Minneapolis Star Tribune

Terry Porter is an NBA All-Star, has started on two Western Conference championship teams, is generally regarded among the top five players at his position in the league and finished...

There was a large garage behind the house. A basketball hoop was attached to the garage. A concrete slab served as the court. The major obstacle was a tree branch....

He lives in Cleveland these days, toiling for a mediocre team in a mausoleum of a ballpark on the chilly shores of Lake Erie. The team`s record- 14-28 since the...

In the last six years, the Minnesota Twins have had a number of characters in their clubhouse. Al Newman was the nicest player (with Randy Bush a close second). How...

You`re Bill McCartney, Colorado`s football coach. Your team has won 20 straight conference games and three straight Big Eight titles. Only Miami has fielded a more successful team the last...

Every report claims that Tommy Tune stretches in at 6-foot-6, but don`t you believe it. Make it 8-foot-8, or maybe 10-foot-10. Right now, the 52-year- old Tune is stretched from...

For the first time in 57 years, the pasts of the franchises playing for Lord Stanley`s Cup cannot be measured by banners in the rafters or championship rings on the...

Pete Ulland loved kids so much that they followed him in groups as he delivered mail for more than 50 years in Grand Forks, N.D. When he died in a...

One summer day maybe 10 or 12 years ago, two dapper men walked into the newspaper office in Chisholm, Minn., and started asking the publisher about old Doc Graham, major-league...

If your last camping experience was when you were a kid, and you tried to sleep rolled up in a blanket under a pup tent, and in the morning it...