A Fun Weekend To Be A Minnesota Sports Fan!
The Minnesota Twins host the first-place Guardians for four games in three days, the Vikings open the preseason on Saturday and the US Men's Olympic Basketball team, featuring the Timberwolves' Anthony Edwards, will play for a gold medal against Rudy Gobert and his team from France on Saturday as well.
In addition, the amateur baseball playoffs heat up this weekend with several matchups in the area Friday and Saturday, PLUS the Rox host the Willmar Stingers Friday and Saturday with home field advantage in the playoffs on the line!
The Twins host Cleveland at 1:10 and 7:10 on Friday, 6:10 on Saturday and 1:10 on Sunday. Twins baseball is ESPN 102.3/AM 1000 KSOO.
The Twins enter the weekend just 3.5 games behind Cleveland in the American League Central standings, so there are some major playoff implications involved in this series. Following the Cleveland series, the Twins will host third-place Kansas City Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Vikings will host the Raiders for their first preseason game of the year on Saturday at 3:00 PM.
The Vikings say they will play both veteran quarterback Sam Darnold and rookie JJ McCarthy and fans will get their first look at both of them.
The US men's basketball team plays against France at 2:30 PM. Saturday afternoon.
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