Bob CollinsThe extent to which the adults were shamefully using kids to make their point in a beef at last February’s Minnesota state high school dance tournament seems underscored by a decision by the Minnesota State High School League yesterday to award medals anyway to the girls who refused them. They had previously been disqualified because of their display.
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Adrian Peterson, who has refused to attend optional Minnesota Vikings practices in an ongoing contract dispute, is again using Twitter to pour gas on a fire. Read more →
While waiting for the World Series (with the Twins) to get underway, there’s not much for sports fans in the Twin Cities to do today — an off day for the local entry in the American League.
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In Fargo, a series of police shootings all seemed to ‘rim out’. Read more →
Four years ago, Chris Norton was paralyzed while playing football at Luther College in Decorah. He was given only a 3 percent chance of ever feeling anything below his waist again, let alone walking.
But he vowed to walk on stage when it came time to get his diploma. Read more →
With any luck, this is the story people will tell about Randy Moss instead of that one about the parking enforcement officer in Minneapolis. Read more →
Gymnastics gives kids coordination , confidence, and strength.
It can do wonders for a town, too.
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Today’s sports news comes from the Department of Lipstick on a Pig.
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The New England Patriots are pushing back — and hard — against the independent investigation of whether and how footballs used by the team in last season’s AFC Championship Game were deflated. Read more →
Have we seen the last of Janel McCarville, the Stevens Point, Wis., native who starred at the University of Minnesota and eventually made her way home to the Minnesota Lynx? Read more →
The New England Patriots said science proves they didn’t deflate footballs during the AFC Championship game. As it turns out, science comes close to proving they did. Read more →
Washington state tops the list with a 66.2 score. Minnesota is at 62.7 with some breathing room between it and Delaware (54.8). But upstarts are coming up on our left. Read more →
Admittedly, if I weren’t a New England Patriots fan, I’d be pretty giddy about the NFL’s sudden interest in the integrity of the league, which you’ve probably heard resulted in a big penalty against the team today for domestic assault child abuse performance enhancing drugs removing air from a football. But I understand why the Read more →
It’s called bubble soccer and it’s just like real soccer except there’s no goalies, there’s a fair amount of scoring, and players play inside bubbles. Oh, and people don’t take it so seriously. Read more →
Just as baseball is making a comeback in Minnesota, we’ve got another op-ed today mourning its decline.
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