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SEATTLE — Granted, there aren't a lot of people walking around with sweatshirts sporting their favorite conference. The hardcore college sports fans' moods are traditionally dictated by how well their schools, not their leagues perform. But if there is any sense of Pac-12 pride left, it's been whittled to the size of an amoeba. At least in the revenue sports. Call it the Pack Up and Go Home ...

How do we do it during March Madness? How do we manage to bury our heads in the sand while simultaneously painting our faces in school colors? We are either magicians or contortionists. How else do you explain our ability to raucously stand up and clap our hands while we’re holding our noses at the same time to avoid the stench emanating from the cesspool otherwise known as college basketball? ...

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Whether Bud Grant was a football coach who happened to hunt and fish, or was a hunter and fisherman who happened to coach football, was difficult at times to tell. Retired Minnesota state Sen. Bob Lessard first met Bud when Lessard, of International Falls, visited the Vikings Bloomington offices in 1967, shortly after Bud was named the team's coach. "He didn't know me. I just went to the ...

Former Patriots linebacker Dont’a Hightower didn’t play last season, and he won’t be playing any NFL football moving forward. On Tuesday, Hightower officially announced his retirement after playing nine seasons in New England. The 33-year-old shared his news in an article he published on The Players’ Tribune. “They say time flies in this league. Boy, they’re not lying. Today, I am officially ...

Dont’a Hightower is making a quiet exit to a memorable career with the New England Patriots. The veteran linebacker who did not play last season announced his retirement from the NFL in an essay posted on the Players’ Tribune website. It ends a decade-long run in New England that included three Super Bowl rings and a pair of Pro Bowl selections.

Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died Tuesday. He was 80.

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