old, I’d guess), who were under the scoreboard overhang. The boy was patiently waiting, his baseball glove still on his hand. Read more →
Professional sports provides a distraction from life’s realities, but the athletic force field is no match for a scourge like Alzheimer’s. Read more →