Clare Foley knew that her father, Dan, had a good handle on his depression when he was able to embarrass her at her track meets again. “He’s a people person, but when his depression was at its worst he became very isolated,” says Clare, who was part of the College of St. Benedict track team. “I was in college when he really got more on top of his depression for the first time. We’d be at my meets and he’d go out of his way to talk to the judges. You’re not supposed to do that ..."

Neko Case could have played it safe. Her lustrous voice and bewitching stage presence made her the unquestioned queen of the twang-rock scene, and she could have carved out a nice little niche singing Loretta Lynn covers, vamping with side projects like The New Pornographers and cashing royalty checks every time the phrase “alt-country chanteuse” appeared in her magazine profiles. But Case chose a different path, shedding her rustic roots in favor of a more diverse approach that defies all atte

Las Vegas has a long and complicated history with the National Football League. In the realm of mutually beneficial yet often dysfunctional relationships of the last half-century, you have Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Batman and the Joker, Terrell Owens and his ego and Las Vegas and the NFL. The suits at the NFL have long maintained that they’re shocked—shocked!—to discover that people are gambling on their pure-as-the-driven-slush product. Thanks in large part to t

The historical overlap between baseball and popular music is pretty grim. For every poignant, evocative song like Bob Dylan’s “Catfish,” you’ve got a thousand like John Fogerty’s “Centerfield,” beaten to death by ballpark PAs and TV highlight reels. Then along comes The Baseball Project, a four-piece supergroup comprising indie veterans Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. They’ve cranked out a mash note to the grand old game, warts and all, touching on heroes and s

"When you're doing 180 heading into a curve, it's you and God," says the Rev. Joe Bubbico, explaining why there are few atheists in race cars. "You can either realize that, or you can get yourself into more trouble if you think you're on your own out there." Bubbico visited the Las Vegas Motor Speedway last weekend to witness the pageantry, fervor and sometimes wretched excess of the world of NASCAR, and to spread the good word through his own passion, Racing With Jesus Ministries. "Auto racin

All those late nights in April and May spent watching the Minnesota Wild’s astonishing West Coast playoff run left many bleary-eyed observers across North America rubbing their eyes and wondering the same thing: What the hell is it? On fleet forward Marian Gaborik, it looks like a cheetah. On plodding veteran Andrew Brunette, maybe more like a three-toed sloth. Of course, it could be a meerkat, a chinchilla, or a bloodthirsty panda. We’re talking, of course, about the Wild logo, that mammalian

To all those people whose mothers told them, “You’ll never amount to anything sitting on your ass all day playing those damn video games!”—this one’s for you. The “Robolounge” is in a dank corner of the Xcel Energy Center. Its denizens, Michael “Buddha” Novak and Tim Dufour, run the robotic cameras used to dramatic effect in telecasts of Wild hockey games on FOX Sports Net. These are cameras that go where no human camera operator could realistically go. Novak and Dufour are a pair of thirtysome

There are 167 retired numbers in baseball. Most from players. Some from the same player. Several from managers. A couple from owners. And there's one that spans baseball, honoring one of the most important figures of all time. So who are these folks? Which team has the most? And which three franchises have yet to post a number up on a wall for no other player to use in the future? To answer these questions and more, Patrick Donnelly and the folks at SportsData LLC created this infographic ...

Once upon a time, there was a boy who had everything a boy could ever want: a loving family, plenty of friends, a roof over his head, food on the table, clothes on his back. And he was happy. More or less. Sure, he worried a lot, mostly about things he couldn’t control — he worried about loved ones dying, or his house burning down. But everyone worries about those things, right? Perfectly normal. That boy grew up. And as a young man, still, he had everything a young man could want ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Paul Millsap left the game to get stitches, then came back in time to help the Denver Nuggets stop the bleeding and get a big win. Millsap had 25 points, five rebounds and five steals, Jamal Murray added 18 and the Nuggets had a 35-point third quarter in a 103-101 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — If the pitching-starved Minnesota Twins are going to continue their surprising run to begin the 2017 season, they’re going to need Jose Berrios to be a key part of their starting rotation. So far, so good for Berrios and the Twins. The 22-year-old right-hander allowed two hits and struck out 11 over 7 2/3 innings as the Twins beat the Colorado Rockies 2-0 on Thursday night, salvaging a split of an interleague doubleheader between the first-place teams in the AL Central and NL West.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Zach Parise and the Minnesota Wild have beaten teams a lot of ways this season. On Sunday, the Detroit Red Wings gave one of the league’s best power plays too many chances. Parise scored twice and Devan Dubnyk made 30 saves to help the Western Conference-leading Wild beat the Red Wings 6-3.