Not everyone enjoys watching golf, and that’s understandable.

On a court inside the New Ulm Recreation Center earlier this week, Ryan Hulke encouraged six young basketball players as they went through an hour of ball-handling and shooting drills. It’s a little less intense than a high-school practice, but he also makes sure he gets his point across.

Former Minnesota State men’s hockey player Teddy Blueger has re-signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the team announced on Tuesday.

In his third and final season with the Mankato MoonDogs, Tyler Lesley is attracting some attention.

It was a bit strange to see Sunday’s men’s championship at Wimbledon decided in a fifth-set tiebreaker, wasn’t it?

MANKATO — Joel Johnson had been in this position before at the annual Loren Krugel golf tournament.

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Kevin Buisman respects those football supporters who offer criticism and complaints about Blakeslee Stadium, but one morning, when he arrives at his office, the Minnesota State athletic director would love to see a long line of problem-solvers who had the funding solution to a multi-million-…

Aaron Lund has been in the track and field coaching business for 12 years, including the last three in Los Angeles, when he decided it was time to come home to Minnesota.

In the land of seemingly 10,000 amateur baseball teams, a new one has splashed down in south-central Minnesota this season.

Going into the last high-school season, the Mankato East boys basketball team had some big holes to fill. Coming off a state-tournament appearance, the Cougars need to replace a bunch of seniors, including Damani Hayes, Uhana Ochan and Edmond Oyet.

Matt Schmidt recalls his first job as a college athletic trainer and having to deal with a baseball team that had seven players miss time with pulled hamstrings in the same season.

MANKATO — A first-inning momentum shift at Franklin Rogers Park lifted the Mankato MoonDogs to an 8-3 Northwoods League victory over Bismarck Tuesday night before a crowd of 1,270.

MANKATO — After starting the second half of the Northwoods League season with an impressive four-game road sweep of Bismarck, the Mankato MoonDogs seemed ready to tangle with their main nemesis the Willmar Stingers.

There was a pretty impressive soccer performance over the weekend.

The Twins enter the All-Star break in an enviable position.

WILLMAR — Josh Elvir and Dayton Dooney belted two hits apiece but it wasn't  nearly enough as the Willmar Stingers defeated the Mankato MoonDogs 8-2 on Sunday in a Northwoods League baseball game.

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association has existed as a conference since 1951 and has a rich history over nearly seven decades.

The rain, the wind and a two-goal deficit weren’t enough to knock the Mankato United Soccer Club out of the playoff hunt.

You don’t like your conference, but you’re not sure what to do about it?

Tanner Craig of the Mankato MoonDogs steps into the batting cage and places his feet precisely where he wants them.

NORTH MANKATO — Laing Harrow may be a long way from his native country of Australia, but Mankato is definitely home for him at the moment.

A disappointing first half of the Northwoods League season came to an end Tuesday night for the Mankato MoonDogs as Eau Claire rolled to an 11-3 victory in front of 989 fans at Franklin Rogers Park.

Minnesota State and six other universities are moving forward “expeditiously” toward a new men’s college hockey conference, the consultant working with the schools said on Monday.

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association in its current incarnation is a collection of left-behind programs cobbled together when college hockey’s Great Schism began to take place in 2011.

Jorge Polanco is the first Minnesota Twins player elected an All-Star starter since Joe Mauer was a catcher. He’s the first Twins shortstop so elected since Roy Smalley 40 years ago.

The accolades are still coming for Gustavus Adolphus volleyball standout Nora Holtan, and this most recent may be her best.

Each year’s annual trip into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is an excuse to try out at least one new piece of equipment. Lightweight, high quality backpack camping equipment is often both high technology and expensive.