No All-Star love for Kevin Love
Since sifting through dull newspapers, hyperbolic blogs, and overflowing RSS feeds for meaningful news can be an arduous process, News Net catches and compiles both the amusing and the significant reports that were overlooked throughout the week. Here are some things to think about as the weekend begins.
• He may lead the league in rebounds, but Kevin Love is not an NBA All-Star. The Timberwolves forward was left off the list of reserves chosen by Western Conference coaches, outraging plenty of folks around town, as well as Charles Barkley. In dissent, the Star Tribune’s Michael Rand makes a strong case that Love, as an overachiever on a weak team, doesn’t really qualify as an All-Star. (Love has one last shot at making the team: The league has yet to name a replacement for the injured Yao Ming.) If this basketball thing doesn’t work out, Love can always fall back on his career as a model/perfumer. (UPDATE: NBA Commissioner David Stern did indeed invite Love to replace Ming on the Western Conference roster. Huzzah!)
• Former Prince drummer Robert Rivkin, better known as Bobby Z, is recovering from a heart attack he suffered over the past weekend. Surgeons cleared two of Rifkin’s three blocked arteries, and are waiting for the 55-year-old’s strength to recover before they clear the third. An original member of Prince’s touring band, soon to be known as The Revolution, Rivkin left Prince’s employ amicably in 1986, when Sheila E. took over percussion duties.
• This weekend is the 5K ski run Luminary Loppet, which begins and ends at the Uptown Mall, stretches across various lakes, and wends through illuminated ice sculptures. MPR reports on the construction of “Ice-Henge”—eight blocks of ice, each 8 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 1 foot thick—where Lake Of The Isles connects to Cedar Lake. “Ice-Henge” is the work of artist Erik Wardenaar and engineer Hal Galvin.
• If you want to try something a little different at your Super Bowl party, Heavy Table’s Judd Spicer tested a couple of recipes from The Quarterback Killer’s Cookbook, published last fall by Vikings defensive end Jared Allen. You might have to take a last-minute trip out to Hudson to procure some pheasant and wild boar.
• Um, this looks like frozen pee.
