As a a Minnesotan in exile, I present the Top 16 Reasons the Republicans are meeting in Saint Paul rather than Minneapolis. If you have any other explanations, go ahead and add them in the comments.
16. St. Paul looks grittier than Minneapolis.
15. You can’t get cream and sugar in your coffee in Minneapolis.
14. Irish Catholic [...]
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Ohio State Football Inc. announced that Jim Tressel will be getting a raise of over $1 million to $3.5 million next year. That was before he went out and hammered the formidable Youngstown State Football Inc. on Saturday, 43-0. Certainly this drubbing will require another raise this week or next.
It was also announced that for [...]
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The Olympics in Beijing has been a great disappointment. No one has collapsed into a coughing fit from the air pollution — all but a certainty from the reports leading up to the opening of what are so quaintly termed “the games.” The American cyclists who arrived in the Beijing Airport wearing face masks seemed [...]
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I read the other day that Wednesday, July 16, is the only day of the year in which there is no major professional sporting event taking place in the United States. That is a fact worth some contemplation, which may lead to some conclusions about overkill and saturation. But instead of going down that road, [...]
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It was a magnificent tennis match. Two evenly matched players, who admired each other’s game, competed as they had done many times before. It turned out to be the best tennis match that each had ever played against the other, and it was on the Centre Court of the All England Club for the Championship [...]
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As the Boston Celtics celebrate a long-awaited championship, we shouldn’t let their present victory suppress the disturbing questions that still linger from Finals past. Once again, the issue of the integrity of the NBA is in question. This should not be particularly surprising to anyone who watches much basketball, and especially NBA basketball.
Tim Donaghy, the [...]
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“Spanning the Globe to bring you the constant variety of sport; the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat; the human drama of athletic competition.”
Each week, ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” opened with the host, Jim McKay, doing this voiceover. McKay died Saturday at age 86. He was the ringmaster for The Olympic Games [...]
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Big Brown’s victory at The Preakness on Saturday has set the stage for a possible Triple Crown winner. At Belmont Park on June 7, and in the three weeks leading up to it, there will be much excitement and speculation in anticipation of Big Brown’s big race. T
en horses have made it to this stage [...]
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This is always a difficult time of year for me. I am never sure which leaves me with a greater numbness of the brain — the NFL draft or grading final exams.
This is a question that will have to be resolved by greater minds than mine, particularly in my current mental state.
The NFL draft is [...]
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Americans may not have realized it before, but Pope Benedict XVI (did the NFL steal this number thing from the Pope?) is a baseball fan. The reason for his U.S. visit is obvious: He came to commemorate the 100th anniversary of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”
On Thursday the Pope went to the Nationals’ [...]
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