TUESDAY
Boys Basketball
Hermantown at Princeton, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball
Hermantown at North Branch, 7 p.m.
Boys Hockey
Duluth Marshall at Hermantown, 7 p.m.
Girls Hockey
Proctor-Hermantown at Hibbing, 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
Girls Hockey
Delano at Hermantown-Proctor, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball
Grand Rapids at Hermantown, 7:15 p.m.
SATURDAY
Girls Hockey
Proctor-Hermantown at South St. Paul, 1 p.m.
Boys Hockey
Mahtomedi at Hermantown, 1 p.m.
His stat line towered over the league: a .383 batting average, 17 home runs, 68 RBIs, 23 doubles, three triples, 48 runs scored, 28 walks, and 15 stolen bases over 52 games. His OPS landed at 1.252, powered by a .471 on-base percentage and a .781 slugging percentage.
This isn’t corporate sports media. This isn’t fluff. Howie Sports is Independent. Local. Unfiltered. Fifty years in the game — telling you who’s hot, who’s not, and who needs a swift kick in the butt.
If tourism funding is now driven by measurable return, then measurement should not stop at the application stage. Duluth should see which organizations applied, which received funding, how proposals scored against criteria, what outcomes were promised and what results were delivered one year later.
For now, the political formula in Minnesota’s 8th District remains remarkably consistent. Duluth votes. The Iron Range votes. Then the rest of northern Minnesota votes. And the rest of northern Minnesota is usually enough.
If Kirill Kaprizov ever gets a true sniper riding shotgun -- Brock Boeser? -- the rest of the Western Conference might suddenly discover something Minnesota fans have suspected for a while now. The Wild are closer than they look.
Duluth and St. Louis County are not asking for luxury investments. They are asking for help maintaining systems — water treatment plants, shoreline protection, waste management infrastructure — whose costs exceed what local taxpayers alone can reasonably sustain.
