Jay Boller

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories.

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Wikipedia is the eighth most-visited website on the planet, per (and apologies for our lack of research rigor) Wikipedia. Unlike the sites that chart above it, all of which are owned by tech oligarchs representing varying yet considerable evil levels, Wikipedia is controlled by a nonprofit called the Wikimedia Foundation. And the online encyclopedia's content is produced by tens of thousands of volunteer editors known as Wikipedians.

3 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. All friend of Racket Jessica Lussenhop does is produce bangers, so it's no surprise that her latest for ProPublica—"'A Wholly Inaccurate Picture': Reality Cop Show 'The First 48' and the Wrongly Convicted Man"—brings the goods.

3 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Earlier this week news broke that Game Informer—the locally headquartered, 33-year-old video game magazine that shut down last summer—will soon come back from the dead. Great news, and here's hoping its new crypto-financed savior doesn't fuck things up. That got us thinking: The Racket community has never discussed video games, a $200 billion industry whose boosters believe it's poised to out-earn Hollywood. Me? I'm not much of a gamer these days.

4 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

I've been scanning real estate listings for Medina's 1492 Hunter Dr. since last October. That's when, in a shocking three-team trade, the Timberwolves shipped Karl-Anthony Towns off to the New York Knicks, thus making the superstar center's staggeringly huge lakeside estate a prime candidate to trade hands. And sure enough, this Tuesday the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 17,251-square-footer (!) hit the market for $5.5 million. Reads the listing from Benjamin LaVelle with Compass Realty...