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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.
RELATED CONTENTVictory 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.
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Boxing gyms can be intimidating places, especially for a teenage girl.
RELATED CONTENTHawks 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.
RELATED CONTENTTimely 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.
RELATED CONTENTHuskies 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.
RELATED CONTENTHuskies 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.
RELATED CONTENTVavra, 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.
RELATED CONTENTCherry earns trip to state to defend softball title
Thursday’s Section 7A softball matchup featured the upstart Littlefork-Big Falls Vikings against the three-time defending section champion Cherry Tigers, winners of the Class A title last spring.
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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.
RELATED CONTENTPicking 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.
RELATED CONTENTAfter 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.
RELATED CONTENTIf 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.
RELATED CONTENTWho 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.
RELATED CONTENTModified 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.
RELATED CONTENTSuperior’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.
RELATED CONTENTEARLIER: 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.
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