This week\u2019s column is dedicated to Mr. John Fort of Hibbing. He passed away last month.<\/p>\n
Mr. Fort served as an Airborne Ranger with Company H, 75th Infantry, attached to the 1st Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n
Thank you for all of your service Mr. For.,<\/p>\n
Rest in peace.<\/p>\n
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Good<\/p>\n
I know that my readers had to know that this would be in my \u201cGood\u201d this week.<\/p>\n
Chicago Cubs centerfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong won the MLB Player of the Year award on Tuesday. He received 21 of the 24 first place votes.<\/p>\n
PCA hit .280 with 45 home runs, 107 RBIs, 119 runs, and 41 stolen bases.<\/p>\n
What a season he had.<\/p>\n
He helped to get the Cubs to the playoffs, where they fell to San Diego. There is always next year.<\/p>\n
Thanks for the unreal season \u201cPCA.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Finally, the Rock Ridge girls tennis team opened up the Section 7AA tournament this week and picked up wins over Princeton and Hibbing.<\/p>\n
The Wolverines took care of business and coasted to 7-0 wins in both maches.<\/p>\n
Rock Ridge will take on No. 2 North Branch on Tuesday in Virginia for the section title.<\/p>\n
The Wolverines are playing some unbelievable tennis and I really expect them to continue.<\/p>\n
Keep it going Wolverines.<\/p>\n
State is right around the corner.<\/p>\n
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Bad<\/p>\n
How about the NFL suspending two officials for some games?<\/p>\n
Usually it\u2019s two players being suspended and not officials.<\/p>\n
Line judge Jeff Seeman was suspended two games for swearing at Arizona\u2019s Trey McBride and referee Adrian Hill for one game for yelling and gesturing at Minnesota\u2019s Eric Wilson.<\/p>\n
Now the NFL Referees Association will challenge the severity of the suspensions.<\/p>\n
I think this might go on for a while.<\/p>\n
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Ugly<\/p>\n
In case you are wondering, the International Olympic Committee is getting close to naming the winner of the bidding for the 2036 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n
Like we know what will be going on in ten years.<\/p>\n
India and Qatar are now in the hunt for hosting the games.<\/p>\n
I guess in ten years, we will know.<\/p>\n
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The Good, Bad and Ugly Trivia Challenge<\/p>\n
The question last week: \u201cThis pitcher won 20 games in 1977, finished third in the National League Cy Young, and made the All Star game as a Cub. He also won the Gold Glove and finished his career with 214 wins. He later pitched in the World Series, but not with the Cubs. Who is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Nineteen readers knew it was Rick \u201cBig Daddy\u201d Reuschel.<\/p>\n
The names were numbered and Kelly, at the front desk of the paper, picked number 11, which made Dave Saranen a winner. Your cards are on the way, Dave.<\/p>\n
There won\u2019t be a trivia question this week.<\/p>\n
Jimmy will be in Minneapolis, meeting with his neurologist for a checkup on his MS. No column next week.<\/p>\n
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That will do it for this week.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff\u2014It\u2019s Only Sports.<\/p>\n
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Jimmy Laine can<\/p>\n
be reached at<\/p>\n
jimmylaine1010<\/p>\n
@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s column is dedicated to Mr. John Fort of Hibbing. He passed away last month. Mr. Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,19,2308,4,185],"class_list":["post-825325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117410656613329134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}