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Chip Scoggins is a sports columnist and enterprise writer for the Star Tribune. He has worked at the Star Tribune since 2000 and previously covered the Vikings, Gophers football, Wild, Wolves and high school sports.

Chip Scoggins is a sports columnist and enterprise writer for the Star Tribune. A graduate of the University of Missouri journalism school, Scoggins worked at newspapers in Texas, Connecticut, North Carolina and Chicago before joining the Star Tribune in 2000. He has been named Minnesota's Sportswriter of the Year four times by the National Sports Media Association.


Scoggins: Finch feeling heat of the Suns as playoff battle looms

Can coach Chris Finch figure this out? Phoenix has owned the Wolves this season, and now he has two more days to fix that before Game 1.


Scoggins: Why 'championship or bust' fits these Wolves

Karl-Anthony Towns said it himself, almost two years ago, and now this woebegone franchise finally looks ready for a deep playoff run.


Scoggins: Anatomy of a game-saving play as Correa throws out Ohtani

Four components to one play that had zero margin for error. The Twins beat the Dodgers thanks to a crucial throw home from their star shortstop.


Scoggins: McCarthy or Maye? Ex-U coach breaks down Vikings' options

The two quarterbacks in the NFL draft most linked with the Vikings both played the Gophers last season in the span of a month.


Scoggins: Cory Provus getting ready for 'biggest challenge' of career

Today's game will mark the first Twins home game with Provus, who had been the Twins' radio voice, replacing Dick Bremer on TV.


Scoggins: Transcendent stars meet again in Bueckers vs. Clark battle

Friday night's NCAA semifinal between Paige Bueckers of UConn and Caitlin Clark of Iowa — their first on-court meeting since 2021 — will have millions of TV viewers riveted. But neither player needs a title to validate her legacy.


Scoggins: College teams evaporate before fans' eyes in transfer portal nightmare

It was another rough transfer portal week for Ben Johnson's Gophers, the product of a system gone awry.


Scoggins: March Madness a travel puzzle for this Minnesota family

With one son at Iowa State and another playing for Minnesota State Mankato, the Jones family of Prior Lake has been zigzagging the country to watch NCAA basketball tournament games.


Scoggins: We can't go on like this: NIL chaos in six words.

Yes, student-athletes should be compensated. Yes, "name, image and likeness" is here to stay. But leaders should not accept the current approach as the proper way forward.


Scoggins: State tourney-bound player named Poet knows right word

Minneapolis South is headed to the boys basketball state tournament for the first time in 32 years because its floor leader, Poet Davis, stayed at the school while so many of his ex-teammates left.