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To the surprise of no one, Kevin Noreen of Minnesota Transitions was (quietly) named 2010 Minnesota Mr. Basketball.  Noreen led MTS to the C...

So I wrote about my issues with the Mr Basketball award a couple of years ago.  Time to bring those back. 1) Make the basic criteria clear...

Here's my 5 member all state tournament breakout team.  These are kids who took their game to another level at the state tournament.  In...

Very interesting game with Sebeka having an up and down style to run with MTS.  Then it gets really interesting when Kevin Noreen goes up to...

What a pair of endings.  Great play call and comeback by Ellsworth.  Great look and around and out to end the Ellsworth game.  Casey Schilli...

So now the small school semifinals.  After last night's officiating debacle let's hope today is better.  Year after year we see stuf...

Item I'm watching in this Tech vs EP semifinal is how Tech generates offense.  Thomas Korf, Alex Hanks and Scott Nystrom have carried mo...

First some thoughts on the Tech/Champlin Park game which I saw the last 11 minutes of.  Really strange that Champlin Park got a 44-42 lead a...

Prologue Nice to Andy Birdsong before the game. He coached many of the Minnehaha kids in summer ball for the past few years and is now a gr...

Prologue A nice way to start the night with the brothers Olstad of Plainview-Elgin-Millville taking on my favorite name Yuriy Malashenko an...

Here are my thoughts on the 3A and 4A opening round games for the 2010 State Tournament. Class 4A Hopkins vs Forest Lake .  Forest Lake p...

Here are my picks for various awards for the 11 Metro Area Conferences.  It will also include some of my favorite personal awards. MVP Awa...

Prologue To Elk River with good friend The Caveman for the 7AAAA final between Duluth East and Forest Lake.  Forest Lake with difficult los...

Prologue After a great afternoon of NCAA action, it was off to Concordia-St. Paul's Gangelhoff Center for the 6AAA final between top se...

Here's some thoughts on the 7 class AAAA finals to be played the next 2 nights. Section 1: Hastings vs Owatonna (at Rochester) Owaton...

Minnesota Transitions wins the 4A East Subsection Championship over St. Agnes tonight.  Kevin Noreen with 44 points in the game to surpass t...

Prologue To the brand spanking new facility at East Ridge for the section 4AAAA semifinals.  Carbone's pizza not bad, but a smidge grea...

I don't write much about the happenings after kids leave the high school, but today brings the urge.  Rochester Community and Technical ...

So I spent Saturday in St. Cloud at the section semifinals for classes 8AAA, 8AAAA and 5AAA.  What a day.  Nothing like that 6 AM wakeup cal...

Mark Klingsporn Prologue A much warmer trip this time ( compared to January ) to White Bear Lake where they hosted Tartan (thank you coin ...