Sports

Loan forgiveness for the Xcel Energy Center

By staff, Session Daily
City officials in St.MORE »

Major League Baseball: Do the media have more power than the fans?

by Jean Gabler | March 15, 2009 • I am watching the Twins-Yankees game on Channel 29 as I write this. I think it is nice that the Twins broadcast their Sunday games on local (non-cable) TV. The Twins are currently losing to the Yankees 5-1 in the ninth. It is harder to come back in a spring training game, as many of the starters are rotated out of the game. Gomez played center field today and has spent much of the game chasing balls to right center and left center and not making catches. The right and left fielders aren’t getting to the balls either.MORE »

Saintly art at the ballpark

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet
Art and baseball may not seem like a match made in heaven, but they will join forces this summer at the St. Paul Saints ballpark.MORE »

School extracurricular activities on the chopping block

By John Fitzgerald, Minnesota 2020

Photo courtesy of Eagan High School

School districts throughout Minnesota will have to cut their budgets this spring no matter what happens with the state's revenue shortfall or the President's economic recovery plan.MORE »

19th century hockey: Flying pucks and lots of "sand"

by Jay Gabler | March 10, 2009
The Holt Archives of American Hockey at the University of New Hampshire has just digitized and made publicly available the complete text of what may be the earliest published guidebook to the sport of hockey as we know it: the 1898 Spalding Ice Hockey and Ice Polo GuideMORE »

Does anyone care about the World Baseball Classic?

by Jean Gabler | March 5, 2009 • It seemed like spring training was rolling along its merry way with players, fans, and the media having a grand time. And then, all at once, it hit a wall.MORE »

Youth sports in the cities

By Scott Russell, TC Daily Planet
In 2003, the Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board (YCB) said the Minneapolis youth sports programs needed a major restructuring.MORE »

Spring training is not just about baseball

by Jean Gabler | March 1, 2009 • After thinking about my last entry, I felt I needed to clarify two things. MORE »

Competition, higher costs for youth sports in Minneapolis

By Scott Russell, TC Daily Planet

Aspiring ball players fielded ground balls as part of the MYBA tryouts. (Photo by Scott Russell)

Paddy Mittag-McNaught, 11, is entering his third year playing for the Minneapolis Youth Baseball Association (MYBA).MORE »
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