Minnesota Wild players will participate in a sold out fund raiser for Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota on Sunday. Players will wait on tables at Pazzaluna Urban Italian Restaurant and Bar in St. Paul.
The much talked about Sun Country TV commercial featuring the Star Tribune’s Sid Hartman is still airing on local TV.
Have faith Vikings fans: the Indianapolis Colts are now the second team that plays its home games in a dome to win the Super Bowl. The St. Louis Rams were the first, winning the Super Bowl in 2000.
Former Gopher football coach Glen Mason is vacationing at his home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Former Gopher basketball coach Dan Monson has been visiting other college basketball schools to learn about their programs and how they do things. Monson’s Bearpath home is on the market.
Mike Wilkinson, who wrote a book on former Gopher football coach Murray Warmath, noted that among Big Ten Conference coaches Warmath and Penn State’s Joe Paterno have the most former players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, three each. The recent election of Charlie Sanders means he joins Bobby Bell and Carl Eller as former Gophers in the hall who played for Warmath.
Hamline University sophomore guard Jon DeRock averaged 29 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting 67 percent from the floor as the Pipers won a pair of conference games last week. He’s been chosen as the MIAC’s men’s basketball player of the week. Other conference players of the week are Jessica Katch of St. Thomas and Hannah Oken-Berg of Carleton (co-winners women’s basketball); Kevin Rollwagen of St. Thomas (men’s hockey); Sarah Windhorst of Gustavus Adolphus (women’s hockey); Scott Hagemeyer of Gustavus Adolphus (men’s swimming and diving); and Lauren Wallerius of Gustavus Adolphus (women’s swimming and diving).