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Former Globetrotters foe among celebrity players at charity event
Linda Riddle, executive director of Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs, will have a few tricks of her own when the Ambassadors play the DAIP Hot Shots in a charity basketball game today at 3 p.m. at Duluth East High School.
RELATED CONTENTAt Oktoberfest Duluth, a beer in hand brings ... pain
RICK LUBBERS COLUMN: It’s no coincidence that “masskrugstemmen” sounds like an ancient torture device. That’s because after about two minutes of “stein holding” — the English translation — you’re ready to start spilling family secrets.
RELATED CONTENTFantasy football league going strong in 37th season
RICK LUBBERS: A fantasy football league founded in 1976 is still going strong in Lake Nebagamon.
RELATED CONTENTRick Lubbers column: Retreats require some work to relax
Packing for a boys weekend with old high school buddies is a lot different than packing for a family vacation.
RELATED CONTENTRough play forces refs to take a hike during semi-pro football game in Duluth
Referees blow whistles, throw flags, call penalties, enforce rules and deflect a steady stream of verbal shots. They rarely have to pull the plug on a game before the final gun.
RELATED CONTENTNew Vikings stadium needs fresh air
RICK LUBBERS: The Minnesota Vikings’ home-field superiority at the open-air Metropolitan Stadium versus the hermetically sealed Metrodome is a myth.
RELATED CONTENTRick Lubbers column: Picking the big guy was a no-brainer for Vikings
Offensive linemen aren’t sexy draft choices.
RELATED CONTENTVictim of Duluth hit-and-run crash rebuilds a life, one memory at a time
RICK LUBBERS: When Alex Balluff shoots baskets with the Minnesota Timberwolves today, his parents will snap dozens of photos. Without those pictures, Alex, 20, won’t be able to re-create the memories of the special event once they inevitably evaporate from his short-term memory.
RELATED CONTENTNHL pioneer inspires newest generation of players in the Northland
Had Willie O’Ree not experienced the ugliness of racism and segregation of the 1950s Deep South, he might not have broken the National Hockey League’s color barrier.
RELATED CONTENT'Jackie Robinson of NHL' says Deep South steered him onto ice
Willie O’Ree told a Pucks Against Poverty luncheon that a baseball tryout in Georgia helped steer him toward hockey and eventually the distinction of being the “Jackie Robinson of the NHL.”
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Donahue family celebrates more than the average Thanksgiving
RICK LUBBERS: Recovering from brain cancer surgery and a stroke, Jon Donahue of "The Average Guys" cable TV show has new-found appreciation for everyday blessings.
RELATED CONTENTFrom Wade Stadium to Yankee Stadium
RICK LUBBERS: Postseason baseball heroes aren’t created at storied venues like Yankee Stadium, they’re merely unveiled there.
RELATED CONTENTAfter Monday's 'inaccurate reception,' NFL may need replacement fans
RICK LUBBERS: If NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell lived in a world replete with replacement people and parts, maybe he’d feel differently about the replacement referees he employs to oversee pro football games.
RELATED CONTENTRick Lubbers column: Good luck, replacement refs — you’ll need it
Hello, everybody. I am Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League. Welcome to NFL officiating 101.
RELATED CONTENTDuluth Horseshoes Club looks for resurgence
RICK LUBBERS: Merritt Park is now the club's headquarters. Approximately 25-28 faithful members sling horseshoes around during the season that runs May through August.
RELATED CONTENTDelayed Olympics coverage outmoded in live, online world
RICK LUBBERS: A warning to our readers: This column is tape-delayed. Everything I have written may already have occurred by the time you read this.
RELATED CONTENTDayton is casualty of war-football clichés
RICK LUBBERS: Football is replete with war vernacular. National Football League games have so many bombs, shotgun formations, blitzes, field generals, warriors, battles in the trenches, aerial assaults, ground attacks, defensive lines and offensive weapons that sometimes it seems as if Wolf Blitzer is calling the game and not Al Michaels.
RELATED CONTENTRick Lubbers column: Combine darts and baseball, and the result is ... dartball
Dartball isn’t a new movie starring Ben Stiller or Zach Galifianakis, and it might not be the sport of the future, but Duluth’s Stacey Seering vividly remembers the first time he played it.
RELATED CONTENTWith a combined five holes-in-one, husband-wife duo is trading aces
RICK LUBBERS: Al and Peggy Hanson have been married for 37 years, but the lifelong Duluthians don’t measure their marriage in years so much as they do in holes-in-one.
RELATED CONTENTLUBBERS: He ran from Duluth to Two Harbors, then back
It’s not every runner who gets told he’s running the wrong way on the Grandma’s Marathon course.
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