Bob CollinsBecause he has Down Syndrome, Alec Penney, of South Fargo, doesn’t get to play much on the Fargo South High School baseball team. He’s never gotten a chance to hit. Read more →
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It’s not enough to want to volunteer to represent Minnesota as a volunteer during Super Bowl Week. You’ll have to surrender some dignity first. Read more →
Shannon Miller, who is openly gay, said her dismissal was discrimination at the the university was wrong to characterize it as a financial decision. But in court documents, the university says portraying the termination as financially motivated was Miller’s idea. Read more →
There’s another indication that the world of sports is getting over its fear of a hijab. Read more →
This photo from the New York Times raced around social media yesterday. Why? Because it told a story people wanted to believe and we’re long past the day when news consumers questioned what they want to believe. Read more →
Here’s your daily dose of sweetness:
Kolt Kyler, 9, of Pierceton, Indiana, is apparently a pretty big Chicago Cubs fan and also a pretty good worker on the family farm. Read more →
Sad news, St. Paul baseball fans. We’ve missed out on our chance to pick up some slick jerseys worn by the St. Paul Gutteral Uff Da’s.
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No runner in the Boston Marathon will ever again wear number 261. It has now been retired in honor of the woman who once wore it, and ushered in the era of women’s running.
Changing a sports team’s logo is a pretty simple task. All it takes is a bucketload of money, as the Minnesota Timberwolves showed last night as part of the team’s plan to wipe away the stench of bad basketball.
Wiping away the stench of racism, however, continues to befuddle the sports world and the people who run the leagues, particularly baseball and football. Read more →
When the Harlem Globetrotters come into a town, where do they head to shoot their promotional video? If you’re ‘Zeus,’ a football stadium, of course. Read more →
The Minnesota Twins last season lost 103 games, often played in a half-empty stadium, and made a ton of cash. Read more →
Some NBA cities are getting all jazzed up for the excitement of the NBA playoffs.
And then there’s Minneapolis, where the local team has missed the playoffs for a 13th consecutive year. Read more →
Last week, all 12 schools in the Big Ten sent teams to the Big Ten Network ‘League of Legends’ tournament, thanks to scholarships provided by the company that makes the game.
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A Lakeville South high school teen has successfully tested a rule that had prevented her from trying out for the boy’s tennis team. Read more →
It is opening day in the baseball season for the local nine, a day which reveals that hope does not spring eternal in the human breast after all. The Twins will be a terrible team again after losing 103 games last year and not doing much in the off-season.
But it’s still baseball, the grass is still green, and it’s a game in which you don’t forget people from your past. Read more →