July 23, 2017
Who Is Pernell McPhee? Talk to the Passenger Next to You and Find Out
Who is Pernell McPhee?
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June 30, 2017
Free Throws Are a Given: Don’t Give Them Away
When I was in seventh grade, I entered my junior high school’s free-throw contest. Entrants shot 25 free throws and then, based on their total made, were seeded for match play competition—best of ten. In both seventh and eighth grades, I won the school championship. In ninth grade, I set the school record by swishing 25 straight shots in qualifying—but I was upset in match play.
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June 20, 2017
Opportunities Lead to Success for Gopher Women’s Teams
When I was growing up, few opportunities existed for women in athletics. I wondered which of my female classmates would have excelled in sports. Covering sports for the Minnesota Daily in the late 1960s, we rarely reported on female athletes because women’s teams did not exist.
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April 5, 2017
A Memorable Basketball Season 51 Years Ago Comes Back to Life in a Dusty Scrapbook
As the high school version of March Madness ended last weekend with the state basketball tournament, I came across a dusty scrapbook chronicling the Duluth East High School l965-66 season—51 years ago, more than a half century. Newspaper clippings were falling out, and I had to re-tape them in order to reconstruct that memorable experience.
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