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Pat Borzi

Pat Borzi, a freelance writer and frequent contributor to the New York Times, will write about sports for MinnPost.com. Before moving to the Twin Cities in 2002, Borzi covered Major League Baseball and the Olympics for the Newark Star-Ledger. He previously worked at the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, the Miami Herald and Newsday, reporting on various amateur and professional sports. Borzi lives in South Minneapolis with his wife, Rachel Blount, a sportswriter and columnist for the Star Tribune, and their cat, Bella.

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Visa process for baseball players used to be maddening

By Pat Borzi | 02/22/08
Most winters, one of the most valuable members of the Minnesota Twins organization is a fellow who no longer plays baseball and does not live in the United States.
Sports

Twins budget and ballpark plans offer a good test for math students

By Pat Borzi | 02/12/08
Ready for a little arithmetic, Twins fans?Don't worry. You don't have to do a thing, except follow along.Here we go... Read more... By Pat Borzi
Sports

Clemens could hang a few verbal sliders -- and himself -- if he goes off-script at steroids hearing

By Pat Borzi | 02/12/08
Whether you believe Roger Clemens is a serial steroid user or the innocent victim of a smear campaign, get ready for a mangled syntax festival on Wednesday, when Clemens is scheduled to testify about the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major L
Politics & Policy

Nine days after her perplexing heart problem is solved, she's the basketball player of the week

By Pat Borzi | 02/08/08
By Pat Borzi | Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 Danielle Frank, a freshman at the College of St. Benedict, has been a walking medical mystery, plagued since the eighth grade by a heart condition that would come and go.
Sports

U women's hockey team flying high but still under media sports radar

By Pat Borzi | 02/01/08
Laura Halldorson no longer has parking privileges at Ridder Arena. She hardly cares, but there's something wrong with that.
Sports

Smith and Twins had limited leverage and little chance to win Santana sweepstakes

By Pat Borzi | 01/30/08
Bill Smith never had a chance.In the end, the New York Mets were the only serious bidders for Johan Santana.
Sports

Twins wrap up long-term deals with Morneau, Cuddyer

By Pat Borzi | 01/25/08
The Minnesota Twins have called a 4 p.m.
Politics & Policy

Women's hockey team faces new threat to its future

By Pat Borzi | 01/25/08
By Pat Borzi | Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 The Minnesota Whitecaps, a 4-year-old squad loaded with Olympic veterans and potential medalists, has always faced financial challenges staying afloat.
Politics & Policy

Minnesota skaters should cut quite a figure at national championships in St. Paul

By Pat Borzi | 01/18/08
By Pat Borzi | Friday, Jan. 18, 2008 The state has an array of up-and-comers ready to dazzle onlookers at next week's figure skating championships at Xcel Energy Center.
Sports

Free-spending new owner just what the Wild need to reach the next level

By Pat Borzi | 01/14/08
Bob Naegele Jr. is Rollerblading off into the sunset — or, at least, into a lesser ownership position with the Minnesota Wild — at the perfect time in franchise history.