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Heath out as Minnesota United FC coach
Despite having a talented MLS roster, the team is winless in its prior seven games and is on course to miss the playoffs. Adrian Heath has led the Loons since it became a top-tier professional franchise in 2017 and had one year remaining on his contract.
MN Now and Then: When famed baseball pitcher Charles Albert Bender and his biggest rival tried a new sport
Charles Albert Bender of the White Earth Nation was on the downward slope of his career in 1915, when he got the opportunity to participate in a trapshooting tour.
Twins set free Target Field watch parties for playoff games in Houston
The team will open Target Field Saturday and Sunday so fans can watch the American League Division Series games against the Astros on the ballpark’s big screen. The action shifts back to Minnesota with Game 3 set for Oct. 10.
MLB playoffs 2023: Twins, Rangers, Diamondbacks and Phillies advance with Wild Card Series sweeps
Minnesota, Texas, Arizona and Philadelphia finished off postseason sweeps Wednesday as all four best-of-three Wild Card series ended in two games. A pair of road teams advanced — the Rangers and Diamondbacks — while the Twins and Phillies won at home. 
Twins fans celebrate team's first playoff series win since 2002
The Minnesota Twins are heading to the American League Division Series in Houston after winning Wednesday's game and sweeping the Toronto Blue Jays in a wild card series.
Twins advance for 1st time in 21 years with 2-0 win to sweep Blue Jays behind Gray, Correa
The Minnesota Twins swept the Toronto Blue Jays in their AL Wild Card Series with a 2-0 win in Game 2. Sonny Gray pitched five innings and Carlos Correa contributed an RBI single and a quick-twitch tag off a pickoff throw from Gray that ended the fifth. The Twins advanced for the first time in 21 years.