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Take your pick. Maybe it was a Big East Tournament basketball game that broke for halftime and never returned. Or the cardboard cutouts of spectators that replaced flesh-and blood fans in stadiums across the country. Or the Maui Invitational...

After the curses and death threats and groans across Minnesota from Mankato to International Falls, Blair Walsh needed a little love. He found it in the oddest of places — the first-grade class of Northpoint Elementary in Blaine, a Minneapolis s...