Ernie Clement broke an 8-all tie with a bases-loaded single in the seventh inning and the Toronto Blue Jays overcame a six-run deficit to beat the Minnesota Twins 10-8 on Saturday.
Jamal Murray rebounded from a rough start to the Western Conference semifinals with 24 points to lead the Denver Nuggets on a 117-90 romp in Game 3 on Friday night that made the Minnesota Timberwolves the last team in the NBA to lose this postseason.
About half a million anglers are expected to cast their first fishing lines of the season during Saturday’s Minnesota fishing opener. Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan are going to try their luck at Lake Pepin in southeast Minnesota.
At a tattoo studio in Roseville, JC Stroebel and Jesse George are spending the next several days with dozens of tattoo appointments all for the same piece of art — Naz Reid’s name.
The Twins got the bounces, like when Miranda checked his swing in the first inning and accidentally hit a slow-bouncing single up the third base line. But there were plenty of hard-hit balls, like the 104 mph drive Jeffers sent into the flower boxes above the wall in left-center field.
The Minnesota Timberwolves don’t just have home-court advantage at this Friday’s semifinal game: The team is coming in hot with a 2-0 lead against defending NBA champions the Denver Nuggets. Minnesota fans want to be part of the action, but soaring ticket prices mean many will be watching from outside Target Center.
Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns was named the recipient of the NBA’s social justice award. Towns was one of five finalists for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Trophy.
Minnesota fans under the age of 33 have never seen their teams take home a men’s championship in four major sports. Some are letting themselves hope that’s about to change.
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