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Olympian Carrie Tollefson schools kids on fitness

Carrie Tollefson’s message to Duluth middle school students Tuesday was perseverance, and the U.S. Olympic track runner had plenty of examples to illustrate her point.

• Carrie Tollefson

Goalie recruit follows familiar path to UMD

Alex Fons is following in Kenny Reiter’s footsteps from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Duluth.

• Alex Fons
• UMD's 2012-13 freshman recruiting class

Book charts golf’s birth in Minnesota

If Rick Shefchik’s first-of-a-kind Minnesota golf book is never expanded, it certainly can stand on its merit as a marvelous historical record and photo narrative.

• “From Fields to Fairways: Classic Golf Clubs of Minnesota”
• Rick Shefchik

Corrected UMD hockey schedule released

A miscommunication with the Minnesota Duluth sports information office meant an incorrect 2012-13 men’s hockey schedule in Wednesday’s News Tribune. A corrected version, along with the 2012-13 UMD women’s hockey schedule, is below.

Schedule set for UMD’s final season in WCHA

Minnesota Duluth’s final season in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association will have 28 league games, including a Saturday-Sunday series at Nebraska-Omaha on Nov. 10-11 and a series at Minnesota on Feb. 22-23.

• 2012-13 UMD men's hockey schedule

Affable Twin Ports golf pro dies at 59

A stellar athlete who became one of the better-known golf figures in Northeastern Minnesota was remembered Friday for the compassion and dignity displayed in 20 years as a golf course manager.

• Anderson

Well-known Twin Ports golf pro dies at 59

Steve Anderson, who worked in golf management at four courses in Northeastern Minnesota, died this afternoon at St. Luke’s hospital after suffering a stroke Tuesday at home. He was 59.

• Steve Anderson

Prep newsmaker: Duluth Marshall’s Joey Kronzer is undefeated

Find an opponent’s weakness, pick on it and walk off the court with a victory.

• Prep Newsmaker: Joey Kronzer

College hockey: NCHC names director of hockey operations

Joe Novak said he got his dream job Tuesday and it won’t even require moving.

Elder Connolly signs pro contract

Five-hundred miles across the Baltic Sea will separate the Connolly brothers of Duluth next hockey season — Chris in Tampere, Finland, and Jack in Karlstad, Sweden.

• Connolly family

Columns

As newspapers shrink, so do the dwarf’s visits

The recorded voice you hear when calling the News Tribune sports department after hours is an employee long since gone from the company.

A dwarf’s Christmas sneer

One sister lives in Arizona now, one brother in North Carolina. They won’t be home for Christmas. The family’s two eldest children enjoy the weather where they are.

Christmas Dwarf shows soft side, bids farewell to John T.

There was a phone call on my birthday from a nursing home in St. Paul.