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Building our best local female athletes list (submit your favorites!)
Chloe Johnson. Howie / HowieHanson.com

Building our best local female athletes list (submit your favorites!)

DULUTH – I’m working on a new sports column for HowieHanson.com, asking a classic Northland barstool question: Who are the Duluth area’s all-time top 10 high school female athletes? It’s the kind of list that’s half fact, half folklore — and all fun to argue about. I’

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Our 2025 Twin Ports Athlete of the Year: C.J. Ham
C.J. and Stephanie, on the day he proposed in Canal Park. Howie / HowieHanson.com

Our 2025 Twin Ports Athlete of the Year: C.J. Ham

When C.J. stopped and dropped to one knee, we captured every second from twenty feet away, giggling like kids on a prank. Steph didn’t spot us until after she said yes and C.J. waved us over. All four of us cracked up at how covert it all felt.

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Thomas rallies to win CCC Invitational; Schnobrich captures senior crown

CLOQUET — Bennett Thomas capped a brilliant final round with a two-under-par 70 on Sunday to surge past the field and claim the CCC Invitational championship flight by two shots at Cloquet Country Club. Thomas, who started the day two strokes off the pace, posted a 54-hole total of even-par 220.

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Morgan Park’s ‘Goozie’ Hines punching his way from north woods to UFC spotlight
Hines led the customary coin flip ceremony before the Duluth Harbor Monsters-Eau Claire Axeman Arena League football game Saturday night at Duluth Arena at the DECC. Ben Sunne / For HowieHanson.com

Morgan Park’s ‘Goozie’ Hines punching his way from north woods to UFC spotlight

Alvin “Goozie” Hines — a 265-pound blue-collar bruiser with a heart as big as his fists — is living the professional sports dream, chasing UFC glory while staying loyal to his Northland roots.

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Harbor Monsters keep rolling, with Duluth daring to dream of a repeat
Ben Sunne / Up North Anything Photography. For HowieHanson.com

Harbor Monsters keep rolling, with Duluth daring to dream of a repeat

DULUTH — Well, here we are again. A bunch of local toughs in shoulder pads are turning this iron-and-water town into a summer football hotbed, and wouldn’t you know it — your Harbor Monsters are sitting at 5-2, breathing heavy down the necks of the Iowa Woo and the rest of

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A taste of Duluth hospitality at the Lyric — the gold standard for downtown dining
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A taste of Duluth hospitality at the Lyric — the gold standard for downtown dining

By HOWIE HANSON DULUTH — Todd Fedora was just making his way back to the office Tuesday afternoon when he found himself in the kind of scene that reminds you why Duluth’s brand of hospitality is something special. Fedora, a longtime community leader and banker whose workplace is tucked neatly

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