Secrets of the City

Stack Magazine interviewed Kevin Garnett about his training regimen. The article includes breakdowns of everything: in-season and off-season, game-days and off-days, on-court and off-court, workouts and nutrition plans. Pretty amazing.

Well, that’s what Forbes magazine says. Of course, their criteria might be different than some of ours.

Glen Taylor’s company is throwing in the towel at the Target Center, and no longer wants to manage Target Center, currently running on a $6M annual subsidy. The Taylor-backed Midwest Entertainment Group says the 16 year old facility needs an additional $70M in renovations, and says the city needs to pay up. Across the river, hometown legislators are at the capitol seeking nearly $100M of debt relief for the Xcel Energy Center projects just down the hill. Who will step up to take the pass?

Start the MVP talk…KG absolutely demolished the Phoenix Suns and their 17 game win streak tonight. He dropped 44 points and 11 rebounds in a huge statement win vs. the best team in basketball, and showed why he’s still the franchise.

First the City Pages loses its editor, now the Timberwolves lose their coach. ESPN.com broke the story, WCCO.com has some nice extra detail on it. These things come in threes, right? Who’s next to be out of a gig today?

I don’t know what is more stunning…Glen Taylor’s candor about how badly the T-Wolves have been mismanaged, or the level of ineptitude itself.

Timberwolves hustle man and fan favorite Mark Madsen updates his personal blog around once a week and comments on a wide variety of topics. In his latest entry, Mad Dog talks about enjoying spring time at Lake Calhoun — and getting left in the dust by all the marathon runners. If you’re hanging out by the lake this summer, keep an eye out and say hi to the big man.

Flip Saunders and Don Zierden are both T-Wolves coaching alums (head and assistant, respectively) who have migrated to the Detroit Pistons. In a fairly banal Freep interview in which Zierden compares Minneapolis and Motown, the topic of traffic comes up and the term “Michigan Left” is dropped. Dah whah? Quick Google: The Michigan Left. I want one!

Around these parts, we know just enough about local sports to get by in a conversation about how much weed Randy Moss smokes. Nonethelss, we enjoyed ESPN.com’s Best of Minnesota Poll, which has 37,000+ votes and asks questions like fave pro team (Vikings), best pro career (Kevin Garnett), best homegrown product (Paul Molitor!), and favorite sport (hockey!?!?). Our favorite is the non-sports question on favorite personality or historical figure, with these answers in order of votes: 1) Charles Schulz, 2) Bob Dylan, 3) Prince, 4) Garrison Keillor, 5) Jesse Ventura, 6) Jessica Biel, 7) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, 9) Winona Ryder, and 10) Sinclair Lewis. Which of those ten would you want on your bowling league?

In the worst attempt we’ve seen in a while to turn a national trend into a local story, a 129-word static message on Kevin Garnett’s website is apparently enough to elicit a story from the Strib on sports blogs. I suddenly don’t feel bad when we get only five new posts up here in a day.