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An ‘uncommon common man’: Minnesotans mourn Bud Grant
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBack in January 1970, Kathy Igo of West St. Paul recalled Saturday, she along with family and friends drove a rented 24-foot RV to New Orleans to see Bud Grant and the Vikings in Super Bowl ...
Bud Grant, stoic coach of powerful Vikings teams, dies at 95
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBud Grant, the stoic and demanding Hall of Fame coach who took the Minnesota Vikings and their...
Reusse: Gutted N.Y. Times sports staff once had a sweet Minnesota angle
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo Sports· 10 months agoIra Berkow had received a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern when he was hired in 1965 to fill an opening in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune sports department ...
Vikings will win a Super Bowl, claims creator of video series on frustrating football teams
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo Sports· 8 months agoBeing a Vikings fan isn't easy. Let's just acknowledge that ahead of the season opener this weekend. Among their other failures, they have have never won a Super Bowl, despite having four chances ...
Reusse: Conceding defeat in this year’s statewide battle between winter sports
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThere wasn't much of a basketball/hockey rivalry for capturing the hearts and minds of Minnesota's sporting public until the late 1960s. Basketball was played from border to border, from hundreds ...