NEW ROUTES FOR ROAD RUNNERS
Executives who jog don't have to break training on business trips or face unfamiliar terrain or inclement weather. The solution: indoor tracks. Here's a list of tracks near business centers in five...
View ArticleDays of thunder: Twins welcome back '87 team
Twenty years after winning the first World Series title in Minnesota Twins history, the "G-Man," "Sweet Music," "Herbie" and company gathered Friday night to start a weekend of celebrating.
View ArticleSantana sets Twins record with 17 strikeouts
Johan Santana gave the crowd at the Metrodome something to remember on the same weekend the Minnesota Twins honored their first championship team.
View ArticleGophers defenseless through first 3 games
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Through three games against beatable opponents, Minnesota is by and large defenseless.
View ArticlePeter King: Rededicated Favre shines even without running game
Deanna Favre leaned over the railing after her husband's very big day at the Metrodome and asked: "Do you still have an MVP vote?''
View ArticleSteve Aschburner: Twins-White Sox square off in week's Central showdown
MINNEAPOLIS -- Neither the White Sox nor the Twins were supposed to be participating in a pennant race this season. It's an expectation to which both AL Central teams have spent the past month living...
View ArticleSteve Aschburner: Griffey not paying off for ChiSox
MINNEAPOLIS -- Stepping back into the batter's box this week at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for the first time since 2001, Ken Griffey Jr. has had moments that have felt decidedly like old times.
View ArticleSteve Aschburner: Twins sweep White Sox, regain first place
Reality eventually found its way into the Minnesota Twins' clubhouse late Thursday night but it took awhile, hanging back respectfully until giddiness had had its way.
View ArticleSteve Aschburner: Twins make lousy front-runners
Five things we learned from the Twins' 4-2 loss to the Royals on Saturday afternoon at the Metrodome, extending the AL Central anguish yet another day:
View ArticleSteve Aschburner: Baker keeps Twins alive in wild division chase
MINNEAPOLIS -- Things I learned before, during and after the Twins' 6-0 victory over the Royals on Sunday at the Metrodome, the 162nd game of their regular season that feels more like No. 161 1/3:
View ArticleRoss Tucker: Vikings missing key ingredient
Lost amidst the buzz of the recent Jay Cutler-to-Chicago trade is the lack of an experienced starter at a critical position for the other top contending team in the NFC North. Yes, I am talking about...
View ArticleSteve Aschburner: Open-air Target Field will let baseball breathe in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS -- As you walk around what will become, in eight short months, the Minnesota Twins' custom-built home and the major league's newest ballpark, your glance keeps drifting upward and, as if...
View ArticleTom Verducci: The Twins' resiliency, Billy Butler's breakout season and more
1) The Twins have played the entire season in a narrow window of mediocrity. They never have been more than three games better than .500 and never worse than six games below .500. Their first baseman...
View ArticleDon Banks: Favre issues another reminder
MINNEAPOLIS -- This is why they wanted him. This is why they went out and got him. For the kind of moment that came on Sunday, and the kind of play that seemingly only he can make. And no, I'm not...
View ArticleTom Verducci: Tigers-Twins winner faces stacked deck against Yankees in ALDS
As close a race as is the American League Central, a winner already has emerged as the Tigers and Twins battle to the wire: it's the New York Yankees, the winner's Division Series opponent.
View ArticleTed Keith: Can Verlander's arm counter Twins' momentum to win AL Central?
As team sports go, the regular-season collapse is a phenomenon unique to baseball. After all, there isn't much sense getting too worked up over whether a team blew its chance to be the No. 8 seed in...
View ArticleTed Keith: Twins should finish off Tigers on Tuesday
With all due apologies to TNT -- the sister station to TBS that will broadcast Tuesday's one-game American League Central playoff game between the Tigers and Twins and the ensuing Division Series that...
View ArticleBen Reiter: Five Keys to Yankees-Twins Division Series
NEW YORK -- Near the end of the Yankees' one-hour-and-45-minute workout on Tuesday, as workers swept and power-washed new Yankee Stadium's concourses in anticipation of its first-ever playoff game on...
View ArticleSteve Aschburner: Twins clinch Central in epic fitting of park that won't die
Back in the day, the Thing That Wouldn't Leave was John Belushi, in a classic Saturday Night Live skit about a rude slob who plants himself on the neighbors' couch, raids their refrigerator, dials...
View ArticleJoe Posnanski: Friendly Fenway, more Metrodome magic
1. Boston's offense looked anemic in Anaheim, but the truth is that the Red Sox have had a mediocre offense on the road all year. They hit only .257 away from home this season -- 27 points worse than...
View ArticleBen Reiter: Yankees force Twins into fatal mistake
MINNEAPOLIS --- About forty-five minutes after Mariano Rivera induced the weak groundout from Brendan Harris that ended this American League Division Series, a few Twins fans lingered in some hidden...
View ArticleRoss Tucker: Poor coaching to blame for Packers' loss
Lost amid the drama of Brett Favre's return to Lambeau Field on Sunday was that a very important game in the NFC North was lost almost exclusively because of poor coaching and game-planning by the...
View ArticlePeter King: Brett Favre hopes his detractors understand now why he came back
Football Insiders:Check out Stewart Mandel's College Football Overtime column.
View ArticleRoss Tucker: Dome-field advantage all about decibel levels
Even though dome teams historically don't fare all that well in the postseason, they still possess a significant advantage. The reason playoff home games are coveted is not because of travel or the...
View ArticleJim Trotter: Cowboys come up small when it matters
MINNEAPOLIS -- Jerry Jones' voice was as raw as the disappointment in the Cowboys' locker room after a 34-3 loss to the Vikings on Sunday in the Metrodome. A postseason of promise had been buried...
View ArticleTom Verducci: Baseball keeps connection to its past as domes change NFL
Imagine that Major League Baseball instituted a new rule for the postseason. Only the home team may use signals to put on plays, such as from the third-base coach or dugout. What about the road team?...
View ArticleSky Andrecheck: Target Field won't likely provide that good ol' home-field...
The Minnesota Twins opened their 2010 home season this week in a brand new ballpark. Target Field replaced the Metrodome, which had been home to the Twins for 28 years. By beating the Red Sox 5-2 on...
View ArticleSteve Rushin: The best job ever -- my one-figure deal with the Minnesota Twins
Nearly every day for the past 20 years someone has told me, "You have the best job ever." And while sportswriting has never felt like hard labor -- except when I tried to interview Carlton Fisk -- it...
View ArticleStorm strands motorists, air travelers and promises more
The main thrust of a raging storm that dumped snow in parts of the Midwest over the weekend moved north of the border Monday, but the United States will still feel some of its effects in the form of...
View ArticleSteve Rushin: In memory of the Metrodome
If you're not from there, you think the Midwest is composed of interchangeable parts. A CNN graphic last weekend showed heavy snow in "Minneapolis, Wisconsin." An ABC studio host told a freezing...
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