New Orleans Notebook: The end Bob Collins January 25, 2010, 3:11 AM Jan 25, 2010 1 Pulling the blog plug on the Vikings’ day in New Orleans. Read more →
New Orleans Notebook: The way we lose Bob Collins January 24, 2010, 9:58 PM Jan 24, 2010 5 This is what it looks like when you’re a loser in the NFC Championship Game. You’re the B-squad Read more →
Sports Tailgate Tales: Feeling it! Bob Collins January 24, 2010, 2:51 PM Jan 24, 2010 6 If the fans of the New Orleans Saints ever come to Minnesota for an NFC championship game, people of Minnesota, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Read more →
Sports Tailgate Tales: Favrepalooza Bob Collins January 24, 2010, 10:36 AM Jan 24, 2010 1 Some Vikings say Brett Favre is the best medicine for Minnesota. Read more →
A Minnesota gift to New Orleans Bob Collins January 23, 2010, 11:13 PM Jan 23, 2010 1 Why Frank Vardeman of St. Paul might be rooting for the Saints on Sunday. Read more →
Stockholm syndrome in New Orleans Bob Collins January 23, 2010, 3:26 PM Jan 23, 2010 Why Minnesota will never have the love affair with its NFL football team that New Orleans has with the Saints. Read more →
New Orleans Notebook: Bring in dat noise Bob Collins January 23, 2010, 10:02 AM Jan 23, 2010 2 It’s unlikey enough practice will prepare the Vikings for the Superdome’s famous noise. Read more →
New Orleans Notebook: The Kopaceks Bob Collins January 22, 2010, 6:16 PM Jan 22, 2010 3 Unlike invading Vikings of old, Ted and Cindy Kopacek of Maple Grove, entered hostile territory with smiles on their face. Read more →
Wrenshall’s lesson plan: perseverance Bob Collins January 21, 2010, 8:30 PM Jan 21, 2010 8 At a period when times are tough, we can learn a lot from 11 girls in Wrenshall, Minnesota. Read more →
Scratch another ‘hero’ Bob Collins January 11, 2010, 2:04 PM Jan 11, 2010 1 A baseball player who long avoided the question of performance-enhancing drugs, admits he was on the ‘juice.’ Read more →
An affirmative action deception? Bob Collins January 9, 2010, 9:24 AM Jan 9, 2010 2 A rule to increase the number of African American coaches in the NFL has trivialized some of them in the process. Read more →
Vikings opponents announced Bob Collins January 4, 2010, 7:17 PM Jan 4, 2010 3 It’s never too early to think about next season. Read more →
At the ballpark Bob Collins January 4, 2010, 12:38 PM Jan 4, 2010 9 Outdoor baseball will require us to get back into the habit of checking the forecast before deciding whether to take in the game. Read more →
A stadium scrapbook Bob Collins December 17, 2009, 1:23 PM Dec 17, 2009 12 The Vikings add more sketches to the scrapbook of stadium proposals past. Read more →
What does a blowout teach us? Bob Collins December 11, 2009, 4:02 PM Dec 11, 2009 2 Can kids learn something from a 65-0 loss in basketball? If so, what is it? Read more →