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Twins sign Jacque Jones

The Minnesota Twins have reached one-year contract agreements with five players, including a $5 million deal with right fielder Jacque Jones. Monday was a key deadline for the team, which needed to sign players or agree to salary arbitration. The Twins offered arbitration to four other players, including Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana. Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer talked with Twins General Manager Terry Ryan.

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Vikings legend Carl Eller

When former Minnesota Viking Carl Eller was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this summer, he vowed to use the honor to lead young African-American males "toward the great colleges and universities of our nation, not to prisons and jail cells." Eller will be honored during the half-time ceremony at Sunday's Vikings game.

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Sports, steroids and scandal

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said the players' union should change its rules regarding testing for steroids or he'll encourage government intervention. Recent revelations of steroid abuse confirm what many believe is the tainting of a sport heavily dependent on records and fans' goodwill.

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Beyond Title IX: Women in sports then and now

It's been more than 30 years since the historic Title IX legislation forced educational institutions to start paying attention to women's athletics, but two of the leading authorities on women in sports say they still face resistance when they make the case for equal treatment. Mary Jo Kane, professor and director of the University of Minnesota Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, and Donna Lopiano, the Executive Director of the Women's Sports Foundation, discussed the history and the future of women's athletics this October in Minneapolis. The event was part of the U of M's "Great Conversations" series.

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Basket brawl

The three Indiana Pacers players who fought with fans during a game with the Detroit Pistons are appealing the length of their suspensions. Midmorning takes a look at the psychology of fan behavior and what fans and teams can do to bring back the concept sportsmanship.

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The weird and wild side of sports

From golfing in the arctic circle to 22-day roller coaster marathons, acclaimed sportswriter Steve Rushin is out with a new book on extreme recreation. "The Caddie was a Reindeer" is a compilation of Rushin's tender odes to his old favorites like basketball and hockey, as well as off-the-wall explorations of off-the-map sports. What drives a person to go zipping through the mountains of Germany at 180 miles per hour, anyway?

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For Twins fans, it's wait 'til next year

The Minnesota Twins insisted they were a far better team than the one steamrolled out of last year's division series by the New York Yankees. And they might have been. A year later, though, the result was the same: Yankees in four. Season over.

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Yankees crush Twins to take 2-1 series lead

Backed by Derek Jeter's three RBIs and a relentless offense, Brown threw six strong innings to lead the Yankees past the frustrated Minnesota Twins 8-4 on Friday night for a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five AL playoff series.

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Kidnapping of relatives of Venezuelan Twins a worry

Twins righthander Carlos Silva will make the first post season start of his major league career tonight when New York plays Minnesota at the Metrodome. The playoff series is tied at one game apiece. Silva will have to contend with a formidable Yankee lineup on the field, while off the field there is troubling news from his homeland. Silva is one of five Twins players from Venezuela where the economic conditions continue to deteriorate. Ransom kidnappings are on the rise and for the last month kidnappers have held the mother of Detroit Tigers pitcher Ugueth Urbina. Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer spoke with Brian Ellsworth, a free-lance reporter based in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Twins lose game two to Yankees

The Minnesota Twins best-of-five playoff series with the Yankees is now tied at one game apiece after last night's crushing loss to New York in 12 innings. Minnesota took a 6-5 lead in the top of the 12th inning on a home run by Torii Hunter. But Twins closer Joe Nathan, pitching more than two innings for the first time all season, could not hold the lead in the bottom of the 12th. He walked two batters and then gave up a game-tying double to Alex Rodriguez. Derek Jeter scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Hideki Matsui. The Twins and Yankees are headed to the Metrodome for games three and four of the series, and so is LaVelle Neal, who covers the Twins for the Star Tribune. He spoke with Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer from New York.
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