The government center in downtown Minneapolis — where people gathered outside after the guilty verdict was brought down on Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd — is sandwiched between skyscrapers. I look up at the buildings, taking in their pointless grandeur. I don’t often find myself in this part of the city. I’m never feeling empty enough.
The last time I was here in a meaningful capacity was for the Occupy protests in 2011. I didn’t mean to. I stumbled into it after a date, jarringly out of my element.
The last time I was here in a meaningful capacity was for the Occupy protests in 2011. I didn’t mean to. I stumbled into it after a date, jarringly out of my element.
- 4/21/2021
- by Safy-Hallan Farah
- Rollingstone.com
For the last four decades or so, Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game has been preceded by the Home Run Derby. The sport’s best(-ish) sluggers step to the plate and launch long ball after long ball into stands of “ooo”-ing and “ahh”-ing spectators. While watching towering shots threaten to shatter the lights of the stadium makes for fleeting entertainment, the problem with the Home Run Derby is that the grandest of long balls only occur in the wild. Home runs are best appreciated in the context of a game, which often gains added meaning from a season-long marathon, or even a 100-year championship drought.
Look at Kirby Puckett’s 1991 World Series walk-off shot that set the table for a Twins’ title, or Kirk Gibson’s one-legged Game 1 bomb that, in his only plate appearance, launched the ’88 Dodgers to a pennant, or even Kyle Schwarber, the greatest...
Look at Kirby Puckett’s 1991 World Series walk-off shot that set the table for a Twins’ title, or Kirk Gibson’s one-legged Game 1 bomb that, in his only plate appearance, launched the ’88 Dodgers to a pennant, or even Kyle Schwarber, the greatest...
- 6/14/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Thompson on Hollywood
For the last four decades or so, Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game has been preceded by the Home Run Derby. The sport’s best(-ish) sluggers step to the plate and launch long ball after long ball into stands of “ooo”-ing and “ahh”-ing spectators. While watching towering shots threaten to shatter the lights of the stadium makes for fleeting entertainment, the problem with the Home Run Derby is that the grandest of long balls only occur in the wild. Home runs are best appreciated in the context of a game, which often gains added meaning from a season-long marathon, or even a 100-year championship drought.
Look at Kirby Puckett’s 1991 World Series walk-off shot that set the table for a Twins’ title, or Kirk Gibson’s one-legged Game 1 bomb that, in his only plate appearance, launched the ’88 Dodgers to a pennant, or even Kyle Schwarber, the greatest...
Look at Kirby Puckett’s 1991 World Series walk-off shot that set the table for a Twins’ title, or Kirk Gibson’s one-legged Game 1 bomb that, in his only plate appearance, launched the ’88 Dodgers to a pennant, or even Kyle Schwarber, the greatest...
- 6/14/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Consider, if you will, a sliding scale of celebrities. On one end of this spectrum are those who are still alive, including but not limited to: Jennifer Aniston, Justin Bieber, nine-tenths of the original cast of Beverly Hills, 90210. On the other end are those who are dead, also including but not limited to: Elvis Presley, John Belushi, and (arguably) Tupac.
On this scientific scale, John F. Kennedy Jr. falls somewhere in between Judy Garland and former Minnesota Twins center fielder Kirby Puckett; all of which is to say, he is extremely,...
On this scientific scale, John F. Kennedy Jr. falls somewhere in between Judy Garland and former Minnesota Twins center fielder Kirby Puckett; all of which is to say, he is extremely,...
- 7/3/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Though Game 7s should be, by definition, the most dramatic games in sports, Game 6s have a better reputation for classic World Series games. The ball dribbled through Bill Buckner’s legs in a Game 6. Carlton Fisk waved his home run fair in a Game 6. Kirby Puckett hit his walk-off home run in a Game 6. Last night, St. Louis Cardinal David Freese, who hit only 10 home runs during the season, saved his team’s season with a two-strike, two-out triple in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie the score and then hit a solo home run in the...
- 10/28/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
Minnesota. Land of 10,000 Lakes. Birthplace of Bob Dylan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winona Ryder and John Madden. Site of great accomplishments by Kirby Puckett, Prince, Kevin Garnett and Garrison Keillor. So cold in the winter that going outside is discouraged lest the fluid in your eyeballs freeze. Yes, Minnesota is all this and so much more, and on this day in 1858, the territory officially joined up with the rest of the United States as the 32nd state admitted to the Union.
First explored by Scandanavian adventurers and inhabited by the Ojibwe and Dakota tribes of Native Americans, Minnesota began its formal formation in 1820 with the establishment of Fort Snelling (the area that would eventually morph into the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul). Because it sat at the northernmost point of the Mississippi River, it became an important area for trading as well as hunting and fishing. The railroad boom in...
First explored by Scandanavian adventurers and inhabited by the Ojibwe and Dakota tribes of Native Americans, Minnesota began its formal formation in 1820 with the establishment of Fort Snelling (the area that would eventually morph into the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul). Because it sat at the northernmost point of the Mississippi River, it became an important area for trading as well as hunting and fishing. The railroad boom in...
- 5/11/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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