Baseball
Duluth Marshall at Duluth Denfeld
Proctor at Moose Lake-Willow River
Cherry at Greenway
Rock Ridge at Deer River
McGregor at Chisholm
Barnum at Cook County
Two Harbors at South Ridge
Softball
Moose Lake-Willow River at Silver Bay
Two Harbors at South Ridge
Ely at Mountain Iron-Buhl
Chisago Lakes at North Branch
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.
Arena football league expansion teams make a hundred decisions on their way to opening day — logos, uniforms, venues, marketing, travel — but only a handful shape the identity of their team. The Minnesota Monsters made one of those decisions today, announcing the hiring of veteran line architect Derrizett Croop as offensive
Peter Niss died November 13, 2025 at his home in Mt. Royal Manor Apartments in Duluth. He was born in Minneapolis on October 19, 1946, and grew up in Duluth and at Timber Bay Lodge on Birch Lake near Ely. After attending Duluth East High School and Lawrence University in
Stability is the real product. If teams stay in their markets, if players get paid on time, if the community sees the league year after year, the perception changes. But you can’t fix 30 years of history overnight.
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Dean Lee Gagne. He died on November 17, 2025 at the age of 62 years old. Dean was a smart and loving man, but his life was marked by illness. Overcoming Hodgkin's disease, and a ruptured hernia,
