Pat Borzi is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to the New York Times.
Bundled in a dark blue Bethel jacket with a white hoodie underneath, Johnson couldn’t stop smiling. “I just love this group,” he said. “Find a way and get to what’s next.” What’s next is a playoff berth.
Ranked No. 7 nationally in preseason, the 2023 team finds itself 10-9 and reeling in early October after back-to-back losses at Maryland and Rutgers, traditionally two of the worst teams in the Big Ten.
Though the Minnesota Twins were eliminated from the playoffs, halting 19 years without a post season win and a young core has the team upbeat about what’s yet to come.
Correa gives the Twins something they haven’t had in a long time: someone who anticipates and sees things other players and managers don’t.
Plans for Power 104.7 include brief news segments between sets of music.
Two numbers tell the story: 18, and 2002. The first represents the Twins’ MLB-record postseason losing streak, mostly to the Yankees. The second? That’s the last time the Twins won a playoff series.
Strawberry quickly showed he could still hit, belting 18 homers and batting .435 with 39 RBI in 29 games for the Saints.
Why should you care if you don’t live in L.A. or New York, don’t like sports and don’t subscribe to either paper? Because this kind of shortsightedness could be coming to a paper near you.
Coupled with all the high-rise construction the past decade in Downtown East and up and down Washington Avenue, Charlie Rybak envisions a growing readership for Downtown Voices.
Aurora’s founders envision the team moving up from the USL W League to the professional USL Super League and ultimately the National Women’s Soccer League.
Without the Tommies, most MIAC observers believe the conference has become more competitive and balanced.
WNBA rosters are notoriously difficult for rookies to make, yet Reeve vowed to give the club’s four draftees – Diamond Miller, Connecticut forward Dorka Juhász, South Carolina guard Brea Beal and forward Taylor Soule of Virginia Tech – legitimate shots.
“The simplest way to put this is, this is our baby, and it’s still our baby. You don’t walk away from something you poured a lot into.”
As Dawn Plitzuweit high-fived Goldy Gopher, stepped to the podium and began her remarks, eyes shifted from Plitzuweit to the players and back for any signs of acceptance or dissonance.
One of just three women coaching a men’s college team, Tamara Moore has the Minnesota college on the brink of a national tournament bid.
Asked directly whether Whalen had stepped down, as the release said, or been fired, University of Minnesota athletics director Mark Coyle said he and Whalen “mutually agreed to step down.”
“Here’s The Truth with Georgia Fort” premiers March 11 on The CW Twin Cities, airing Saturdays at 11 a.m.
The Minnesota Wild were in freefall in July 2012 when they stunned the hockey world – and themselves – by signing free agents Zach Parise and Ryan Suter to identical 13-year, $98 million contracts.
The Lee and Penny Anderson Arena will hold about 4,000 patrons for hockey, 5,000 for basketball and 6,000 for concerts and university commencements.
The Scots are 7-2 overall and 4-1 in conference play entering the holiday break, tied with Carleton for second behind St. John’s.
