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Strib Varsity Enterprise Reporter. Former MLB and college football beat writer. Baltimore Sun, Riverside PE alum.

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Star Tribune's Joe Christensen covers NCAA football and the Gophers. Before this, he covered Major League Baseball for 15 years.

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Why some Minnesota teen athletes are scrambling for college roster spots in new NCAA era

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By Joe Christensen Verified
| MSN Verified
Joe Christensen, Star Tribune Colin Hokanson was a late bloomer for Shakopee's track and field team last spring. He flourished in several events and dreamed of competing at the NCAA Division I level – before everything turned upside down. “In the past, you would for sure be someone that I'd guarantee a roster spot to,” Hokanson said, reading an email from a Wisconsin Badgers assistant coach.
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Why some Minnesota teen athletes are scrambling for college roster spots in new NCAA era

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By Joe Christensen Verified
| The Minnesota Star Tribune Verified
Colin Hokanson was a late bloomer for Shakopee’s track and field team last spring. He flourished in several events and dreamed of competing at the NCAA Division I level – before everything turned upside down. “In the past, you would for sure be someone that I’d guarantee a roster spot to,” Hokanson said, reading an email from a Wisconsin Badgers assistant coach.
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Sinkholes at St. Francis football stadium will cost six figures to repair

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By Joe Christensen Verified
| The Minnesota Star Tribune Verified
When a football team has holes to fill in June, that’s usually a reference to the team’s uncertain starting lineup. St. Francis’ football team has bigger issues. Sinkholes have formed beneath the bleachers at the football stadium and under the field, prompting the school district to close the stadium indefinitely. “Solutions might be $100,000, and they might be a million-plus,” St. Francis superintendent Karsten Anderson said during Monday’s school board meeting.
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