This is the day everyone has been waiting for. It’s a day that has existed only in dreams for many of the kids taking to the ice in the title games Saturday at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. For a state that almost treats hockey as a religion, this is as close as...
I’ve learned throughout my years of covering sports that it’s not wise to leave until the buzzer has sounded. In 2005, the Wisconsin football team blocked a Minnesota punt in the final seconds and recovered it in the endzone to complete an improbable win. A few weeks prior to that, the Badgers sacked Kyle Orton...
Thursday was a pretty fun day at the Minnesota state boys hockey tournament. It was a long day and I was wiped out at the end, but I was happy to be able to grab some nice images and beat some insane deadlines for the last game. Duluth East and Hill-Murray faced off in the...
The last time I was blogging from the Minnesota boys state hockey tournament, I was not even a week removed from being laid off from my job as a photojournalist at the Duluth News Tribune. At the time, I really didn’t know what was ahead for me or what path I would take in life....
