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Off to the races in Superior

Travis Budisalovich didn’t waste much time in establishing himself as the driver to beat at Amsoil Speedway in Superior.

Local auto racing tracks are hoping for financial relief

Crash Carlson joked on Wednesday at the annual Northland auto racing media day that Amsoil Speedway officials got the 1,000 fans a night they were looking for at the track in Superior last season.

• Local auto racing schedules

Prep Newsmaker: Northwestern senior Dinkel stayed the course despite knee injury

Northwestern senior Gabe Dinkel injured his right knee last fall playing football and kept aggravating it over the winter playing basketball.

• The Gabe Dinkel file
• Face-to-face with Gabe Dinkel
• Prep newsmaker: Gabe Dinkel

College baseball: St. Scholastica heads into NCAA regional tournament

Kyle Jensen was in Florida earlier this spring with the St. Scholastica baseball team when the Saints’ lineup was announced before a game.

• Saints enter NCAA playoffs

Optimism remains for Wade Stadium upgrades

Kerry Gauthier remembers helping his cousin sell popcorn at Wade Stadium in the late 1960s, back when the Duluth Dukes were a Detroit Tigers’ minor league baseball affiliate.

Saints hope to take next step

Sixth-seeded St. Scholastica goes into its NCAA Division III first-round game against top-seeded Luther College at 10 a.m. today, and win or lose, Walter said, the Saints will have a good time playing the game together.

• St. Scholastica's globetrotters

St. Scholastica's globetrotters

Longtime St. Scholastica softball coach Jen Walter has always stressed the importance of academics and an all-around college experience to her players.

• Merryssa Tiedeman
• Saints hope to take next step

Hapy looks for Enduro glory Saturday at Proctor Speedway

• Hapy

College baseball: UMD enjoying second-half surge

After a slow start, UMD has won its way to postseason play and NSIC tournament

• Bulldogs in NSIC tourney

College softball: St. Scholastica wins UMAC tourney and berth in NCAA

The Gatorade shower has been a sports tradition since the mid-1980s, where athletes dump a cooler of icy liquid over a coach or player’s head following a big win.

• Saints win UMAC tourney

Columns

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