It doesn’t happen often, but there was good news in the April travel price index: The cost of domestic travel went down last month.
The TPI, which is a derivative of the federal consumer price index, tracks changes on the price of travel-related goods and services: restaurant meals, lodging, transportation. [...] Continue Reading…
MANKATO – Phil Imholte singled in Brandon Arnold in the bottom of the ninth inning to give St. Cloud State a 2-1 win over Southern Arkansas at the Division II Central Region baseball tournament late Friday night.
The Huskies advance to play Minnesota State-Mankato at 1 p.m. today in a winner’s [...] Continue Reading…
This week, Google invited the tech press and Android developers to San Francisco for the 2013 edition of the Google I/O conference. The search giant uses this gathering to talk about Google and web products, like Android, Chrome and other Google-branded applications.
Last year, I/O attendees saw the introduction of [...] Continue Reading…
The St. Cloud State football team finalized its fall schedule with times for home games.
The Huskies have six home games this fall. The home opener is Sept. 14 against Winona State at 6 p.m.
That is followed by the “Celebrate St. Cloud Weekend” game against Augustana at 6 p.m. on [...] Continue Reading…
It wasn’t perfect, but senior Dennis Granath and the rest of his St. John’s teammates felt pretty good about the way things started at the Division III national golf meet Tuesday.
Granath shot a two-under-par score of 69 to finish the first day of the four-round event in second place [...] Continue Reading…
The state softball coaches association has released some new state rankings with the playoffs just around the corner (next week).
Of note locally is that Becker is ranked eighth and Paynesville is ninth in Class 2A.
State softball rankings, provided by the coaches association
CLASS 1A
Rank.(prev) School (Section) -(Points)
1.(2) Mankato Loyola (S2)-(69)
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With the ice age seemingly in full retreat — finally — it’s time for a lot of Minnesotans to make travel plans that have more to do with state parks than getting documents from the State Department.
The old-school way of state park camping was driving up with a car [...] Continue Reading…
Games today
(Single elimination, all games at Veterans Field, Minnetonka)
No. 4 Bethel vs. No. 5 St. John’s, 3 p.m.
No. 3 Augsburg vs. No. 6 St. Mary’s, 7 p.m.
Games Saturday
No. 1 St. Thomas vs. Bethel/St. John’s winner, 2 p.m.
No. 2 Concordia vs. Augsburg/St. Mary’s winner, 6 p.m.
Game Sunday
Championship, 1 p.m. (winner [...] Continue Reading…
St. John’s baseball coach Jerry Haugen and his players went on an emotional roller coaster ride Thursday.
In the end, though, the Johnnies’ season will continue. Haugen received a call from MIAC officials Thursday night informing him a mistake had been made in the tiebreaker calculations that originally left St. [...] Continue Reading…
The St. John’s baseball team is not going to the MIAC tournament and head coach Jerry Haugen is not pleased with the way that came about.
Because the conference season was compressed into just a few weeks due to weather, MIAC coaches had previously agreed to expand the conference tournament — [...] Continue Reading…
