Bob Collins
The kids of the Aquinas girls basketball team on Thursday showed us why they’re two-time state champions. Read more →
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Forget Minneapolis. For the true role that college sports can play in society, and an actual intellectual exercise, you’ll have to go to Tampa, Fla.
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Princehoward Barbecue Yee, of Falmouth, Maine, made a federal case last year out of his insistence that he be allowed to play baseball at Deering High School, which is in another school district from his residence. Read more →
Perhaps it won’t be long before hockey acknowledges what is increasingly becoming clear: constant hits damage the brain. Read more →
The Cleveland media spent much of the weekend complaining that the Minnesota Twins didn’t build a domed ballpark, thanks to a stiff wind and 37 degree temperatures for the opening series of the 2019 baseball stadium. Read more →
Dolly Bauer, formerly of Durand, Wis., has dementia now and lives at a memory care facility in Eau Claire. Music and dance brings her back from the fog of Alzheimer’s. Read more →
Officer Joshua Bradley, a rookie on the Austin, Minn., police department couldn’t resist a challenge last week when he saw Taige Iverson, who runs 100 meter hurdles, practicing with her high school teammates.
Bradley did OK for an old guy of 21. Read more →
Todd Palmer, an athletic director at Brown High School in Sturgis, S.D., was pretty excited that his daughter would be playing in the NCAA Sweet 16 basketball tournament for the South Dakota Jackrabbits in Portland, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader says. Just one problem: he couldn’t go. Read more →
The ACLU had threatened a lawsuit against the Kenosha Unified School District after some parents and cheerleaders objected to the award and the New York Times wrote about. The coach circumvented the outrage, however, by announcing that parents would be excluded from the next team banquet.
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Why, no, we do not ever tire of the annual promotional hype surrounding an appearance in these parts by the Harlem Globetrotters. Read more →
The nation is awash in red ink, a path hastened by President Trump’s tax cuts in 2018. It was pretty much a given that subsequent budgets would have to pay for the giveaway through cuts to those with the least political power, but the announcement this week that the administration will whack support for Special Olympics still took people by surprise and a fair amount of disgust. Read more →
We’re certainly aware that it’s fashionable these days to proclaim baseball an irrelevant and dying sport, with its staid traditions and constant stories of connecting parents, grandparents, and children. That, we will argue, is the strength it has left and to prove it, we point today to Jim Walsh’s excellent story in Southwest Journal about Read more →
Who among us hasn’t gone through life asking its critical question, ‘what can we do that’s fun and stupid?’ Read more →
Can you be the State of Hockey and not have the top “hockey city” in the country, Minnesota? Sure. Read more →
An amateur league playoff game in western New York was canceled because of racism last weekend. Read more →