I had vowed this year that I would not succumb to the allure of the Minnesota State High School Tournament hockey-hair team that John King puts together every year.
Like the Macarena, as soon as the media became obsessed with the thing, it was past time to move on.
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Life is good — so far — at the venerable Minnesota high school hockey tournament. The private schools are getting knocked off — should’ve spent less time working on the hair, perhaps — and the Moorhead Spuds — the greatest team name in all of sports — are moving on. Read more →
Avert your eyes, golf purists. The PGA is going to allow its golfers to wear shorts, it was announced this week.
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It’s not as if someone didn’t tell you that the new Vikings stadium would be a bird killer. Let’s be honest: People didn’t care if it would. Read more →
There was am awfully sweet moment before the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City Falcons vs. the Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg Saints girls’ basketball game last night, a combination of sportsmanship and patriotism. Read more →
Where on earth would high school kids playing hockey learn that brawling on the ice is acceptable behavior for youth sports?
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The country had been reeling since Vietnam, inflation was killing paychecks, and nuclear war with the Soviet Union seemed inevitable. Read more →
Imani Boyette, a center for the Chicago Sky of the WNBA, was a Candice Wiggins fan when she was growing up, but she is not at all happy with Wiggins’ assertion that she was bullied in her time in the league because she’s straight. Read more →
The first big race of the season is set for Sunday — the Daytona 500 — and there’s a stench of a sport’s death mixing with that of burning rubber. Read more →
If ever there was an indicator that the Upper Midwest has lost its weather mojo, it’s this: the American Birkebeiner — the iconic northern Wisconsin cross country ski race — is likely to be a foot race this year. Read more →
This is Wayne Shaw, who was caught eating a meat pie on the sideline during the match between Sutton United and Arsenal on Monday night.
Scandalous, indeed! Read more →
In an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, Candace Wiggins says she retired abruptly because she found the WNBA “depressing.” Read more →
Rob Manfred said the sport doesn’t ‘need to be fixed,’ but focus groups have told him all the dead-ball time is turning them off.
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The way the bigshots in baseball are trying to speed up the game, you’d think that people were forced at gunpoint to watch it.
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There are two girls on the co-ed squad and when the CYO found out, it said the girls played ‘illegally.’
When the kids took the floor against the lineup from St. Bartholomew the Apostle, the refs were told not to work the game. No girls! Read more →
Bob Collins