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Hockey family in the 'Heartland'

...wanted to generate more interest for our own little Utopia here," said Jensen, a Minnesotan native who followed legendary coach Herb Brooks' lead in having a hockey camp in northern Minnesota. "I decided I would like to see 4, 5, and 6-year-olds...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-07-13/hockey-family-heartland
News | Lifestyle
Acorns & icons

...probably be seeing them a year from now. It's a running war."He'll be finding acorns forever."Grant, the legendary coach of the Vikings, and Lessard, the former state senator and a namesake of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council...

http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2011-10-06/acorns-amp-icons
Outdoors
OTHER OPINION: Why didn't they speak up?

...State's trustees appropriately are launching a review into why no one - from the university's janitors to its legendary coach to its president - didn't do more to stop what appears to be the serial victimization of boys. Those at fault must...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2011-11-10/other-opinion-why-d
Other Opinion
Kentucky, Kansas to meet in power-program final

...Self; a high-stakes meeting between one team whose founder invented the game and another that likes to claim its legendary coach perfected it.Kentucky (37-2), in search of its eighth national title but its first since 1998, has five...

http://brainerddispatch.com/sports/college/2012-04-02/kentucky-kansas-meet-power
College | Sports
Paterno's pride in Nittany Lions doesn't waver

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Joe Paterno is a little cranky these days. You can see that in the piece of aged barn wood he calls a face, which is gouged and scored by the 50-year effort of trying to hack a little

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/111800/nsp_1118000012.shtml
Sports
Doherty gets first No. 1 as coach

...did it with the Tar Heels on Dec. 15, 1997. Not many programs have had such a smooth transition after losing a legendary coach. The Tar Heels were to two Final Fours in three years after Guthridge took over for Dean Smith, and now Doherty...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/020601/nsp_0206010006.shtml
Sports
Preparing for bowls can be a mystifying experience

...were getting ready to play South Carolina in the 1969 Peach Bowl, and Bowden put in a call to Darrell Royal, the legendary coach at Texas. It wasn't to wish Royal a Merry Christmas. "We were an option team," Bowden recalled recently...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/122701/nsp_1227010029.shtml
Sports
Unbeaten Gophers didn't go to a bowl in '41

...intramural stuff probably." Minnesota went 11-0 in the Big Ten, 16-0 overall, in the 1940-41 seasons under legendary coach Bernie Bierman. The "Silver Fox" guided Minnesota to seven Big Ten and five national titles and five undefeated...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/120702/spo_1207020014.html
Sports
Brainerd senior is believed to be the first Warrior cross country runner to sign with a Division I school.

...coach (Plasencia) every week and we'd talk about how the team is doing. On my visit, Roy Griak, the (Gophers) legendary coach, gave the tour. I hung out with the team and went to a hockey game. "I'll have a lot more free time now that...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/112203/spo_1122030001.shtml
Sports
Just say no

...Haugen and defensive coach Gary Fasching. Zauhar said Gagliardi keeps everyone loose by telling a few jokes but the legendary coach knows his football despite being 77 years old. "Granted, he's getting older but he's still very sharp," Zauhar...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/112903/spo_1129030045.shtml
Sports

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