SANTA CLARA, CA— Sooner or later you meet your match, somebody you just can’t beat. For the Twins, it’s the Yankees; for Michigan, it’s Ohio State; for Buffalo, it’s the Super Bowl. For the Vikings, […]
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26-20 in OT! NEW ORLEANS— In New Orleans during the tragedy and flooding of Hurricane Katrina, bodies were said to be floating around because the cemeteries can’t put the dead six feet underground. Being so […]
Read More...Last column of the year for 2019 and first for 2020 and a new decade. It’s been a good year, not a great year, for the Vikings and Twins. Both reached the playoffs. The Wild […]
Read More...What a year for Tiger Woods! He wins the Masters in April, his 15th career Major victory,
Read More...The 2019-20 College Football Playoff has its own Final Four that’s not quite like basketball’s Final Four, but it’s close. Those who vote on the College Football Playoff have decided on LSU, Ohio State, Clemson […]
Read More...When you play the game of professional football, you better be committed. It starts with playing a full 60 minutes, not 45 or 55 or as the Vikings did on Monday Night Football against Seattle, […]
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Happy days are here again It’s been a long time — can you say 1905? It’s a matter of time because time suddenly appears to be standing still.
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Since 1961 the Vikings have captured the hearts and minds of fans across the state of Minnesota. Since they were born in the NFL, the Vikings slowly but surely have risen to become the most […]
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Long before the Vikings and the NFL arrived in Minneapolis in 1961, I’m told this town belonged to the Gophers.
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He did it, and in my lifetime I saw him do it. For 23 years Tiger Woods has pursued the number 18, the number of Major Golf Championships won by Jack Nicklaus. Woods is still […]
Read More... October 22: another late start to the World Series in the year of the home run, 6,766—that’s 600 more homers hit this year than in any year before. It was also a record year for […]
Read More...The United States and the National Basketball Association learned a valuable lesson recently: Be careful what you tweet.
Read More...History will not be kind to the 2019 Minnesota Twins. Not after going out like they did. The evil empire did it again with the world watching—10-4, 8-2, 5-1, a three-game sweep by the New […]
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You are looking live at one of the best teams in baseball, the 2019 American League Central Division champs and home-run leaders,
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In August before the start of the 2019 NFL 100 regular season, the popular choice by many gamblers by a margin of 9-1 was the Chicago Bears to win the Super Bowl; then the Cleveland […]
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