From the Sports Editor's desk
Every Sunday morning, Chris Carr or Naila-Jean Meyers writes a note to readers in our This Week in Sports newsletter. You can sign up for that free newsletter here. Here is this week's note:
There are no Robo-Sports Editors, yet, so you're stuck with reading something that I'm writing to you.
What am I talking about? If you read La Velle's E. Neal's latest column, you'll get the (lame-ish) joke there.
La Velle's column was one of several stories in recent days that you could only read in the Star Tribune or on startribune.com. A goal of ours is to deliver to you original stories, pieces you can only read here. We wanted to write on the so-called "robo-umps" (sadly, no actual robots) that are working at St. Paul Saints games calling balls and strikes.
Andrew Krammer wrote about a Vikings player you might not have heard of before.
Bob Timmons took questions from frustrated camp site-seekers and sought answers for a story.
Jim Paulsen wrote about the booming growth of softball on TV — including some surprising stats about how many people are watching and thoughts from players and coaches about why it's happening.
