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Tag: Sports
What year is this? 2019? And we still think it’s funny to put people in this horrible, awkward space? Read more →
Laura McCallum
Gov. Mark Dayton meets today with the state’s golden girl of Nordic skiing, Jessie Diggins. Her Olympic success is bringing some much-needed recognition to the sport’s triumphs and challenges. Read more →
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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Despite increasing knowledge of how the game is scrambling the brains of its players and the political fallout from protests for racial equity, football appears to be surviving just fine.
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The first big race of the season is set for Sunday — the Daytona 500 — and there’s a stench of a sport’s death mixing with that of burning rubber. Read more →
If Chicago can’t rally around a 97-year old man who survived Pearl Harbor, there’s something wrong. All you have to do, Chicago, is give up your tickets to a Cubs World Series game. Read more →
Jeff Bradley used to be somebody, he says. He was a sportswriter. He covered the Yankees for the Newark Star Ledger. He wrote for ESPN the Magazine. He’s had his work featured in Sports Illustrated
But when he was laid off, he became more like the rest of of the somebodies in America who can’t find work even as they’re told the economy is zipping right along and unemployment is low.
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That there’s at least a little expression of shame surrounding the University of Minnesota athletics department today can be described like this: ‘It’s a good start.’
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Come and get me, coppers. I’m going to bet on the NCAA tournament if an office pool should be created by unnamed ne’er-do-wells known to inhabit the cubicles of public radio. Read more →
The next time you wonder what’s the difference between men’s and women’s college sports, look no further than the University of Minnesota Duluth, which has announced it won’t renew the contracts of the women’s hockey coach, Shannon Miller, because of ‘financial considerations.’ Read more →
You don’t see a lot of 60-second ads on TV anymore unless it’s really good. This ad, which debuted last night during game one of the World Series and was directed by Spike Lee, is really good.
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The name of the game in the Minnesota State High School League basketball tournament is winning, so is it a problem if a team exploits the rules and wins in a way that doesn’t seem quite right? Read more →
America’s luck on the ice hasn’t changed in Sochi since the U.S. men’s hockey team came home empty-handed and the women settled for a silver after having the gold practically around their necks. Read more →
Pat Garofolo and some online friends were dissing the National Basketball Association, where the majority of players are African American, when he took it a step further by linking its players with crime. Read more →