Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the ...

A trio of rivers in southeastern Minnesota offer perfect opportunities to fish for smallmouth, and to do so on foot.

Moored to Joe’s dock those decades ago was a 12-foot Lund V-hull aluminum boat, factory painted olive drab. From time to time, when his family’s menu called for fish, he would descend the steps on the ...