Bob Collins
How fast does an outfielder throw a ball?
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Hart Van DenburgProponents of a new Vikings stadium are renewing efforts to secure public funds now that an agreement to solve the state budget impasse appears within reach. Vikings owner Zygi Wilf spoke with Gov. Mark Dayton on Friday, according to team vice president Lester Bagley. Bagley said the team was hoping to get a deal done Read more →
A performer for Cirque Cirque du Soleil threw out the first pitch at a San Diego Padres game.
A video has surfaced which confirms reports that the ‘kissing couple’ in Vancouver had actually just been trampled by the cops.
Twins fans are understandably anxious to see if the team can make history. It already has.
It’s true. In the middle of June, a point guard from Europe whose statistics aren’t that good got more attention than a local baseball team that may be in the middle of one of the greatest comebacks in the history of baseball.
I’m just going to go ahead and assume these are Boston Bruins fans in the midst of the carnage in Vancouver last night.
City Pages reports that the Minnesota Twins have given a good talking to to a security guard who scolded a lesbian couple for a brief kiss before one headed off to the bathroom.
While I still read the occasional online ‘flame’ from some of my bike-riding friends about some assault on sensibility, I’m not hearing as much bike vs. driver debate as I did just a few years ago.
Living out your toy dreams
David Cazares
With the 2011 NHL season nearing its final act (and the Minnesota Wild season a distant memory) MPR News editor Bill Wareham offers this remembrance of a time 20 years ago when professional hockey in Minnesota might have reached its peak.
To many of us Timberwolves rubes, last night’s comments from David Kahn, the general manager of the local NBA franchise, seemed like a joke. Some people didn’t get it.
Harmon Killebrew and the Impossible Dream