Todd Smrekar is on the committee that selects coaches to be inducted in the Minnesota High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame, but he missed that committee’s January meeting.

Concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic will not delay the start of the 2020 fishing season, which officially will open on Saturday, May 9.

The new men’s basketball coach at Concordia University, St. Paul, is a familiar face to basketball fans in North Branch.

Despite the short notice golf courses had before being allowed to open despite the current ongoing pandemic, Purple Hawk Country Club of Cambridge and Bulrush Golf Club of Rush City were among the many courses to open April 18 and 19.

Cambridge-Isanti High School hosted a unique signing day for three of its student-athletes on Wednesday, April 15.

For Rush City seniors Angel Martinez Johnson and Matthew Papke, Minnesota’s stay-at-home response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been tough to swallow.

Cambridge-Isanti and North Branch high schools are expected to join St. Francis in creating a co-op girls hockey team that will begin play in the 2020-2021 season.

Growing up in Andover, Rachel Appel loved horses long before she received her first horse at age 13.

Easter Sunday this year was a stark reminder of the uncertainties of weather in Minnesota.

Some area athletic fields are shining a ray of light during these times of darkness.

For Todd Johnson, the silence at the National Sports Center is heartbreaking.

Tom Campanaro will never forgot how Neil Jennissen “recruited” him to serve as an assistant coach for the Cambridge-Isanti wrestling program back in 1995.

This certainly is not the best time to be a sports fan, is it?

The Cambridge-Isanti girls basketball team’s journey to the Class 4A State Tournament included a few bumps.

The Cambridge-Isanti boys basketball team finished this season with a victory – and usually the only teams that end the year with a win are teams that win a state title.

It did not take much to convince Alyson Niebur to play hockey. After all, she comes from a hockey family.

The Rum River Mallards saw their season come to a disappointing close in the first round of the U.S. Premier Hockey League playoffs.

It is hard to imagine a better finish to a season than the one enjoyed by the Cambridge Christian School girls basketball team.

Lizzie Altendorf has been playing sports all her life and as a result has suffered a bump and a bruise or two.

March Madness is about to begin for the area’s boys basketball teams as they begin section tournament action this week.

Jimmy Brown overcame a great deal of adversity to earn a spot amongst the best wrestlers in the state.

Steve Zamzo played football on the Cambridge teams that won state titles in 1986-1987. It makes sense that, when his playing days ended, he would become a coach.

Cambridge-Isanti’s Ethan Hintermeister qualified to compete at the Class 2A state diving tournament for the second year in a row.

The Cambridge-Isanti gymnastics team capped another fine year with a strong performance at the state meet, which was held at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21-22.

Things are about to get real for area girls basketball teams.

The North Branch wrestling team will send four athletes to the state wrestling tournament this week, while Cambridge-Isanti and Rush City-Braham will each send one wrestler to the Xcel Energy Center.

It may seem natural, almost automatic, to say the Cambridge-Isanti gymnastics team has advanced to the state tournament.