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The Week in Commentary
A summary of this week's commentaries and some of the comments they generated.
Ali Bernard to represent Minn. in women's Olympic wrestling tryouts
An Olympic athlete from New Ulm resumes her quest for a gold medal this weekend. Ali Bernard, 26, is the only woman from Minnesota to qualify for the U.S. women's wrestling team tryouts in Iowa City this weekend.
Basketball coach Pat Summitt steps aside
Pat Summitt is stepping aside as Tennessee's women's basketball coach and taking the title of "head coach emeritus" with long-time assistant Holly Warlick being promoted to replace the sport's winningest coach.
The Minnesota Vikings ran into some of their most serious opposition yet on Monday night in their decade-long drive to get a new home for the NFL franchise in Minnesota on Monday night. A key state House committee rejected their proposal for a nearly $1 billion downtown Minneapolis stadium.