The NFL chose this coming Thursday as its schedule release day. The season will open roughly four months later, on another Thursday night, Sept. 7.
Shalie Lipp, trained out of the Academy of Combat Arts in Fargo and was scheduled for an amateur fight on May 20 in Detroit Lakes. Lipp was a high school track and field standout at Perham High School.
In most games this season, the Twins figure to have a better starting pitcher than their opponent. Unless it happens to be a game where the best starting pitcher in baseball is "whomever is facing the Twins' lineup."
The first-place Twins and their last-place hitting are troubling columnist Patrick Reusse, who also weighs in on Wolves president Tim Connelly's commitment to the team and U softball providing respite from local sporting gloom.
Sonny Gray was called for two pitch clock violations during Saturday's loss and Alex Kirilloff took an automatic strike three on Sunday.
Denver Nuggets All-Star center Nikola Jokic was assessed a technical foul in the second quarter of Game 4 on Sunday after an altercation with Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia.
They came 150,000 strong for the party of the year, adorned in the gaudiest of hats and sipping on mint juleps, witnesses to what, at its best, is the most thrilling two minutes in sports.
Seven horses died at Churchill Downs in the lead-up to Saturday's Kentucky Derby — five during the week and two more after races that led up to the Derby on Saturday afternoon.
The demands of a seven-game series in the opening round and the immediate transition into the conference semifinals left the Seattle Kraken needing a breather.
Sam Reinhart scored 3:02 into overtime and the Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Sunday night to take a commanding 3-0 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series.
Federal officials were looking into whether the gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall expressed an interest in white supremacist ideology Sunday as they work to try to discern a motive for the attack, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official cautioned the investigation is in its early stages.
Vida Blue, a hard-throwing lefthander who became one of baseball's biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash A's to three consecutive World Series titles before his career was derailed by drug problems, died Saturday, according to the team. He was 73.
