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The best public-access and private golf courses in Minnesota, ranked
Looking to play the best golf courses in Minnesota? Welcome to our annual Golfweek’s Best ranking of public-access and private courses. Following are the rankings for both types of courses, as judged by our nationwide network of raters. The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce all our Golfweek’s Best course rankings.
Plymouth Residents Help Grow Sport of Cricket
It’s a sport that has exploded in popularity across the U.S. Cricket — which is deeply popular in India — has also found success in the northwest metro. Last December, Eka Sport, a group started by Plymouth residents, partnered with the Minnesota Youth Cricket Academy to open Minnesota’s first indoor cricket facility.
Edina Legion rolls into sub-state tourney
Edina’s most improbable American Legion baseball victory of the year July 19 put the Hornets in position for a first- or second-place seed in the Sub-State 3 Tournament. Trailing the Wayzata Wizards 6-0 by the middle of the second inning, Edina’s hopes for victory looked bleak, and by the fourth inning Wayzata led 12-3 with a chance to end the contest via the 10-run rule. But Edina wasn’t finished. The...
Gophers football slotted 12th in Big Ten preseason poll
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The University of Minnesota football team will likely head into the 2024 season with quite the chip on its shoulder. The Gophers, coming off a 6-7 season, were placed 12th in a Big Ten preseason poll put together by Cleveland.com on Monday. The league will have 18 teams for the first time with the addition of former Pac-12 teams USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon.
Monday Deadline to Sign Up for Minnesota Senior Games
ST. CLOUD (WJON News) -- Monday is the last day to sign up for the Minnesota Senior Games in St. Cloud. Registration will close at the end of the day. Hundreds of athletes aged 50 and above from across the state and beyond will compete in over 15 events. The...
Meet the athletes with Minnesota ties on Team USA at the Paris Summer Olympics
Suni Lee and Regan Smith are back in the Olympics after star turns in Tokyo, while Minnesota boasts a four-time Olympian and cornerstones of USA Basketball. Meet the athletes with Minnesota ties on Team USA at the Paris Summer Olympics. Located in Litchfield, MN we deliver the latest in local...
2024 Minnesota State Hall of Fame Class Announced
MANKATO, Minn. --- The Minnesota State Athletic Department has selected nine individuals and one team for the school's Hall of Fame ceremonies which will take place on Friday, October 4. New members of the Hall of Fame in the student-athlete category include Shane Joseph (men's hockey, '04), Lindsay Erickson (softball,...
Regan Smith's rivalry with Australian swimming star peaks at Paris Olympics
MINNEAPOLIS — Two of the greatest female backstroke swimmers will face off twice at the Paris Olympics seeking gold, world records and, for Lakeville native Regan Smith, the reclaiming of a crown.
Setback costs Excelsior No. 1 Legion seed
An unexpected slip-up last week cost the Excelsior American Legion baseball team the No. 1 seed for this week’s Sub-State 4 Tournament. Chanhassen ambushed the Fire Club for a 6-3 decision July 8. Meanwhile, Eden Prairie won three straight games against tough competition to gain the No. 1 seed. Excelsior (22-5) and Eden Prairie (23-5) were almost identical record-wise at the end of the regular season. The coaches in Sub-State...
Garza features in week two of Twin Cities Pro-Am
The Twin Cities Pro-Am, an official summer league for professional, collegiate and prep basketball players in Minnesota, continued last week at Minnehaha Academy. Multiple area players continued to play their part in the tournament last week and a few new local faces also entered the mix. The Breck School was well represented by the addition of Miles Newton to the Team Tyus roster on July 15. Newton showed out for...
Caitlin Clark Pledges To Break Sue Bird's WNBA All-Star Game Record
The hoop has largely eluded Caitlin Clark during this WNBA All-Star Game. But that hasn't stopped the Indiana Fever rookie sensation from making her mark on All-Star Game history. In the third quarter of the game, Clark logged her ninth assist of the game. In doing so, she broke the WNBA rookie ...
Lynx co-captains reflect on first half success at 2024 WNBA All-Star Weekend
PHOENIX — Saturday night’s showcase in the desert was just as much a business trip as it was a WNBA All-Star Game. The game serves as a jumping off point for Team USA on their way to the Olympics — especially for Team USA head coach Cheryl Reeve, the Minnesota Lynx head coach and president of basketball operations.
Matt Higgins inspired by daughters to bring leadership to the Gophers
The newly named head coach of Gophers golf, Matt Higgins, used to be worried about how well his players shot. Now, he said he cares more about his players’ feelings after their rounds. Time away from coaching and desires for how he wanted his daughters to be coached led...
Hopkins banks on pitching for sub-state
Several changes in sub-state alignments left American Legion baseball teams in Sub-State 3 with a one in six chance of making it to the State Division I Tournament. Chaska announced that it was dropping out of the playoffs and Bloomington 1 was moved into a different sub-state by the state Legion tournament committee, leaving only six in Sub-State 3: The host team from Shakopee, plus Chanhassen, Edina, Hopkins, Hutchinson and Waconia. None of those six teams made it to state in 2023. Hopkins and Edina...
Gopher Wren Warne-Jacobsen wins second national college figure skating title
The University of Minnesota’s Wren Warne-Jacobsen topped the podium for the second straight year at the U.S. Figure Skating Collegiate Championships in Richfield on Saturday. Warne-Jacobsen’s preparation to compete against 26 other skaters from 22 universities took place 20 miles southwest of the competition rink in the Shakopee Ice...
Raspberry title repeat for A&M Lumber
The A&M Lumber men’s slowpitch softball team showed up at Central Park July 20 determined to repeat as champions of the Hopkins Raspberry Tournament. Eleven other teams had the same goal, so it wasn’t an easy path to the championship for A&M, but their poise and resolve got them through as they defeated the Mighty Mulch Heads 6-3 in the second championship game. “We had lost to the Mulch Heads...
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