The placeholder spot won the NHL draft lottery, meaning one of the eight teams that fails to advance out of the playoffs' qualifying round will get to pick first.
A Martin County commissioner, Mahoney's father was the winningest football coach in Minnesota history when he retired and his son is the current football coach and activities director at Fairmont.
NASCAR's decision to ban the Confederate battle flag has stirred conversations about attracting new fans. In some ways, that has overlooked the experiences of black fans already committed to the sport.
Luke Herbert and Noah Kandt were putting on the 12th green at Island View Golf Club when their round ended abruptly and their roles as bird rescuers commenced.
Whether bracketed by statuesque pines near Brainerd, the bright lights of the Twin Cities or Wabasha's leafy hardwoods, the Mississippi's one constant is beauty, and never more so than at night.
Yes, that's Gophers guard Sara Scalia dancing with Maya Moore after a Lynx game when Scalia was about 10 years old. The postgame scene is one of the team's most enduring traditions.
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