Bob CollinsTim Cernohous collapsed near the end of the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon in Duluth on Saturday morning. When rescuers rushed to him, he had no pulse. But he still had a goal to finish the race. Read more →
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The Stanley Cup has had a busy week since the Pittsburgh Penguins won it — again — a week ago.
Everyone on the team gets to spend a day with it. It goes boating, and hits a few bars, maybe a school or two.
Penguins equipment manager Danny Kroll had a more worthwhile trip for it. Read more →
The Savannah Bananas slogan is ‘We Make Baseball Fun’ and ‘Fans First. Entertainment Always.’
You know how it is for some minor league teams that don’t consider a baseball game to be a church service, right? Read more →
The blimp belonged to the Air Sign Company, an aerial advertising company. Read more →
Chris Singleton, the centerfielder for Charleston Southern University batted .276 with four homers this season. Those aren’t exactly eye-popping numbers for an outfielder. But Singleton has other things to focus on, too. He has to care for his younger siblings, Camryn and Caleb, because two years ago tomorrow, Dylan Roof executed their mother, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, and eight others in a church in an effort to start a race war. Read more →
A lot of us laughed when an off-season statistics calculation predicted the Minnesota Twins would win nearly 80 games this season, even though the franchise did almost nothing in the off-season to boost their roster, which lost more than 100 games last season.
We were wrong. Read more →
Yes, we’re fully aware that NewsCut has its share of readers who will say, ‘what are these kids learning by intentionally striking out so Braydon Gero, 12, a kid with Down Syndrome can have a happy moment in his last Little League game of the season?’
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Former University of North Dakota hockey player Carter Rowney won a Stanley Cup last night with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Read more →
Never underestimate the power of kids to understand the world better than adults sometimes do. Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League’s John Millea calls our attention to this video from Crookston, where the high school tennis team left for the state tournament. Things like this matters in cities around Minnesota. Read more →
Ryan Strnad isn’t limiting his campaign to the Milwaukee stadium; he thinks sports fans everywhere should pay a little more attention to the working stiffs in the stands. Read more →
Packers cornerback Davon House landed at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport and his connecting flight to Green Bay was canceled. He put a call out to local Packer fans. Read more →
The Ogden (Utah) Raptors have apparently had second thoughts about its ‘Hourglass Appreciation Night’, a promotion that offended everyone but the knucklehead who conceived it. Read more →
Mili Hernandez is 8 years old, loves soccer, has short hair and looks like a boy, so she and her team were kicked out of a girls soccer tournament in Nebraska on Sunday.
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In La Crosse on Saturday, Abbey Zastrow finished last in the 400-meter dash and the 200-meter dash at the WIAA Division 2 girls state track and field meet at UW-La Crosse. She blew a hamstring with 50 meters to go in the 400 and had to walk to the finish line. Read more →