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Duluth mayor hopes to run half marathon

Patrick Ness noticed registration for the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon opened in February, so he pitched an idea to his older brother, Duluth Mayor Don Ness.

• Don Ness
• Grandma's Marathon notes: Andresen wins Daws Award
• Grandma's Marathon race event information
• Running success runs in family for defending Grandma's women's champ

Huskies go from red-hot to ice-cold

NORTHWOODS LEAGUE: The Border Cats did plenty of everything right in an 11-3 victory before 484 fans on a cool day that saw the temperature drop into the 40s by game’s end.

• Huskies pitcher Patrick McGrath

Victory of a lifetime for veteran Solon Springs racer Lisson

AUTO RACING: As Tim Lisson advanced through the rounds at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series stop at Brainerd International Raceway two weeks ago, the excitement began to boil over for the rest of the Lisson family back home in Solon Springs.

• Tim Lisson

Proctor boxers take swing at fundraising

Boxing gyms can be intimidating places, especially for a teenage girl.

• Proctor boxers
• Cud Peterson Memorial Smoker information

Hawks turn focus to state meet

PREP GOLF: Hermantown golf coach Ted Perala said last month that the Hawks wouldn’t worry about the state meet until they took care of things at sections first. Mission accomplished.

• Prep playoff schedule

Timely ace for St. Scholastica’s Kemp

GOLF: St. Scholastica baseball coach Corey Kemp was at Enger Park Golf Course on Friday intending to “knock off some rust” in preparation for today’s fifth annual John Baggs Memorial Golf Tournament.

Floodwood baseball team earns school's first trip to state

It was just one small step for first baseman Ross Schminski, but one giant leap for Floodwood High School athletics on Thursday in the Section 7A baseball final at Fichtner Field in Hermantown.

• Riley Bernsdorf pitches

Huskies school Rox for area kids

BASEBALL: Duluth defeated St. Cloud, 9-8, in 10 innings before 3,000 area schoolchildren on Education Day at Wade Stadium.

• Photo gallery: Duluth Huskies vs. St. Cloud Rox on Education Day
• Keith Curcio and Kyle Teaf

Huskies return home with doubleheader split

NORTHWOODS LEAGUE: The Huskies won the opener 7-1 before the MoonDogs rebounded to take the nightcap 7-2 in front of a crowd of 1,092 at Wade Stadium.

• Safe at first

Vavra, Huskies hope familiarity leads to success in 2013

NORTHWOODS LEAGUE: Trey Vavra wasn’t even two weeks removed from the 2012 Northwoods League season when he already knew where he’d be the next summer. In Duluth.

• Huskies' meet and greet
• Huskies win in 10

Columns

Newman still feels at home on a ball field

JON NOWACKI: Al Newman, who was a member of two Minnesota Twins world championship teams, is back in baseball as coach of the Alexandria Blue Anchors of the Northwoods League.

• Huskies rally past Blue Anchors
• Jon Nowacki
• Al Newman
• Morneau has three hits as Twins slip past Philadelphia

Picking a Super Bowl winner is easy this year — just ask anyone with an older brother

JON NOWACKI COLUMN: The odds of two brothers coaching against each other in the Super Bowl are something like one in a gazillion. Trust me. I did the math. Seven billion people in the world, divided by two brothers, plus E=mc, uh, oh, I’ll explain later.

• Jon Nowacki
• Game preview: Super Bowl of firsts, lasts, bests

After another successful season, Bulldogs lose a legend

NEWS TRIBUNE SPORTS STORY OF 2012: There was a time at Minnesota Duluth when thinking and dreaming big meant winning a conference title.

• UMD QB Chase Vogler
• Northland Newsmakers abounded in 2012

If NFL is still alive in 2525, maybe its love of parity will help prognosticating

JON NOWACKI: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell XXVII announced at a news conference today that the league finally has reached its goal: complete parity.

• Paper-bagged sports writer
• Few style points, but a win for Vikings
• Precise Rodgers picks apart St. Louis

Who needs a putter? Northland golfer with 19 aces sure doesn't

Herb Galliart of Cloquet spends most days on the golf course. And he has 19 holes-in-one to prove it.

• Herb Galliart

Modified series folds under economic crunch

Watch a NASCAR race, Proctor Speedway president Crash Carlson said, and you see a lot more empty seats than you did five to 10 years ago. A tough economy is likely to blame, and that has trickled to the grassroots level.

Superior’s Ray Ray is a Packers super fan, and a super friend

We didn’t quite know what to make of him. Eating and drinking to excess and wearing Packers’ gear from head to toe, he was a shining example of the Green Bay faithful.

• Edward Ray Erickson

EARLIER: Baggs is master booster — and his teams back it up

St. Scholastica baseball coach John Baggs, now facing the fight of his life against a rare form of cancer, has built the Saints program seemingly from scratch into a national power. But as good of a coach as he is, he is equally skilled at public relations.

• John Baggs