Sports

Next time you’re at Target Field for a game, consider buying a healthier alternative to your typical deep fried ballpark fare. Roots for the Home Team dishes up salads grown in community gardens across the Twin Cities. The program invites youth farmers from Urban Roots, Youth Farm and EMERGE community gardens to sell the salads during weekend home games.

The vision in my mind when I imagined a press preview of Walker on the Green, an artist-design miniature golf course at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, was that of all of the members of the press would stand on the sidelines as onlookers while actual players proficient in the sport of golf competed, offering examples of how each hole was artistically unique and creatively constructed. It didn’t occur to me for even a second that I myself would spend the entire day playing mini-golf, but that’s what happened. New experiences teach us new and valuable lessons, and since golfing was very new to me (and in some ways still is), I thought I’d briefly share with you five things I learned while golfing at the Walker.

Everyone else on the team has escaped to the locker room after the clock signals an official end to practice. Only one player remains, running sprints across the National Sports Center turf and practicing shooting drills until he’s bent over in exhaustion.

The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority has unveiled its design for a new Vikings stadium in downtown Minneapolis.