Bob Collins
The Paralympics games begin in London in a few days. Minnesota has a fair number of athletes. Here are some of them.
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The great Twin Cities bicycle helmet debate of 2012 has had me poking around for alternatives to bike helmets. Today, I stumbled upon this. It’s a solution that isn’t a helmet at all.
Pesky dies a jock
Who’s the more impressive Olympian: the one who won a gold but is too fragile to be distracted by life, or the one who faces the realities of life head-on and competes anyway?
Paul TostoAmericans have ranted for decades about tape delays and overseas Olympics. We want to see stuff as it happens. But the network that pays a king’s ransom for the broadcast rights makes its money showing the high demand events during American prime time. Network wins. That used to be the end of the discussion. Not Read more →
David Cazares
By Molly Bloom MPR News Opening ceremonies for the the 2012 Summer Olympics take place today in London, and here at MPR News we’re going to be closely following the Minnesotans competing in the Olympics — and that means anyone with a connection (even a slight one) to the Gopher State. So if you want Read more →
By funny, I mean “Ha, Ha” funny. College athletics are very tense these days. But it’s OK to laugh at a new video from Notre Dame athletics that is pleading with fans to stop recruiting players online. Apparently, some Irish fans feel so much a part of the team that they also feel one with Read more →
Anyone who’s ever watched politicians get questions they didn’t have answers for had to know that Gov. Mark Dayton was heading for the rocks almost immediately after he got a question on MPR’s Daily Circuit the other day about a subject that has little to do with politics or policy.
Adam Kraemers of Denver and Chase Higgins of Minneapolis could be forgiven if the idea hatched at the Metrodome years ago seemed like a better idea at the time than in the execution this summer.
Championship mini-golf