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Jim Simser, a Hall of Fame football coach at New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva and Fairmont, has passed away.

Cleveland High School's Erik Hermanson holds a rare combination of jobs: Band director and head football coach.

A traveler saw a lot, smiled a lot, marveled at times and experienced two days that will be remembered for a long time. It may sound odd, but what he witnessed happens all the time at high school sporting events, in Minnesota and beyond.

In Cottage Grove, it isn’t just the Park High School team that is using Guardian Caps in 2024. Every youth football player in town, starting with third-graders, is also wearing one. That’s approximately 1,000 kids.

When football teams from Stephen-Argyle and Norman County East/Ulen-Hitterdal played at TCO Performance Center in Eagan, the combined travel numbers for both teams were pretty crazy: 1,304 miles over 19 hours.

Crush Cancer Night in Byron was a huge success, with nearly $10,000 in donations and important lessons learned.

The Minnesota Basketball Coaches Association has named five men who will be inducted into the MBCA Hall of Fame on October 26.

On a night when the current Deer River football team recorded a big win, 125 former players were honored as part of the program's 100th season.

The Grand Rapids High School football team held its 10th Victory Day gathering, with special needs folks from the area invited to spend the morning with the varsity team and cheerleaders, doing drills and scoring touchdowns.

Eight years after leaving Wayzata, where the Trojans won three Prep Bowls, Brad Anderson became the head football coach at Benilde-St. Margaret’s.

After playing every football game on the road in 2022 while their oft-flooded field was being rebuilt, the Hancock Owls returned home on a day filled with memorable sights and sounds.

There was talk of something bad happening in New York City. I turned on the TV in the kitchen and saw a big black smoldering hole in the side of one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.