The Virginia Blue Devils defeated Hibbing to win the Section 7A hockey tournament tonight, advancing to the Minnesota State Hockey Tournament next week. Virginia will be representing the Iron Range at state and, despite being a Hibbing native with only limited knowledge of hockey in general, I’ll be backing the Devils at state. The Iron Range lives and breathes hockey; in a way that can’t be understood until you work with people who spend all their time taking their 7-year-olds to Warroad for a mite tournament.
The state tournament opens Wednesday, March 11 — the same day as my “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range” Twin Cities book tour. I’ll be speaking at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11 at the University of Minnesota Bookstore at Coffman Memorial Union in Minneapolis. The following day, Thursday, March 12, I’ll be doing a signing at the Eagan Barnes and Noble. “Overburden” explores life on the Range: reverent, humorous but unvarnished.
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