The chances are pretty good that few kids playing high school football in Minnesota have had the kind of life Dominic Leu has had.
The Barnesville, Minn., defensive end’s story, fantastically told in the Fargo Forum today, renews an old reflection and question: Why is it some kids survive the very worst life can throw at you and others do not? Read more →
Much has been written during and since the World Series about baseball’s victories and their connection to people who are now gone — usually old-timers… grandfathers, fathers etc.
But only Anthony Castrovince, a writer for MLB.com, has written about a different twist. Baseball’s connection to a child who was never born. Read more →
It’s quite a parade and party going on this afternoon in Chicago, where tens of thousands of fans are celebrating the Cubs’ World Series victory of Wednesday night.
But Budweiser won the week, too, with its well-timed revival of long-dead Harry Caray, the team’s broadcaster from back when they weren’t very good. Read more →
‘We had a pact,’ Wayne Williams said. ‘When the Cubs – not if, when – the Cubs got into the World Series, we would make sure we listen to the games together.’ Read more →
Game 6 of the World Series is tonight and, if you believe the national media, there’ll be a Game 7 tomorrow night. And then, that’ll be it for baseball. It will disappear during the months of darkness, surely no coincidence.
The presidential campaign of 2020, however, will begin a week from today.
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It’s been eight years since the United States elected a black president, and some people are still depicting him in a lynching.
This time, it’s fans at last weekend’s University of Wisconsin game against Nebraska. Read more →
Steve Henneberry, who works at the University of Minnesota, drove to Chicago a few days ago even though he didn’t have a ticket to the World Series and probably couldn’t afford what the scalpers were selling them for.
But Steve had something better, it turned out. He had a long-time friend. Read more →
In this space yesterday we critiqued how one news organization chose to cover a World Series without offering a proper alternative.
Here’s the proper alternative. Read more →
In the temples of baseball — the old stadiums full of tradition — it can be a fulltime job keeping fans from spreading the ashes of the dearly departed. Read more →
Sam Cook of the Duluth News Tribune, who has a way of putting his couch-anchored readers out in the woods, asks in his column today, ‘Do you want to know how the hunting has been this fall?’ Read more →
When reporters parachute in to provide sports coverage to an audience which hates sports, you get the kind of story NPR provided today in a blast against the fans of the Cleveland Indians. Read more →
The last time the people of Edina knew what it was like not to win the girl’s state tennis tournament, there was a Clinton in the White House, the Dow was breaking through 6,000, Princess Diana and Prince Charles were still married, and the DVD player had just been introduced. Read more →
Jim Schlegel, the 97-year-old veteran of Pearl Harbor whose daughter wanted him to see one more Chicago Cubs World Series game, is going to see one more Chicago Cubs World Series game. Read more →
Today’s must-read item comes from Mara Gottfried at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, who tells the story of Ali Bility, a 17-year-old who was in the starting lineup last night when Como Park’s football squad took the field.
Suffering from depression, Bility had attempted suicide last winter. Read more →
If Chicago can’t rally around a 97-year old man who survived Pearl Harbor, there’s something wrong. All you have to do, Chicago, is give up your tickets to a Cubs World Series game. Read more →
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