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Tom Powers: Flip Saunders was just like us, and that’s what we miss most
Tom Powers Minnesota general manager and head coach Flip Saunders talks by phone to Kentucky center Karl-Anthony Towns at the NBA Draft Party at Target Center in Minneapolis on Thursday, June 25,...
View ArticleTom Powers: Vikings add to heartbreak with missed ‘chip shot’
Despite all odds, the Vikings found a way. Somehow, some way, they reached through the arctic air, stretched and twisted their iced-over, seized-up muscles, grunted one last time … and tore your heart...
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Tom Powers: Gophers earn more patience with ‘moral victory’
If patience really is a virtue, then Minnesota sports fans someday will go straight to heaven. They have sat and watched, unruffled for the most part, through endless rebuilding projects. They have sat...
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Tom Powers: Elegant figure skating could use a shot of drama
Rohene Ward, left, with current U.S. champ Jason Brown (who skates to Ward's choreography) and Kori Ade, Brown's coach. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Figure Skating) Show Caption of Expand On Feb 23, 1994,...
View ArticleTom Powers: Wild’s ‘process’ creating defense-first Yeobots
Perhaps the second half of the Wild’s season will wind up labeled: “The Offense Awakens – Revenge of the Yeobots!” Currently, the Wild couldn’t score into a soccer goal — from five feet — with no...
View ArticleTom Powers: In two years, Super Bowl madness will be all ours
It’s almost time to get out the togas. That annual orgy of wretched excess, brought to you by the NFL ownership cabal, is just two years away from our humble tundra. Soon local bakeries will be...
View ArticleTom Powers: Will firing of Mike Yeo salvage Wild’s season?
After the awful loss to the Boston Bruins, Wild players didn’t even pretend to have any answers. Just like many of them didn’t even pretend to give a damn during the game itself. Something had to give....
View ArticleTom Powers: John Torchetti loosens the reins, and Wild seem reborn
There is a theory that coaches are like diapers. They should be changed often, and for the same reason. That might be an overstatement yet clearly there is a finite shelf life for the majority of them....
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Tom Powers: No rentals needed in Wild’s No-Man’s Land
The Wild currently reside in that eerie, dreary place known as limbo. Limbo is, according to the dictionary, “an intermediate place or condition between two extremes.” Taken in a religious context, it...
View ArticleTom Powers: Gophers’ Richard Pitino may be next to sizzle on local hot seat
Hey, what does it take for a coach to get fired around here, anyway? Many Minnesotans probably would reply: Way too much. It’s an odd relationship. An otherwise abnormally polite and genteel citizenry...
View ArticleTom Powers: Vikings add to heartbreak with missed ‘chip shot’
Despite all odds, the Vikings found a way. Somehow, some way, they reached through the arctic air, stretched and twisted their iced-over, seized-up muscles, grunted one last time … and tore your heart...
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Tom Powers: Gophers earn more patience with ‘moral victory’
If patience really is a virtue, then Minnesota sports fans someday will go straight to heaven. They have sat and watched, unruffled for the most part, through endless rebuilding projects. They have sat...
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Tom Powers: Elegant figure skating could use a shot of drama
Rohene Ward, left, with current U.S. champ Jason Brown (who skates to Ward's choreography) and Kori Ade, Brown's coach. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Figure Skating)Show Caption of Expand On Feb 23, 1994,...
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Tom Powers: The Twins will be decent – no strings attached
Minnesota Twins second baseman Brian Dozier gets a hand shake from third base coach Gene Glynn as he rounds third to for home after hitting a lead off home run against the Baltimore Orioles in the...
View ArticleTom Powers: Wild saved from the demons, for now
The Wild had a near-death experience on Saturday. And it wasn’t one in which the beautiful light was shining and the angelic music was playing. Instead, the devil was coming straight at them, wielding...
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Tom Powers: Ex-Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom’s last ‘ghost walk’ is one he...
Minnesota Wild left wing Zach Parise pumps his fist after scoring one of his three first-period goals in Thursday night's win over the Calgary Flames at Excel Energy Center. (Pioneer Press: John...
View ArticleTom Powers: Fasten seatbelts, Twins … it could be a bumpy ride
Former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda one day looked around the clubhouse and shook his head: “We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers,” he said. “Back when I broke in, we had one...
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Tom Powers: Minnesota Twins are merely adding to our misery
Listen, nobody is in the mood for this. And nobody has time. People can fret only so much. There’s just a finite amount of misery to go around. With the Wild falling face-first into the playoffs, the...
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Tom Powers: Wild suddenly wake with season on the brink
The Wild's Jason Pominville starts his celebration after scoring the go-ahead goal in the second period on Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen, to make it 3-2 in the second period, as the Minnesota Wild...
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Tom Powers: Wild’s late-night snooze could mean lights out
There are going to be a lot of cranky people this morning. The Wild were doing pretty well until about 10:30 p.m., which usually is when they have that last glass of warm milk and slip under the...
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