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Rookie of the Year Nominees...

Sunday, 25 September 2011 03:00

(Photos - 2011 ROY Nominees Ruth Brennan Morrey and Stephanie Peterson.)

MMA Nominees - Results were scrutinized and five first-year multisporters * were perceived by the nine-member MMA Selection Committee as being sufficiently competitive with their veteran elite peers to warrant Rookie of the Year consideration. Each candidate needed to turn in at least three "competitive" efforts, i.e. wherein they demonstrated "elite" potential, and to have performed with reasonable consistency.

Four of those five candidates are this year's official ROY nominees. With their 2011 results, they are (in alphabetical order):...

Fake Newtons & Dissing Taylor Swift...

Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:00

(Photo - Joey Hetherton, who was on TV and in a few movies in the 60s. She is about 90 now and doesn't look as good as she used to.)

WHERE ENTERTAINERS GO TO DIE - A bazillion folks visit Branson every year.

And why shouldn

VOTE FOR RACE OF THE YEAR....

Monday, 19 September 2011 14:42

Voting for TRIATHLETES CHOICE 2011 RACE OF THE YEAR will start on Tuesday, September 20. The Voting Buttons in the sidebar ad sections will be activated then.

Cloudy Future...

Sunday, 18 September 2011 03:00

run By Jim Rueda

Mankato Free Press Sports Editor (September 13, 2011)

NORTH MANKATO

Seriously Cool Stuff....

Monday, 12 September 2011 03:00

* BOUS STUFF - When Patrick Parish left T2 on Saturday at the 7th annual Best of the US National Championship in Gulf Shores, AL, which incidentally is a totally bitchin' place, he was in 4th place, exactly three minutes behind the leader, Louisiana's Ben Hall, and 2:08 behind eventual winner and Minnesota teammate Matthew Payne. Patrick then laid down a brilliant 33:20 10K split, which allowed him to overtake National Classers Hall, James Haycraft (NC) and Colin Riley (FL) and come within 12 seconds of catching Payne. The Minnesotans were the stars of the show, each blowing the doors off the previous race record (2:02:23) and setting Olympic distances PRs: 1:52:45 & 1:52:57.