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Casey Marble

A Lord-of-the-Rings-themed glider falls into the Mississippi.

Culture

Homemade Gliders Plunge Into the Mississippi River at Red Bull Flugtag

Britt Robson believes that basketball is a beautiful game and will use that framework—when beauty blooms and when it is besmirched—to cover the Minnesota Lynx. It is the way he has covered the Minnesota Timberwolves since that franchise&#8217;s second year of existence, for publications too numerous to count but most recently <a href="https://www.minnpost.com/author/britt-robson/">MinnPost</a>, plus regular appearances on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DaneMooreNBA">Dane Moore NBA Podcast</a>. He has also written about music and politics, including hundreds of bylines for City Pages back in the heyday, giving him kinship with the Racket ethos.

Britt Robson

Sports

Minnesota Lynx Playoff Preview: 3 Ways to Defeat the Big, Experienced New York Liberty

Alex Robinson is a brain-rotted comms professional trying to get back into freelance writing. She can be found around the Twin Cities getting dropped by her cycling teammates on training rides, plotting her next Halloween costume, or trying to get her friends to go to Bull’s Horn AGAIN.

Culture

Homemade Gliders Plunge Into the Mississippi River at Red Bull Flugtag

Minnesota Lynx Playoff Preview: 3 Ways to Defeat the Big, Experienced New York Liberty

I Went to the Minneapolis Buckthorn Removal Singles Club and All I Got Was a Beautiful, Wholesome Morning