Bob CollinsEdina loves its sports success and there aren’t too many cities with more of it.
But now it’s pushing the traveling youth teams to a younger age — fourth grade. Is it too much, the Star Tribune’s Mike Kaszuba asks in his story today?
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The boosters in Minneapolis who charmed the NFL into awarding the 2018 Super Bowl to the city say the game will bring a boost to the city’s image that you can’t buy.
But it hasn’t happened that way for Glendale, Arizona, the host city of this year’s Super Bowl. Read more →
Say what you will about the number of future vegetables professional football is making, this year’s NFL postseason has done wonders for the physical and social sciences. Read more →
I admit I’m trolling you here. I apologize in advance. Read more →
But most of us never had to face what many high school rivalries in greater Minnesota have to face — becoming one with the hated rival.
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No matter what kind of day you have at work today, at least it’s not going to be as bad as the one the Seattle Seahawks had in last night’s Super Bowl, when they elected to pass the ball for the win rather than just give it to automatic-touchdown running back Marshawn Lynch. Read more →
Former Minnesota Timberwolves star Kevin returns to the state he spurned tomorrow night when the Cleveland Cavaliers make their one and only appearance at Target Center.
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Soon-to-be-ousted University of Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey coach Shannon Miller is doubling down on her suggestion that her contract isn’t being renewed partly because she’s gay.
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Are women giving up swimming because they’re ashamed of their bodies?
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Minneapolis was a lab rat for a radar system to detect drones/quadcopters at last year’s All Star Game, the New York Times has revealed today. Read more →
You’ve got to give the Minnesota Timberwolves marketing team credit. In the face of a nearly unwatchable product, they’re still plugging away trying to create something resembling excitement.
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Looking for the racists at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City? They’re up in the luxury boxes. Read more →
Critics of soon-to-be-presidential-candidate Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin have certainly noticed the message he sent this week about what’s important in his state: professional sports, specifically an NBA franchise. Read more →
The end is nigh for drivers trying to avoid westbound traffic on I-94 in Minneapolis, the Star Tribune reports.
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If there’s one thing people don’t much care for, it’s the media getting a little too full of themselves.
Saint Paul Pioneer Press writer Brian Murphy might have found that out when he weighed in Marshawn Lynch’s one-answer-for-every-question performance at Super Bowl media day. Read more →