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Construction underway on St. Paul Saints ballpark

The 7,000 seat stadium will replace Midway Stadium just west of Snelling on the north edge of St. Paul.
by Tim Nelson

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Video: Tearing up the turf at TCF Bank Stadium

Video: Tearing up the turf at TCF Bank Stadium

The Vikings will have to play at least four December games in the 2014 and 2015 season at the University of Minnesota and the stadium must be winterized.
by Tim Nelson

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Olympic great Michael Phelps ending retirement

Olympic great Michael Phelps ending retirement

The 22-time Olympic medalist will compete for the first time since the 2012 London Games at a meet in Mesa, Ariz., on April 24-26.
by The Associated Press

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Wild enter playoffs with momentum

The Minnnesota Wild were beaten by Nashville 7-3 in their regular season finale. They begin a playoff series against Colorado on Thursday. MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Howard Sinker, a digital sports editor for the Star Tribune, about why the loss to Nashville doesn't really bode ill for the team, and what to look for in the upcoming playoff series.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Dinkytown Diary: The ‘blame game’

Dinkytown Diary: The ‘blame game’

As surprising as the University of Minnesota men's hockey team's defensive "no-show" was at Saturday night's NCAA championship game, anyone could see the Dinkytown arrests and damage coming from a mile away. And the post-"riot" quarterbacking has been even more predictable. And this is in a city that lost a championship game.
by Bob Collins

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Bubba Watson is Masters champ again

Bubba Watson is Masters champ again

Bubba Watson has won the Masters for the second time in 3 years.
by The Associated Press

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By helping gay athletes, group hopes to refocus on talent

By helping gay athletes, group hopes to refocus on talent

This week, Derrick Gordon became the first openly gay player in NCAA Division 1 basketball. You Can Play, the organization that helped him through the process, hopes someday to be irrelevant.
by Becky Sullivan

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Union wins NCAA title, beating Minnesota 7-4

Tiny Union College skated off with the biggest trophy in college hockey. Union (32-6-4) won its final 12 games and went 16-0-1 in its last 17. The 2,200-student liberal arts college in Schenectady, N.Y., competes in Division III in all other sports.
by The Associated Press

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Gary Woodland shoots 30 on front side at Masters

With the leaders still waiting to tee off, Gary Woodland put on quite a show for the early arrivers at Augusta National.
by The Associated Press

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