Kevin Pates

Former endurance sports and Minnesota Duluth hockey writer at the Duluth News Tribune. Now comfortably retired in Sun City, Ariz.

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@slapschotts Superb storytelling by Bobbie Gentry, now age 83.

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@StarTribune You probably know: G.B. Leighton was inducted into the Grandma's Marathon Hall of Fame in 2011 for contributions as a long-time post-race music headliner in Duluth. The 50th Grandma's Marathon is June 20.

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@slapschotts Excellent. 😀

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Also: The greatest Stanley Cup Final goal ever scored came on May 25, 1991.

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@ThrillaRilla369 Aretha Franklin

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@nyttypos @nytimes @TheAthletic The phrase, Running it back, is simply awful.

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@illinilegends

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@DonEffenberger Starting a 1960s playlist with three songs is somewhat impossible. But here are three: Runaway, Del Shannon; I Only Want to Be With You, Dusty Springfield; Cara Mia, Jay Black and the Americans.

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@ATRightMovies 12 Angry Men.

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@slapschotts Now this is good news. 🥳

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@RussoHockey Can you repeat all of that?

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@ATRightMovies Saturday Night Fever

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@JVMonte2 The Green Door

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@JVMonte2 Devil with a Blue Dress On

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@Patrick_Reusse Duluth fans welcome home 1984 Minnesota Duluth hockey men from runner up NCAA finish in Lake Placid. From the Duluth News Tribune.

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@Patrick_Reusse

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@goon48 Interesting that one school's hockey building, literally on the shores of the greatest of the Great Lakes, is not in the Great Lakes division.

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