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Michael Rand

Team Leader  |  Prep Sports

Phone: 612-673-7564

E-mail: mrand@startribune.com

Michael Rand is an assistant sports editor mainly responsible for coverage of high school sports.

Recent content from Michael Rand

• Podcast episode: Randbites: Gomez and AP
  Rand and Linnemann talk about what Carlos (Go-Go) Gomez and Adrian Peterson have in common.
  May 9, 2008
• Rainouts put Annandale on double-time schedule
  Annandale baseball coach Ron Starke joked that his team was embarking on a "Minnesota Twins" schedule starting this week.
  May 7, 2008
• Podcast episode: Randbites: Taking the Wonderlic test
  Rating the intelligence levels of potential draftees through the Wonderlic test. Sample questions included.
  May 2, 2008
• Latest football idea: All 11 eligible
  Kurt Bryan might be onto something. Bryan, the head football coach at Piedmont (Calif.) High, e-mailed recently to spread the word about the A-11 offense, a formation in which all 11 offensive players are potentially eligible.
  Apr 30, 2008
• Film is a curve ball
  Former Twins pitcher Scott Erickson and his wife, Lisa Guerrero, threw their resources behind the kid-friendly "A Plumm Summer."
  Apr 25, 2008
• Podcast episode: Randbites, Podcast: Twin Cities Marathon, Wild and Vikings
  Michael Rand and Tom Linnemann have registered to run the Twin Cities Marathon. And they discuss the Wild and Vikings, too.
  Apr 18, 2008
• Future Gophers gather for all-star games
  Future Gophers basketball players Kiara Buford of St. Paul Central, Jackie Voigt of Park of Cottage Grove and Brianna Mastey of Becker highlight a list of 40 of the top girls' basketball players who will compete in the Minnesota Girls' Basketball Coaches Association Clash of the Classes, a four-team tournament this weekend at Schoenecker Arena on the University of St. Thomas campus.
  Apr 18, 2008
• Podcast episode: Randbites: On the NCAA and hockey tourneys, and The Office, too
  Michael Rand and Tom Linnemann take on the NCAA tourney -- and coaching -- plus playoff hockey and The Office letdown (so it's not sports. Get over it).
  Apr 11, 2008
• Podcast episode: Randbites: The troubling sports landscape
  In their inaugural podcast Michael Rand, of RandBall fame, and former St. John's quarterback and Fox Sports Net personality Tom Linnemann discuss the troublesome but evolving sports landscape. Should pro athletes be held to higher standards than the rest of us? Do college athletes deserve special treatment?
  Apr 11, 2008
• Pulling hard for a Wild playoff win
  The players aren't the only ones ready to start the playoffs. Fans are snapping up tickets and merchandise and hoping for a long Stanley Cup run.
  Apr 9, 2008

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