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How to Get Good at Whatever You Do

How would you like to get better at whatever you do? It’s simple. Just take a trip in your imagination to Red Wing, Minn., where the first North American ski jumping exhibition took place 125 years ago today. Ski jumping came to North American with immigrants from Norway, and it took hold in Minnesota for […]

Details That Doom

Just as in Canada’s Grey Cup, a too-many-men penalty made all the difference in yesterday’s Vikings-Saints game. Everyone associated with the Vikings — players, coaches and fans — will long remember a detail that cost the team a chance to go to the Super Bowl. “Just the slightest bit of miscommunication,” left guard Steve Hutchinson […]