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

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

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

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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Howie: The four-game homestand Strawberry and Morris came to town

Howie: The four-game homestand Strawberry and Morris came to town

The St. Paul Saints rolled into town with Jack Morris and Darryl Strawberry in tow. Morris, a stallion of a right-hander from St. Paul, had already won 254 big-league games, earned five All-Star nods, and delivered that 10-inning shutout in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series for the Twins.

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Sports Nuggets: Vikings open training camp on July 20

Sports Nuggets: Vikings open training camp on July 20

The Vikings open with rookies reporting July 20, veterans following on July 22, and practices heating up shortly after. A pair of joint sessions with the Patriots and three preseason games in August will accelerate evaluations ahead of final roster cuts.

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