March 15, 2023 “Be careful what you write,” are the light-hearted parting words of a chuckling Dave Metzen following a 90-minute conversation. Dave has both a storied career in athletics, educational leadership, and community service and a potential career in storytelling. An All-Conference tackle in football who found greater success in hockey, Dave spent hisContinue reading “DAVE METZEN: A CONVERSATION WITH A SOUTH ST. PAUL ATHLETE AND EDUCATOR”
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John Pohl: JUNIOR YEAR AT RED WING, SENIOR YEAR AT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WERE STORYBOOK SEASONS
December 6, 2022 Part of a true brotherhood, John Pohl is the oldest of four boys of a Red Wing, Minnesota teacher, hockey coach, and athletic director father, Jim, and lawyer mother, Joanne. Born in 1979, John was joined by brothers, Mark, Mike, and Tommy within the next five years. “We boys did everything together,”Continue reading “John Pohl: JUNIOR YEAR AT RED WING, SENIOR YEAR AT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WERE STORYBOOK SEASONS”
DEBRA HUNTER: CLOQUET WILL ALWAYS BE HOME
Cloquet, Minnesota, will always be home to coach and 1979-83 University of Minnesota (U of M) point guard Debra Hunter while she also emphatically states she “was raised by a series of villages.” The villages included the churches her father served as a pastor; people in the community of Cloquet, a city of 12,000 peopleContinue reading “DEBRA HUNTER: CLOQUET WILL ALWAYS BE HOME”
ROBB LEER: MINNEAPOLIS SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL CONNECTIONS AND A PASSION FOR HOCKEY LANDED HIM THE JOB AT KSTP
Former sports and news broadcaster and media strategist Robb Leer readily admits he is enthused about chasing the next great story, but you also quickly learn that he is a good storyteller himself. And he has a lot of material over years of reporting to pluck from to share. The fourth of five sons whoContinue reading “ROBB LEER: MINNEAPOLIS SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL CONNECTIONS AND A PASSION FOR HOCKEY LANDED HIM THE JOB AT KSTP”
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