As the hated rivals taunted the good guys with their chant of “SEE-zun-ZOH-ver” at the Rochester (Minn.) Rec Center Saturday afternoon, the clock wound down on a solid season for the Rochester Mayo High School hockey team. The top seed in Section 1AA, the Spartans came out flat and stayed that way for most of a heart-breaking 7-3 loss. The team’s seniors fell two wins short of their dream of qualifying for the state tournament next week in St. Paul. [More]

The Spartans crawled out of an early 2-0 hole to forge a 2-2 tie in their regular season finale against arch-rival Century Feb. 19 at Graham Arena. With the tie, Century captures a share of the Big 9 championship. The rivals will likely meet again in the section playoffs. [More]

I got very few decent shots at this one – I think because it was fast and very back and forth. You be the judge. [More]

Mayo continued its Big 9 win streak with a dominating win over Albert Lea on Valentine’s Day at Graham Arena in Rochester, Minn. [More]

I shot up (camera, people!) the Mayo vs. Austin high school hockey game at Graham Arena in Rochester on Feb. 5. Here are a few select (read: passable, semi in focus, not terrible, etc.) shots.

Mayo won, 13-1. [More]

It’s worth a reminder: One can take a poorly executed photo of a nice scene – or in this case, a crappy cellphone-quality pic taken through the windshield of a moving car – drop it in Photoshop, play with a few artistic settings and – voila! – you have Impressionistic Art™ (I mean … I think that’s right … is it?).

This pic was all blurry and skewed from the car windshield (compare above to the original). I straightened it up, added brush strokes and now it’s suitable for framing – or as a background for my PC desktop (which it currently is). [More]