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Its that time as I begin my 7th annual season preview series.  We'll go through the metro area conferences in (generally) alphabetical ...

Welcome to my 7th season in cyberspace.  We continue the Labor Day weekend tradition of flipping the links to the new season.  That means li...

With the end of the 2013 AAU Season, comes the end of the 1st season of AAU Bingo.  It exploded into something far bigger than expected.  Ev...

So after a week of hibernating from the long trip to Vegas (meant to put this up last week but had another road trip that delayed this), her...

The week was the annual D1 Minnesota Summer Classic.  Not the type of talent or level of coaches we've seen in the old days but plenty o...

One of the new elements of this 2013 AAU season was the Sanford Pentagon Tournament Series (SPTS).  With favorable reviews by the league mem...

Its annual Summer Classic at Bloomington Jefferson.  This year a few games at Kennedy but the middle court in the Jefferson Activity Center ...

We're past the 4th of July and its time for the annual July road show.  The next 3 Wed-Sun periods (5 PM - 5 PM) are open periods for th...

It was a quick 24 hours in St. Cloud for the final bit of 17U pool play and a full day bracket play at the 2013 Great Plains Alliance.   Sti...

Hello?  Hello?  Is thing on?  After a spring hiatus in the 2nd chair on the bench, The Czar is back to work for the summer portion of the 20...

Teams are back off the road after 2 weeks of seeing the college coaches.  The Minnesota Heat and Howard Pulley host their annual tournaments...

I was fortunate enough to take the weekend trip to Kansas City for the Jayhawk Invitational.  My thanks to Al Harris, Grant Fossum and the f...

Thank you to the 9999th batch of April snow for giving some extra time to put together thoughts from NY2LA Spring Extravaganza and the Pump ...

Its the 1st open April weekend of the 2013 recruiting season.  Teams off to the 4 winds, here's what catches my eye. Sanford Pentagon ...

Some random thoughts from the 2013 Comets Shootout 15u With the 15s not playing at the Whitney until the championship game thoughts here ...

Its time once again for the Comets Shootout.  As always its the big kickoff to the spring/summer grassroots season.   All of the NSIC and to...

With a few Minnesota AAU teams opening up their season this weekend, its time for the game craze sweeping the nation, AAU Bingo!  For those ...

Prologue A great contrast of styles for the Class AA title as Litchfield takes on Minnehaha.  Minnehaha a team that wants to get out and ru...