The Twins are hoping Joe Mauer, who was named minor league player of the year in 2003, will be their full-time catcher next year. But Mauer's knee injury means he faces a much greater risk of developing arthritis at some point in his career.
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The Minnesota Twins have reached one-year contract agreements with five players, including a $5 million deal with right fielder Jacque Jones. Monday was a key deadline for the team, which needed to sign players or agree to salary arbitration. The Twins offered arbitration to four other players, including Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana. Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer talked with Twins General Manager Terry Ryan.
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When former Minnesota Viking Carl Eller was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this summer, he vowed to use the honor to lead young African-American males "toward the great colleges and universities of our nation, not to prisons and jail cells." Eller will be honored during the half-time ceremony at Sunday's Vikings game.
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Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said the players' union should change its rules regarding testing for steroids or he'll encourage government intervention. Recent revelations of steroid abuse confirm what many believe is the tainting of a sport heavily dependent on records and fans' goodwill.
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It's been more than 30 years since the historic Title IX legislation forced educational institutions to start paying attention to women's athletics, but two of the leading authorities on women in sports say they still face resistance when they make the case for equal treatment. Mary Jo Kane, professor and director of the University of Minnesota Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, and Donna Lopiano, the Executive Director of the Women's Sports Foundation, discussed the history and the future of women's athletics this October in Minneapolis. The event was part of the U of M's "Great Conversations" series.
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The three Indiana Pacers players who fought with fans during a game with the Detroit Pistons are appealing the length of their suspensions. Midmorning takes a look at the psychology of fan behavior and what fans and teams can do to bring back the concept sportsmanship.
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From golfing in the arctic circle to 22-day roller coaster marathons, acclaimed sportswriter Steve Rushin is out with a new book on extreme recreation. "The Caddie was a Reindeer" is a compilation of Rushin's tender odes to his old favorites like basketball and hockey, as well as off-the-wall explorations of off-the-map sports. What drives a person to go zipping through the mountains of Germany at 180 miles per hour, anyway?
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The Minnesota Twins insisted they were a far
better team than the one steamrolled out of last year's division
series by the New York Yankees. And they might have been.
A year later, though, the result was the same: Yankees in four.
Season over.
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Backed by Derek Jeter's three RBIs and a relentless offense,
Brown threw six strong innings to lead the Yankees past the
frustrated Minnesota Twins 8-4 on Friday night for a 2-1 lead in
the best-of-five AL playoff series.
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Twins righthander Carlos Silva will make the first post season start of his major league career tonight when New York plays Minnesota at the Metrodome. The playoff series is tied at one game apiece. Silva will have to contend with a formidable Yankee lineup on the field, while off the field there is troubling news from his homeland. Silva is one of five Twins players from Venezuela where the economic conditions continue to deteriorate. Ransom kidnappings are on the rise and for the last month kidnappers have held the mother of Detroit Tigers pitcher Ugueth Urbina. Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer spoke with Brian Ellsworth, a free-lance reporter based in Caracas, Venezuela.
