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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Sports

What have you done for me lately?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 30, 2011, 10:19 AM Sep 30, 2011
5

If you ever want to see the difference between the sports universe of the northeast and the Midwest, look no further than Boston.

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Pulling for a coach

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 29, 2011, 11:01 AM Sep 29, 2011
4

Minnesota wants a winner, but this ain’t Texas.

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Kid vs. foul ball: You decide

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2011, 10:44 AM Sep 27, 2011
1

A foul ball is heading your way at a baseball game. You’re holding your kid. What do you do?

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The many faces of Rick Adelman

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2011, 2:48 PM Sep 12, 2011
3

According to Timberwolves forward Kevin Love, via Twitter, the team has hired Rick Adelman as a coach.

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A parachutist’s view of TCF bank stadium

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2011, 11:43 AM Sep 12, 2011
3

From high above you can get a good shot at the empty student section.

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Is our love of hockey enforcers killing them?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2011, 11:18 AM Sep 3, 2011

Some of the biggest enforcers in the game are dying.

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The bike racks of Saint Paul

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2011, 7:50 AM Sep 3, 2011
1

Famed St. Paul blogger Teresa Boardman has a good question for the city: What’s the deal putting bike racks around businesses with no bike traffic?

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America’s religion: Football

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2011, 2:19 PM Sep 2, 2011
3

A high school in Dearborn, Michigan — home to one of the country’s largest population of Muslim Americans — is providing a lesson than when it comes to religion in America, football rules.

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The cost of telling the truth

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 12:37 PM Sep 1, 2011
5

For a family that just got stiffed out of $50,000, the Smith family seemed pretty chipper today when national TV asked them to get up early in Faribault.

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The definitive, maybe, sort of prediction about Joe Mauer’s future

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 29, 2011, 3:30 PM Aug 29, 2011
2

A comment in the earlier post about Joe Mauer moved me to pull out a spreadsheet I haven’t touched since 2003 today.

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The Mauer equation

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 29, 2011, 12:48 PM Aug 29, 2011
3

Joe Mauer is, by all accounts a nice guy. Would you rather have a jerk on the Twins if it increases the chance of winning?

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Much ado about Beasley

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 5, 2011, 11:09 AM Aug 5, 2011
5

If you only paid attention to the news reports of Minnesota Timberwolves player Michael Beasley’s run-in with a fan during an exhibition game, you’d think he’d drowned a bagful of kittens.

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Makings waves over the wave

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 4, 2011, 12:17 PM Aug 4, 2011
2

It started as a joke, but maybe there’s some life to the ‘stop the wave’ movement that’s growing in — where else? — Texas?

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On Randy Moss

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 2:32 PM Aug 1, 2011
2

Randy Moss played on teams that went 15-1 and 16-0 and still came up empty for Super Bowl championships.

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The kid and the baseball II

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 29, 2011, 2:14 PM Jul 29, 2011
5

It’s Friday and Friday is for not being depressed about the news.

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