MM Sports Report 8/30/22 Hello and welcome to the Midwest Mountain Sports Report, where the air is thin, and the only coasts are lake shores. Right now in the great state of Minnesota, the temperatures are easing their way back down for autumn, the smell of State Fair corndogs is in the air, and yours truly …
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A Slumbering Giant
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 6/11/22 I’ve never spent more time in my life in the month of June thinking about hockey. After their second playoff sweep of the 2022 Stanley Cup Series, the Avalanche are 12-2 in the postseason, and waiting to see who comes out of the East. They’ll either face the up-and-coming …
Game 3: The Nazem Kadri Experience
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 5/22/22 You’ve Got to Pay the Piper Any Colorado Avalanche fan who anticipated a 2022 postseason sweep of the St. Louis Blues soon realized after the first period of Game 2 that we would have no such luck this year. After an absolutely humiliating Game 1 for St. Louis, during …
Guess Who’s Back? Back Again?
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 4/13/22 Just like Slim Shady blew the top off of Marshall Mathers and got him gold and platinum records when it mattered most, I’ve returned to dish sports from coast to coast, nah, we’re Midwest those oceans are toasted from the acid dripping into the waves from the toxic climate and …
Divisional Round Day 2, Last-Minute Picks
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 1/23/22 Well, they did it. The road dogs both bested the number 1 seeds by a field goal. Incredible. Turns out that maybe a week of rest is just enough time to take your eyes off the prize. At least, it’s enough time off to think about maybe letting your special …
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Divisional Round, Saturday
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 1/21/22 Welcome to the Divisional Round weekend! Doesn’t quite drip from the tongue like the alliterative “Wild Card Weekend”, but the NFL has never been the organization known for their expertise in names. I’m looking at you, Washington Football Team. (I’d like to submit “The Washington Gridlock” as their franchise …
Wild Card Monday
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 1/17/22 Los Angeles Rams vs. Arizona Carinals (Mon. 7:15 CT) (Los Angeles -4) As if one more regular-season game made the season feel exceptionally abnormal, we now have a Monday Night playoff game. Perhaps the NFL has done this before. Maybe we even had one last season. I’ve been in a …
Wild Card Weekend #2
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 1/15/22 Welcome to the Sunday Edition of the Midwest Mountain Sports Report! The dust has settled in day 1 of AFC contention, with the spoils earned by the Bengals and the Bills. That also makes me two-for-two, which doesn’t exactly make me Nostradamus as most of the viewing public had penciled …
Wild Card Weekend #1
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 1/14/22 Welcome to NFL Wildcard Week! It’s been a few months since my last post, and I do apologize for the lapse in coverage. Not so coincidentally, I started a sports podcast of the same name with my co-host Chad, and that directly resulted in more effort spent in front of …
Ten Things I Learned This Weekend (Well, just five)
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 9/28/21 The Vikings have Come Home One of the finer characteristics of a local paper, compared to the “national brand” of sports media is the former’s ability to bathe the town in self-congratulatory praise after a big win. And my, how the Vikings certainly earned a big win. After a back-and-forth …
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