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Dirt Spanker Mountain Bike Race 2010

May 11, 2010 No Comments


Outdoors, Sports

Paddles Up!

May 04, 2010 No Comments

The Duluth Boat Club’s Dragon Boat Team, the Invincible Dragons, is looking for a few good men and women. We need to round out our team with some power and style. A dragon boat requires 20 paddlers, a steersperson and a drummer (like a coxswain in rowing) and we have space on our roster.

The team will race in the Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival on Aug. 28 as well as two other festivals in the area. We are a friendly group of paddlers and athletes, new and seasoned, that take our competition seriously and take our fun even more seriously.  Skill, fitness, sportsmanship, and friendship are some of our key values on the team.  We meet roughly once a week for practice and usually will kill any beneficial workout with a couple of beers following. Anybody is welcome and we’ll teach you how to paddle the dragon boat stroke.

For more info send an email to megankress at gmail dot com.


Outdoors, Sports

Last Chance Bikers: Show Us Your Routes!

May 02, 2010 1 Comment

Monday, May 3, and Tuesday, May 4, are your last opportunities to show us how bicycling can be improved in your area! Fit City Duluth and the Metropolitan Interstate Council are working together to learn about the habits of bikers in Duluth. At these meetings you will be asked where you currently bike, where you would bike if it was easier, where bike racks should go, and other biking issues, and you will learn why this information is important for Duluth.

Food will be provided! Both meetings start at 6pm:

  • May 3 – Central Hillside Community Center (12 E 4th St)
  • May 4 – Portman Community Center (4601 McCulloch St)

Events, Outdoors, Sports

Last-minute Reminder for Bicyclers

Apr 25, 2010 No Comments

Fit City Duluth is hosting public meetings to survey bicycle riders in Duluth. Information gathered from these meetings will be used in a recommendation to the city and various other agencies who are interested in bicycle route development. The five remaining meetings will be held at 6pm at the following locations (and good food will be provided):

  • Monday, April 26th at the Piedmont Community Center
  • Tuesday, April 27 at City Center West
  • Thursday, April 29 at the UMD Garden Room
  • Monday, May 3 at the Central Hillside Community Center
  • Tuesday, May 4 at the Portman Community Center

Please visit fitcityduluth.com/bike for more information!


Events, Outdoors, Sports

First Thursday Motorcycle Ride returns!

Apr 22, 2010 4 Comments

You know the drill, right?
Get on your motorcycle, ride it to the co-op, have a cup of coffee, BS for a few minutes, then go for a ride with a bunch of random people, who knows? Maybe people you know. Whatever. Maybe we’ll even have a beer when we’re done. So get there, unless it’s pouring rain we do this. All bikes and all riders welcome. Tell your friends, find it on the Facebook … Twin Ports First Thursdays. See you there!


Events, Outdoors, Sports

Boundary Waters? Nah, this year, let’s paddle Nebraska.

Apr 20, 2010 7 Comments

When I was growing up in Nebraska, “tanking” was not … um … a thing.
I went tubing several times, but never tanking.
And I guess I got tanked.

I hope Nebraska doesn’t steal all of our tourists away.


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Duluth Women’s Soccer League

Apr 19, 2010 1 Comment

Recreational, Competitive Summer Soccer

Recreational soccer is an ideal fit for women who want to play just for fun.  It is non-competitive and beginners are not only welcomed but encouraged.  This is a great opportunity to learn the game, build skills, gather with women, get exercise and have fun.

Competitive soccer is perfect for women who have played competitively either in high school or college and are looking for a higher level of play one or two nights a week.

Register on-line at: duluthsoccer.com click on the DWSL link.

Registration deadline is May 1.

Games begin in early June and end in mid August. They will be held at Public Schools Stadium and some at UMD’s field.

For more information contact Kyle Elden 218-341-6115 or [email protected] or Trish Stinnett at [email protected]
Or visit duluthsoccer.com and click on DWSL.


Sports

It’s a whole new ballgame in Minneapolis

Apr 13, 2010 13 Comments

Time-lapse video by MPR’s Laura Gill


Sports, Videos

“What Happens in Duluth, Stays in Duluth. Mostly.”

Apr 07, 2010 11 Comments

ESPN writer Paul Lukas traveled to Duluth for the House of Hearts Celebrity Bonspiel last month. His article is funny but clearly he respects curlers and doesn’t take any of the cheap shots that many national writers do. He includes lots of great quips, like “What Happens in Duluth, stays in Duluth” and even makes a run to Super Duper town and puts the Anchor Bar on the ESPN map (pictured below from the article)


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Duluth’s Oneota Football Squad – 1915

Mar 09, 2010 4 Comments

Oneota Football 1915

I’m not sure if these are junior high students from Oneota School or if they are high school kids and this is a community team for the Oneota neighborhood (part of West Duluth). Denfeld didn’t have an official football team until 1917.

I don’t know the names of any of the players, except the guy sitting cross-legged in the middle — he’s my great uncle, Sam Brassard. (Yep, Uncle Sam.)

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Countdown to spring

Mar 08, 2010 1 Comment

The ski hill at Chester Bowl is scheduled to stay open through this weekend, but it looks like Mother Nature may not be patient and cooperative. Already this weekend, the creek started flooding the bottom of the hill. So if you’re interested in taking or watching a waterskiing run at the Bowl, today might be your day. The lift is open from 4:30 – 8:30 tonight (Monday 3/8). The next scheduled day the lift is open will be Thursday, but that’s a long way away. Lift tickets are $5 at the concession stand. While you’re there, pick up a nifty Chester Bowl Hoodie or long-sleeve T-shirt at the concession stand.


Outdoors, Recommendations, Sports, Videos

Photo of Dusty Olson and Scott Jurek in April issue of Runner’s World Magazine!

Mar 04, 2010 20 Comments

Not only did Duluth help raise the lovely Olympian runner Kara Goucher for a short time at Duluth East,  but ultramarathoner Scott Jurek calls it his hometown.

As I opened up this month’s issue to the article about Jurek,  I had to giggle with shock at the photo of he and another D-town personality, Dusty Olson!  Go buy the issue today!  And, oh,  start running, too.


Sports

Journalistic Integrety at Stake, part 2

Feb 28, 2010 4 Comments

Personally, I didn’t care much about the accuracy of Jeff Tweedy quotes in various media, but I believe I’ve found a media issue of the utmost importance to our society.

In the Duluth News Tribune’s report about Superior High School wrestler Nikola Bogojevic winning the state championship in his weight class, this paragraph jumped out at me:

Moments later he grabbed Superior coach Bill Gedde and put him in an airplane spin — made famous by professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper — to celebrate the title.

Since when did Roddy Piper make the airplane spin famous? I remember Mike Rotunda using it as his signature maneuver in the 1980s, but I don’t remember ever seeing Piper do it. I mean, I suppose it happened, but I just don’t associate that move with Piper.

Am I right here?

By the way, congratulations to Bogojevic for his victory, his awesome season, and most of all putting his coach in an airplane spin. That’s epic.


News and Current Affairs, Sports ,

Learn to Curl

Feb 23, 2010 8 Comments

The Release

So you think that you can out-shoot Olympic Skip John Shuster? Here’s your chance to try the sport… (John won’t be there…)

Olympic Celebration Open House Clinics

Learn to curl at the Duluth Curling Club! All equipment supplied. Must bring clean shoes.

Wednesday, Feb. 24, 7-9PM
Friday, Feb. 26, 5-7PM and 7-9PM
Saturday, Feb. 27, 12 – 230PM and 2:30PM – 5PM
Sunday, Feb. 28, 12 – 230PM and 2:30PM – 5PM

Visit their website: http://www.duluthcurlingclub.org/


Sports

A Tribute to the ol’ Cooper SK-100 Helmet

Feb 23, 2010 21 Comments

CooperHockeyHelmet

As the outdoor ice melts on another hockey season, I’d like to take a moment to honor my Cooper SK-100 helmet. We’ve been through a lot together.

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