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Minnesota will get a chance to make a statement when it opens the season with a home game against Ohio State on Sept. 2.

Dalvin Cook is a year older and coming off a 356-touch season. Can he carry the load over 17 games? And which veteran's spot may be in jeopardy?

Former Hopkins standout Joe Klecker, the son of Minnesota distance running stars, shook off near-misses in his career to gain a spot in the Olympic 10,000 meters.

The Twins took a lead into the bottom of the eighth inning before Chicago scored five runs against Jorge Alcala and Hansel Robles.

Sweden didn't have to bunker down on defense against the Americans this time.

Cat Osterman looked ahead, not behind, in the start of the United States' quest to regain the Olympic softball gold medal, 13 years after she lost the championship game.

Giannis Antetokounmpo had the Larry O'Brien Trophy in one arm, the NBA Finals MVP trophy in the other and there was a cigar on the table in front of him.

The trip felt like being an extra in a really long shooting of one of the great ESPN commercials, where athletes and mascots wear their uniforms around the office and cafeteria.

Roger Staubach and Drew Pearson are always open to new ways of commemorating their famous Hail Mary touchdown that gave the Dallas Cowboys a playoff victory over the Minnesota Vikings in 1975.