Following yesterday’s win over Oakland and series sweep, the Twins are now a season high six games over .500. Justin Morneau has hit safely in 10 of his last 11 games, batting .395 (17-43) with nine runs, two doubles, five homers and 15 RBI in that span. The Twins drew 134,348 total fans during the Oakland series, an average of 33,587 per game.
An ostrich race and also a camel race will be part of Canterbury Park’s first Extreme Race Day presented by SPAM on Sunday afternoon. Various horse races featuring something out of the ordinary will be staged including a horse racing first, “The Battle of the Surfaces.” The race will feature as many as 20 horses competing against each other at 1 and 1/16th miles on the turf and the dirt simultaneously. Wagering isn’t allowed on the camel and ostrich races.
Sporting News gave its opinions on which NFL training camps will be the most grueling using a 1-5 scale, with five “being boot camp.” The Lions received a five, the Vikings a four, Packers a two and the Bears a one.
Gopher athletic director Joel Maturi wrote via e-mail that a magazine report that Texas offensive coordinator Greg Davis was offered the Minnesota football job last winter isn’t accurate. Maturi wrote that Tim Brewster was the only person offered the position as head coach.
The Gophers, for the first time since they went to Alexandria in the 1970’s, will practice off campus when they open their pre-season practice at Saint John’s in Collegeville next month. Here’s Brewster talking about the upcoming six days at Saint John’s: “This will be a wonderful opportunity for our football team to spend time and come together as a family on one of the great college campuses in the country. It also will be a special honor for us to practice where the winningest head coach in college football history resides in the legendary coach John Gagliardi.”
Gopher basketball coach Tubby Smith will be the grand marshal in Wednesday night’s Aquatennial Torchlight Parade.
President and general manager Doug Risebrough today announced the Minnesota Wild has re-signed right wing Matt Foy, defenseman Erik Reitz, right wing Aaron Voros and right wing Joel Ward to 2007-08 contracts. All four played at the Wild’s Houston farm team last year.