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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Sports

Weather

Minnesota moments: Dog sledding

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 4, 2014, 6:01 AM Mar 4, 2014
1

Sure, it was cold again overnight with a little bit of snow and there’s no indication spring is anywhere in sight. Trust me, we’re one morning closer than we were at this time yesterday. In the meantime, we present today’s “Can your summer do this?” entry. Related: Chisholm musher begins run in grueling Iditarod (Duluth Read more →

Five by 8

The state of snowplowing in the state (5×8 – 2/24/14)

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 24, 2014, 6:58 AM Feb 24, 2014
14

Is plowing really worse now, the need for another miracle on ice, snowy owls and the selfish photographer, jumping through hoops for jobs, and thekilling of the Wisconsin labor union. Read more →

Sports

For enthusiasm, Hendricks should be Gymnasticstown USA

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2014, 1:59 PM Feb 23, 2014
2

Nothing against you personally, Warroad, but you’re not the only city in Minnesota with a little hometown pride when it comes to athletes in competition. You just get all the attention. In the tiny city of Hendricks yesterday, population about 700, about 80 people turned out at The Local, a restaurant in town, to watch Read more →

Sports

America likes a winner, turns its back on hockey women quickly

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2014, 9:09 AM Feb 22, 2014
5

“It’s not unsporting for athletes to cry when they come up short. But it is unsporting to chastise them for it.”
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Five by 8

Stop working. Watch hockey (5×8 – 2/21/14)

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 21, 2014, 7:43 AM Feb 21, 2014
18

Why it’s good for your workplace to watch hockey today, why newspeople shouldn’t explain editorial decisions to the government, why don’t you move to the back of the bus, the art of shoveling the roof, and why is there homelessness? Read more →

Sports

Like it or not, the Kevin Love watch is underway for Timberwolves, NBA

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 19, 2014, 1:34 PM Feb 19, 2014
15

The timing of the NBA trade deadline and the Kevin Love rumors couldn’t be worse for the Timberwolves. Read more →

Sports

For Olympic spirit, Canada takes home the gold

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 11, 2014, 1:20 PM Feb 11, 2014
2

The Canadians show us that the Olympics can be a place of dignity and goodwill. Read more →

Sports

Psst, hey, buddy! Got a Metrodome picture?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 11, 2014, 12:45 PM Feb 11, 2014
3

The guy leading the VIkings stadium construction has been tweeting cool pictures of the Metrodome destruction. He says the team and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Commission have asked him to stop. Read more →

Sports

Olympic media coverage can be short-attention-span theater

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 11, 2014, 11:55 AM Feb 11, 2014
2

People on the Canadian border can access CBC coverage, which is much more robust — almost three times the number of hours of coverage as the U.S. side. Read more →

Sports

Behind the scenes of Michael Sams’ story

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 10, 2014, 3:34 PM Feb 10, 2014
1

It turns out that if you might be drafted in the NFL, you don’t just call up a reporter and say you’re gay. There’s a little more information about the lengths to which his agents had to go in an article on Outsports.com. Among the nuggets: Former Viking Chris Kluwe, currently embroiled in a legal Read more →

Sports

The Arrowhead 135 in his own words

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 4, 2014, 2:35 PM Feb 4, 2014
5

Even a week later we still wonder why on earth people would want to bike (or hike or ski) 135 miles across northern Minnesota in the dead of winter. Read more →

Sports

The closest Minnesota has ever gotten to a Super Bowl trophy

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 3, 2014, 4:34 PM Feb 3, 2014
4

What are the odds that a day after winning a Super Bowl, the Super Bowl trophy would arrive back in Minnesota? It happened today. The Delta charter for the Seattle Seahawks, on their way home after yesterday’s game, diverted to Minnesota reportedly because of the need for a change of pilots and crew under FAA Read more →

Sports

The Metrodome as it shouldn’t be remembered

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 31, 2014, 2:56 PM Jan 31, 2014
9

From the day we moved here in 1992, I never developed the hatred of the Metrodome that a lot of area sports fans did. So you’ll have to forgive me if I find that some of the pictures showing up on Twitter today some with a heaping helping of melancholy. Read more →

Five by 8 · Sports · Weather

Tearing down skyways, canceling school, and the drone war of Lake Mille Lacs (5×8 – 1/31/14)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 31, 2014, 7:06 AM Jan 31, 2014
15

Should the skyways of Nicollet Mall be destroyed, what does it take to cancel school around here (and elsewhere), the commercial drone war has already started, Rod Carew’s mission, and the growing legend of Derrick Coleman. Read more →

Sports

Kobe chases ‘marketing dreams’

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2014, 1:42 PM Jan 17, 2014
0

What do you do when you’re an NBA star, are on the road, and have a day off? You go to college. Or, you do if you’re Kobe Bryant. The Los Angeles Lakers star, who’s injured but accompanying his team on the road anyway, dropped in on a marketing class at Boston College last night, Read more →

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