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St. Paul Jewish Community Center hoopsters persevere at JCC Maccabi Games in Houston

By Staff, American Jewish World

Among the 1,400 Jewish teens gathered last week in Houston, Texas, for the MORE »

International teams converge here for RBI World Series — Media coverage of play leaves much to be desired

By Charles Hallman, Another View

The ever-present debate on why today’s Black youth aren’t playing baseball was put on hold, at least for a few days, at the 2012 Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) World Series, hosted by the Minnesota Twins last week.

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No more skyways, especially at new stadium

By Sam Rockwell, Minnesota 2020

My last two posts discussed several Vikings-stadium-area development issues (here and here). I’ll wrap up this string of posts with another suggestion for the city: do not build skyways near the new stadium.

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Title IX: It's about a lot more than sports

By Charles Hallman, Another View

Whenever Title IX is discussed, at least two opposing camps face off: Either “It killed men’s college sports” or “It just isn’t needed anymore” takes center stage. Although the 40-year federal law is mainly seen as an athletic law, it’s more than just sports according to U.S.

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Somali Olympians get Minnesota support

By Terry Carter, KFAI Radio

With the Olympics underway in London we’re hearing a lot about the very strong Team USA and the other major nations counting up their gold medals.

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This Month In Jewish (TMIJ): From Clinton and Romney in Israel, to an Olympic moment of silence

By Bradley Machov, TC Jewfolk

Hey kids, welcome to This Month In Jewish: a monthly installment for TC Jewfolk where we recap all the important (and some unimportant) stories you may have seen this past month.

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The war for J4—and why there are no winners in Minnesota Hmong community

By Wameng Moua, Hmong Today

Photo by Jake Belluci (Creative Commons)

The flyers were posted early in March 2012. It announced that there would be a Hmong sports festival held during the Fourth of July weekend—and as usual the event was hosted by Lao Family.

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University of Minnesota Regents approve beer and wine sales, and finalize administrative leave policies, a U-wide tech upgrade and new staff appointments

By Emma Nelson, The Minnesota Daily

Beginning this fall, University of Minnesota fans will be able to purchase beer and wine at Gopher sporting events.

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Minnesota Cameroon community kicks off soccer tournament

By Frederick Ndip, Mshale

Veteran FC is one of the Cameroon community teams participating in this year's MINCAM Mini Soccer Tournament. On the left (in hat) is Dr. Robert Tamukong, the president of the Minnesota Cameroon Community.

The Minnesota Cameroon Community (MINCAM) last June 16, 2012 launched the MINCAM Mini Soccer Tournament.

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Minnesota Twins: Get to know them? We're trying!

By Jean Gabler, The Knothole View

The Twins are off to a rocky start again this season, continuing the level of performance they exhibited last year. The starting pitching appears to be the problem: they started the season short one starter because Scott Baker’s injury prevented him from ever making it out of the spring season, and all four of the other starting pitchers have already had a stint in the bullpen or on the disabled list.

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