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Schneider, Watt give Bulldogs hockey a distinctly Duluth voice
DULUTH — Bulldogs hockey sounds different when the two men describing it have spent much of their lives around the game in Duluth. Zach Schneider has spent nearly two decades learning how to tell a sports story on television. Jason Watt spent years learning how to prevent the other team from
Opinion: Essentia’s merger raises a bigger question: Why give up independence?
The central question surrounding this transaction should therefore not be why HealthPartners isn't writing Essentia a check. The better question is what Duluth, Essentia’s patients and its employees receive in exchange for surrendering the institution’s independence.
Scott Sandelin’s message to his players: Prove it
“Nothing's going to be handed like college hockey, our league, everything is some really damn good teams right now. And I'm just excited that we have a group that's being considered in that mix, but we got to go prove it. We got to go work.” -- Scott Sandelin
Built to contend: Bulldogs bring veteran firepower, national expectations into season opener
DULUTH — Minnesota Duluth enters the 2026-27 men’s hockey season with the reigning Hobey Baker Award winner, an experienced core that came within one victory of the Frozen Four and a national ranking that places the Bulldogs squarely among college hockey’s leading contenders. The rebuilding has produced a
Hawks give Zagelmeyer plenty to like and build on
Mike Zagelmeyer has good reason to like his Hermantown football team, and the reasons extend well beyond an unbeaten record and a running back who turned homecoming into a personal highlight film. Martin Sleen supplied the extraordinary Friday night. The homecoming king returned the opening kickoff 94 yards for a
Hermantown, Cloquet meet in pivotal Northeast Red homecoming test
HERMANTOWN — Hermantown has spent September demonstrating how quickly it can change a football game. Cloquet has spent the past two weeks demonstrating how quickly it can change a season. The teams collide tonight in one of the more intriguing early-season Northeast Red Conference games in northeastern Minnesota, when Hermantown