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Local Idiots Wreck Minnesota Soccer Field By Doing A Bunch Of Donuts On It<em></em>
Police in Hastings, Minnesota have identified two men they suspect of driving onto the Veterans Athletic Complex and doing a ludicrous amount of donuts, damaging over 200,000 square feet of soccer fields in the process, according to ABC 5 Eyewitness News. The two men, who have not been publicly name...
High School Playoff Game Ends With Rare Double Court Storming After Officials Wave Off Presumed Buzzer-Beater
Minnesota high schools Albany and Melrose faced off on Friday with a section championship and a spot in the state tournament on the line. Albany had only 2.3 seconds left in the game to get up a game-winning shot after Melrose had just put themselves up by one point. Albany inbounded the ball to And...
The Best And Brightest Of This Year's Minnesota High School Hockey Hair
Could it be? Is this really the final Minnesota High School All-Hockey Hair Team? John King, the caretaker of this hallowed pantheon, frames this year’s video as the last ever. If this really is the end, at least he made it count. Somehow, New Ulm forward Teagan Kamm’s combination of a bleached mull...
Minnesota High School Hockey Announcer Yanked Off Air After "Lynching Ropes" Comment
Doug McLeod, a play-by-play announcer for the Minnesota Boys’ State Hockey Tournament, was pulled off the air Thursday after he referred to “lynching ropes” during a game broadcast....
High School Whose Students Taunted Predominantly Black School With Trump Flag Dropped Out Of MLK Day Tourney
Students from Jordan High School (Minn.) brought a Trump 2020 flag to a boys basketball game against Minneapolis Roosevelt, a predominantly black school that has been staying in the locker room during the national anthem, last week. The school caught a lot of shit for the fans’ flag and promised to ...
High School Students Bring Trump 2020 Flag To Basketball Game Against Predominantly Black School
In an effort to taunt the visiting team, a group of Minnesota high school students brought a Trump 2020 flag to a boys basketball game Tuesday night. Considering that the road team, Minneapolis Roosevelt High School, has a predominantly black student body and has been staying in the locker room duri...
High School Football Team Redeems Itself With A Crazy Comeback One Year After Late-Game Collapse<em></em>
Last year, Minnesota high school St. Michael-Albertville made news when they gagged up a huge late lead by letting Maple Grove score 19 points in the game’s final 59 seconds. On Friday, STMA found redemption by pulling off a wild fourth-quarter comeback of their own that featured three consecutive o...
High School Pitcher Strikes Out Childhood Friend To Win Game, Immediately Hugs Him
Last Wednesday, an important Minnesota high school baseball game ended with a pitcher rushing home plate, but in a nice way. Mounds View pitcher Ty Koehn struck out Totino-Grace batter Jack Kocon to seal a three-hit shutout and 4-0 victory. Then, the two friends hugged. Aw!...
Minnesota High School Hockey Hair Remains Undefeated<em></em>
At this point, Minnesota’s best high school hockey teams are actively trying to get recognized on the All-Hockey Hair Team, and yet the quality of salad still hasn’t decreased. The 2018 class is absolutely brilliant. What you see above, if your eyes haven’t been blinded by its glory, came in at No. ...
Let's Play Broomball: The Other Ice Sport!
Any asshole can play hockey, but the delightful Minnesotan sport of BROOMBALL is for TRUE ICEBOYS. ...
OH MY GOD SNOWMOBILING RULES DROP EVERYTHING YOU HAVE NOW AND BUY A SNOWMOBILE OR ELSE SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE ONLINE LIKE A LOSER<em></em>
This week the Deadspin Snow Idiots visited the toddlin’ town of St. Bonifacius to ride some snowmobiles with friend of the blog Karl and his father-in-law, Jeff. And brother, lemme tell you: I have wasted my life. To think I went 41 years without knowing the feel of a growling snowhog between my amp...
Let’s Go Ice Fishing Like Fucking Morons<em></em>
I am fully aware that literally everyone in sports media did an ice fishing stunt here in Minnesota this week. But what if I told you that OUR ice fishing stunt was the bestest? Changes your whole outlook on matters now, doesn’t it?...
How To Be Cold<em></em>
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here. ...
Let’s Talk About This Weird Pope Chair<em></em>
Folks, this week’s Deadcast was taped LIVE from gorgeous Saint Paul, Minnesota. People came! There was beer! I swear I’m not making any of this up....
High School Football Team Wins Game By Scoring 19 Points In Final Minute
Minnesota’s Class 6A state quarterfinals featured one of the wildest endings to a football game you will ever see. Down 27-10 with 4:30 left to play against St. Michael-Albertville, Maple Grove capped off a 70-yard drive with a 30-yard touchdown pass from Curtis Haugen to Joe Raymon. That made it 27...
"Duck, Duck, Gray Duck" Isn't Just A Stupid Regionalism, It's A Better Game
A bunch of kids sit in a circle. One kid, who is “it,” walks the circumference, tapping the seated kids one by one, saying “duck, duck,” and then tapping a kid and saying something other than “duck,” and that kid has to chase and tag “it” before “it” makes it back around the circle to sit in the new...
<em></em>Minnesota High School Basketball Player Nails One-Handed Pirouette Buzzer-Beater
Champlin Park High School came into the opening game of the Minnesota state tournament undefeated, and they left undefeated, thanks to a last-gasp buzzer-beater from senior guard Sam Dubois. The Rebels came back from an eight-point halftime hole with the help of 30 points from McKinley Wright, who m...
The Best Of This Year's Minnesota High School Hockey Hair
This may come as a surprise, but Mahtomedi High School’s (Minn.) Dallas Duckson, the kid with a flow brighter than romaine lettuce, wasn’t even in the top five of the 2017 All Hockey Hair Team. John King, the judge of this roster, appears to prize the natural over the chemically enhanced....
Minnesota HS Hockey Team Prematurely Celebrates OT Championship Winner
The Hermantown (Minn.) bench spilled onto the ice after Tyler Watkins appeared to break a 3-3 tie in double overtime of Saturday’s Class A boys state championship hockey game, and the team threw off their gear in joy. But that gear tossing turned out to be a waste....
Legislative Auditor Smacks Down Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority Over Luxury Suite Freebies<em></em>
The Minnesota Legislative Auditor has released an extensive special report on the use of luxury suites at the publicly funded Minnesota Vikings stadium by commissioners of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, finding that commissioners “violated a core ethical principle” when they gave free ti...