The Cooper High School girls basketball team won its first state championship ever 10 days ago. After the win, the girls were handed a catalog of championship rings and thought they could pick one out. Then they found out the rings cost $300 each. They couldn’t afford them. Read more →
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Some anglers think muskies destroy the walleye population so the bills would give counties veto power over lakes where the DNR stocks muskies and puts a moratorium on plans to expand lakes with muskie.
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Fargo Oak Grove junior guard Tommy Conmy packed bottles of sparkling cider to celebrate after his team’s North Dakota Class B, Region 1 boys basketball title game. It was a good plan; the school has won six of the last nine championships.
His team lost; so he gave it to his rivals. Read more →
Oh for cute! A little two-bedroom bungalow. A typical starter home that should come pretty cheap.
It won’t. Read more →
At the South Dakota Boys Class A Basketball Tournament in Rapid City, S.D., on Friday night, Steven Wilson had the honor of singing the National Anthem. And those in attendance had the honor of hearing it.
He sang in the Lakota language.
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‘This is a change we hope was inadvertent, and we’re going to lobby hard to get it corrected,’ the chief legal officer of Major League Baseball tells the New York Times. Read more →
Most of the players in minor league baseball, especially on teams in independent leagues such as the Saint Paul Saints, aren’t going anywhere.
But that’s not the way most of the public sees them, which is why there won’t be much notice today when/if Congress puts the screws to them by denying them minimum wage protections.
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There’s nothing quite like tournament time in Minnesota and some of the best moments occur away from the games. It happens on the highways into town as was the case Saturday in Brainerd.
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Last week’s signing of a franchise quarterback has Minnesota Vikings fans dreaming of Super Bowls.
What do you suppose Jackie Wallace, who played in two of them, is dreaming about these days? Read more →
The Lancaster, Pa., Barnstormers, one of the many independent minor league teams, are patting themselves on the back for their sensitivity to domestic assault by cutting a player after police released a video showing Danry Vasquez beating up his girlfriend in August 2016 at Whataburger Field in Texas, home of the Corpus Christi Hooks baseball Read more →
Forget the “Pohlads are cheap” mantra and let yourself get excited about the coming Twins season and a payroll that keeps the squad in the middle of the MLB pack. Read more →
Increasingly, basketball and urology is going hand in hand. Read more →
Check your sports cynicism at the door, people. The girl’s basketball tournament is underway. Read more →
Joe Smith earned $61 million dollars during his playing career, CNBC says. He’s living paycheck to paycheck and has $157,000 in debt. Read more →
Marie Wright, Canada’s lead for the women’s wheelchair curling team at the the Paralympic Games in South Korea, is ostensibly talking about curling here but is really offering a life lesson. One rock at a time. Read more →