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Braham defeats Esko girls for 7AA title

Braham girls basketball coach Tim Malone was a bit nervous in the waning moments of the Bombers’ Section 7AA championship game against Esko on Thursday night.

UMD women advance in NSIC tourney

The Winona State women’s basketball team made it clear early in Wednesday’s Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament opener that the Warriors weren’t going to let Minnesota Duluth standout Jheri Booker beat them.

Women put UMD back in playoff position

The Minnesota Duluth women’s basketball team was so good for so long under Karen Stromme that Bulldogs fans may have taken their success for granted, but that all changed after Stromme left in 2005.

• Jordanne Even

Notebook: Native of Germany wins his first Birkie classic

Former University of Vermont standout Juergen Uhl of Germany stole the show in his first Birkie appearance, winning the men’s classic race.

• Preserving the legend

Italian takes Birkie title

The American Birkebeiner cross-country ski marathon renewed its affiliation with the FIS Marathon Cup this year in an effort to attract more world-class skiers.

• Birkie
• Photo Gallery: American Birkebeiner 2010
• Results for the 37th American Birkebeiner
• Notebook: Native of Germany wins his first Birkie classic

UPDATE: Italian wins Birkebeiner, but not without a fight

Italian Fabio Santus won the 37th American Birkebeiner cross-country ski marathon in record time today, blistering a pace from Cable to downtown Hayward. Rebecca Dussault of Gunnison, Colo., defended her title and also set a record in the women's race.

Diehard skier part of ‘Birkie’ tradition

The year was 1973, and Jacque Lindskoog wasn’t trying to make a statement for women’s lib.

• Birkebeiner skier

Strong European contingent is back in the Birkie

The American Birkebeiner cross-country ski marathon commemorates the rescue of Norwegian baby Prince Haakon by Viking warriors in 1206, and each year the race serves as a festival of cultures.

• American Birkebeiner information

Birkie has snow, record field

Cherie Morgan watched as trucks rolled into downtown Hayward on Wednesday afternoon hauling snow.

• 37th American Birkebeiner

Saints, St. Norbert battle to a tie

St. Scholastica hockey player Aaron Spotts got the puck and beat goalie B.J. O’Brien to the glove side to lift fourth-ranked St. Scholastica to a 1-1 Northern Collegiate Hockey Association tie with third-ranked St. Norbert before a raucous 1,088 spectators at Mars Lakeview Arena.

• Goal!

Columns

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