Bob CollinsThe walk in baseball is running out of steam. For debatable reasons, fewer batters are drawing walks this year, continuing a trend, while the number of strikeouts is soaring, according to CNBC. A lot of baseball fans focus on strikeouts. But one expert — Ed Feng –offers a novel analysis. “In Moneyball, we learned about Read more →
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Archives for August 2015
For just a moment — but only a moment — fans of Target might have thought the buttoned-down, risk averse, bunker mentality of Target had loosened up enough to tell opponents what they can do with… just about everything. Read more →
It’s fair time in the Midwest. And we need more weird. Read more →
In Cleveland last night, the twin four-year-old daughters of player Mike Aviles threw out the first pitch in the Indians’ game against the Yankees.
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You know who the daily heroes are in this country who never get recognition? School bus drivers.
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What’s going on here? First, Sesame Street jettisons PBS. And now the Harlem Globetrotters are cutting ties with the Washington Generals. ESPN reports the Globetrotters are ending their relationship with the Generals, their nightly opponents in their act. That’s 63 years of tradition gone right there. “I don’t know exactly how many times we lost, Read more →
The numbers are in from Mankato’s large air show in June and they’re not particularly good, even though it attracted the Air Force Thunderbirds as the signature act. Read more →
A statement from the University of Minnesota today carries a disturbing piece of information about the actions of the local news media. Read more →
MPR’s Dan Gunderson today has a neat story about bears in Minnesota not being happy when drones appear.
Their heart rate spiked until the drones left, proving that the bears are stressed out about drones.
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Jane Rosenberg ‘s assignment was to sketch the courtroom while Patriots quarterback Tom Brady complained about being suspended for cheating. Twitter misfits didn’t like how she drew Brady. Read more →
If all foamy ideas come from Wisconsin — and apparently they do — then beer gardens in public parks will head this way someday.
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They don’t make newspaper people like Marilyn Hagerty anymore. The Grand Forks, N.D., columnist knows how to tell the story of the soul of the communities she covers. Read more →
A day after PBS announced it would trim Sesame Street to a half hour, Sesame Workshop and HBO delivered a bombshell today — Sesame Street will move to HBO. Read more →
Contrary to predictions, many companies did not eliminate jobs with the advent of ObamaCare, the Affordable Health Care Act. Read more →
Rep. Pat Garofalo has tweeted his way into another controversy. Read more →