By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com After the opening week of April brought us the joy of the Masters, Final Four and opening week of the Major League Baseball season, this past week unfortunately highlighted part of the gloomier side of sports. NBA stars ask for Olympics pay Gone are the days of simply Read more »
The early reports are in on the 2012 Minnesota Twins and to say it has been ugly would be to understate the situation. Sure, the action on the field has been bad. Very bad. And while baseball is a 162 game marathon of a season, coming off of a 99-loss campaign, the only real thing Read more »
The good news is that it can’t get any worse. Right? A season after losing 99 games, the Minnesota Twins look to bounce back to at least being a respectable team in 2012. The common thought that is for that to be a reality, there needs to be a return to form from Joe Mauer Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Any question about how seriously the NFL commissioner’s office considered player bounties was answered in resounding fashion Wednesday. Commissioner Roger Goodell came down on the New Orleans Saints with all of the power he holds, handing out a year-long suspension to head coach Sean Payton, eight games to general Read more »
After perhaps the most underwhelming first day of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in history, Friday delivered more than enough madness to make up for it. Only four tmes in the 27 years since the tournament expanded to 64 (and now 68) teams had a 15th-seeded team knocked off a No. 2. Friday, that happened Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com I’ve started a handful of posts in the past month only to delete them because I haven’t had time to do my thoughts justice. So today I decided the heck with that, I have to at least get something, anything up, so here’s my no-huddle blogging: Saints bounty Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com If someone had told me before Sunday’s Super Bowl that in the final minute, one team would punch in a go-ahead touchdown, only for the other to come within a foot of hauling in a last-second Hail Mary pass, I would have been ecstatic. As often as not championship Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Every once in awhile when dealing with a work assignment, the urge to “mail it in” kicks in. Thankfully, I work with newspapers, so getting it in the mail is essential. Rim shot, please. Thank you. So, without further ado or analysis, here is my completely unscientific Super Bowl Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com It’s a Thursday afternoon and I miraculously find myself with an hour of downtime. If only I could land that Twins General Manager job, I could sign a couple of aging veterans and then just do relax like this all of the time. Anyway, there’s so much to cover, Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com With roughly one month left in the regular season for most area teams, here are a look at some of the potential section match-ups for several of the area’s top teams looking at trying to make a run at state. Boys Basketball Little Falls (11-2) The Flyers Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com In honor of my brother’s birthday, I’m going to sort this weekend’s NFL and BCS participants into “big brothers” and “little brothers.” My brother won 176 matches in high school as a wrestler and went on to win a national title in college. I, on the other hand, won Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com I’ve been feeling pretty good lately. Christmas, New Year’s, no angry voice/e-mail messages to return. Rather than let something unexpected come up and snap me out of it, I figured it would be best if I was proactive. So, I’m taking a shot at some NFL wildcard round playoff Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Hello all, and welcome to a special Christmas version of the blog (special because it’s Christmas, not because the writing is any more or less mediocre than usual). One of the biggest challenges in maintaining a blog while covering anywhere from 40-60 high school events a week is that Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com When it comes to general managers demanding too much in trades, David Stern now tops the list. The NBA commissioner/owner’s lackey/New Orleans Hornets president of basketball operations had quite the busy weekend. Fresh off of ratifying a new collective bargaining agreement, Stern, who along with the other 29 NBA Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com There’s too much to discuss for my own good today, so bear with me as I try to touch on all of the subjects I’ve wanted to be able to for the past couple of weeks. MLB, NHL improve their playoff formats while BCS improves its corruption It boggles Read more »
