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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Review: A Minnesota Kid

By Joe Butwin, Free Speech Zone

Review: A Minnesota Kid: In Search of Heroes and Ghosts by David Butwin

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Minneapolis to explore bid for 2024 Olympic games

By Kia Farhang, The Minnesota Daily

Olympic athletes may one day compete in Minneapolis.

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Stereotypes at play in neglect of girls' coaching achievements

By Charles Hallman, Another View

DeLaSalle Girls’ Basketball Coach Faith Johnson-Patterson will receive the Special Merit Award at the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda in St. Paul on Feb. 6 at the 2013 Minnesota National Girls and Women in Sports Day ceremony.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Farview Hmong Soccer Players Help Sanneh Foundation at Gala 4 Goals Fundraiser

By Jay Clark, Free Speech Zone
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Farview soccer players with Tony Sanneh, at Gala 4 Goals fundraiser

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Minnesota atheletes report recovery from ACL injuries is quicker now, but still challenging

By Charles Hallman, Another View

Modern medicine has improved so much in recent years that an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury these days isn’t career-ending for an athlete, but rather a temporary setback.

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Minneapolis: Skating, sledding and a warm fire at Longfellow's Fire and Ice Festival

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

Friday night was the Fire & Ice Festival at Longfellow Park. While there weren’t quite as many people out as there were at last week’s Dog Days of Winter Celebration, seats around the campfire were still in high demand.

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THEATER REVIEW | "Johnny Baseball" hits a home run at Park Square Theatre

By Jean Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Courtesy Park Square Theatre

Johnny Baseball, currently playing at Park Square Theatre, tells the story of a fictional baseball player named Johnny O’Brien playing for the very real Boston Red Sox in the year 1919. It tells the story of  the “curse” that supposedly prevented the Red Sox from winning a national baseball championship for 86 years.

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Icy fun at Hiawatha School Park

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

A mom helps her daughter put on skates before they head out to the ice.

Lots of families were out enjoying the ice on Friday night during the Dog Days of Winter event at Hiawatha School Park. The mild winter night was punctuated with lots of laughter and sounds of kids having fun ice skating. Besides ice skating, kids and their parents were busy roasting marshmallows over a campfire and making marshmallow crafts. The park had popcorn, hot dogs, and other treats. What a fun night to be out with friends enjoying the best of winter!

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The report from Mount Como

By Lisa Steinmann, Word Canoe

For five weeks every winter I teach in our city parks and rec department’s Alpine ski program. Every winter, Como Park’s golf course is turned into a winter wonderland with cross country skiers and sledders occupying the lowland and skiers and snowboarders claiming 90 vertical feet of the steepest hill. We run a rope tow up both sides of it and run two snowmaking fans to keep it padded and a piston bully to groom it into shape. Each season we see hundreds of students come through our program, all ages. Mount Como is perfect for beginners and we see many families, many children in the four- to twelve-year-old age range.

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'You can play': Focus on LGBT athletes at this weekend's PFLAG conference

By Dale Connelly, KFAI Radio

The second annual PFLAG conference, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Persons, is scheduled for Friday, January 18 at Hamline University in St. Paul. The focus this time is on bullying in schools, with a special emphasis on school athletics.

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