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Minnesota Set For Kevin Garnett's Return to Target Center
Back in March, I lived my dream of booing Torii Hunter at the Metrodome without being pummeled by the crowd. Fresh off his seventh consecutive Gold Glove, Hunter rode off to the sunny streets of LA with a five year, $90 million dollar deal...
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Rick Reilly: A Tribute To The Great One
“Of all the people I’d like to throw through a plate-glass window, Rick wouldn’t be one of them. -Charles Barkley This is how the foreword in Rick Reilly’s ‘The Life of Reilly’ ends...
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Bye Bye Brad Childress
Last week, the Minnesota Vikings beat the Green Bay Packers 28-27. If you didn't watch the game, you would think that either the Vikings had a great comeback or the Packers didn't quite come close enough...
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Red Hot Lakers Have LA on Fire
After blazing to a 7-0 start in the competitive Western Conference, the Los Angeles Lakers has set the city ablaze...literally. This morning, wild fires blazed only 23 miles from downtown LA with help from a 90 degree temp and winds as high as 80 mph...
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Jason Giambi: Hot Stove Report
Ever since his steroid allegations, Jason Giambi hasn't been in the national spotlight. In 2008, he hit a quiet .247 with 32 HRs and 96 RBIs. Giambi played first base/DH for the Yankees since joining the team in 2002...
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Brad Radke: Retired But Not Forgotten
There are some very ill memories for the Twins between 1993 and 2000. Kirby Puckett's glaucoma, the Chuck Knoblauch divorce, the franchise almost moving to Durham, and never winning more than ...
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Why No One Should Feel Sorry for Boston Anymore
Oct. 27, 2004. The day the whining from the East Coast should have stopped. The Boston Red Sox had finally won their first championship in 86 years. It was understandable at the time why the world, minus residents of New York, were happy for Boston...
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A History Of African-American Athletes
Eighty years ago, 100 white men chasing a black man through a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today, it is called the PGA Tour. All the great golfers of the past including Nickalus, Snead, Hogan, Sarazen, and Palmer were all white...
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Does Kurt Warner Belong in The Hall of Fame?
· 24,000 passing yards · 164 TDs · 92.3 Passer Rating (3rd all-time) · 65% completion percentage (2nd all-time) · 3 seasons with a passer rating over 101...
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Why Edge Should Have Stayed in Indy
Why would anybody in their right minds leave what Edgerrin James had? James was the fourth overall selection in the 1999 NFL Draft, taken by the Indianapolis Colts...
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Why I Hate Fantasy Football
I was so close. Battling the remaining undefeated team in my ESPN Fantasy Football league. And I should have won. This is my first time playing Fantasy Football, and I really had no idea what to expect...
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Cubs/ChiSox World Series Put on Hold
Baseball fans in the state of Illinois have been waiting for this particular post season for a long time. The north side of Chicago has been waiting for over 100 years for an October Cubbies parade...
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More Hated in Minnesota: Pierzynski vs. Knoblauch
There have been many discussions amongst Twins fans debating the greatest player to ever don a Twins uniform. Puckett? Carew? Killebrew? But there is a more heated discussion that arises amongst the fans, and that is deciding who is the most hated...
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This Just In: Aaron Rodgers, Matt Cassel Are Mortal
All good things must come to an end, and that is exactly what happened to the New England Patriots on Sunday. Filling in for the injured Tom Brady and starting his second game since high school, ...
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Mirror, Mirror: Are The Minnesota Vikings This Year's New York Giants?
The Vikings are 0-2. After losing dramatically to the Packers on MNF, and giving up 18 unanswered points to the three-legged Colts, most people have given up on the Minnesota Vikings...
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The Madden Curse: A History
He’s broken records, shattered expectations, and wreaked havoc in the NFC North for the past 15 years. So if anyone is going to break the Madden Cover Curse, it is Brett Favre...
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Them's Fightin' Words: Week in Review
Usually, fireworks happen in the first week in July. This year, they happened over the last week. Favre vs. Mark Murphy Favre, perhaps the greatest quarterback of all time, is coming out of retirement...
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T
“And the hero from last night’s homerun derby, Josh Hamilton.” -Joe Buck, while introducing the center fielders for the 2008 All-Star Game If you had not watched ...
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What's Wrong With Wade?
At the 2008 All-Star Game in New York, baseball dusted off and polished up the greatest living baseball players in history, putting together the greatest collection of talent on one field at one time...
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Learning to Cope with Kevin McHale
Minnesota's Mr. Basketball, 1976 Second in career points and rebounds at the University of Minnesota A first round draft pick, third overall All-Rookie First Team A seven-time NBA All-Star ...
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AL All-Stars: Who Will Start, and Who Deserves To?
I am ready for the agony. Are you? The All-Star Game is at Yankee Stadium...so it will be like going to any other Yankee game...
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Kevin Garnett to Send NBA Finals Memorabilia to Minnesota
After winning its 17th NBA title, the unruly crowd in Boston had one thing to tell the world: It wasn't "BEAT L.A." or "SE-VEN-TEEN!" The crowd began to chant "THANK YOU 'SOTA!" During the ...
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My Fiancee the Sports Fan
This week started pretty normal for me. I planned on putting 40 hours in at the nursing home, I lost my weekly round of mini-golf by five strokes, our softball team lost last night, 26-24, after ...
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My Ultimate Sacrifice: Reversing the Curse
October 20th, 2004.Perhaps the greatest day for Yankee haters. The day that Boston reversed the curse, beating the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the ALCS, coming back from an 3-games-to-0 deficit, ...
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My Unlucky Race
May 3rd, 2008.4:45 pm CT.There was a different smell in the air today. The faint scent of Seabond and urine was overrun by the scent of excitement. The squeaking walkers seemed to me moving faster, and the place felt less dismal...


