This year the Twins will break the franchise single season home attendance record of 3,030,672.
Brett Favre is coy enough about his football future that even a Favre neighbor in Mississippi doesn’t know what the quarterback will decide.
Favre and Twins manager Ron Gardenhire are on the roster of speakers for a motivational business seminar at Target Center on May 26.
Linebacker Gary Tinsley, who had an incident with University police earlier this spring, is expected to play for the Gophers next season and is a likely starter. Tinsley had 10 tackles to lead the Gophers in their final Big Ten Conference game against Iowa last season.
Cordian Hagans, the defensive tackle transferring from LSU to join the Gophers, played high school basketball with Minnesota’s Ralph Sampson III at Northview High School in Duluth, Georgia. Hagans, 6-5 and about 300 pounds, didn’t start playing football until his junior year.
Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi is starting to jog again after injuring his Achilles tendon about a year ago.
St. Thomas 2009 graduate Katie Theisen has been awarded the NCAA’s prestigious Walter Byers Scholarship. Theisen was chosen as this year’s female recipient of the $24,000 postgraduate scholarship. She’s the seventh Division III honoree and second MIAC recipient to receive the scholarship. A former All-American distance runner for the Tommies, Theisen is enrolled in medical school at Minnesota.
Former Edina state prep champ Whitney Taney, now playing tennis for Michigan, is a unanimous all-Big Ten choice by conference coaches. During the nonconference and Big Ten schedules she was 25-9 in singles, 33-6 in doubles. Much of her court time came at No. 2 singles and No. 1 Doubles. As the team captain, she led No. 4 ranked Michigan to its best regular season in program history, 22-4 overall, 10-0 in the Big Ten.
Jay Pivec, who had a 20 year record of 452-115 at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, was inducted on April 30 into the NJCAA Men’s Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. His presenter was friend and Twins executive Eric Curry.