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The Timberwolves continue with pre-draft workouts today when they are scheduled to workout forward Royce White of Iowa State, guard Jordan Taylor of Wisconsin, forward Drew Gordon of New Mexico, forward Draymond Green of Michigan State, forward Herb Pope of Seton Hall and guard Reggie Hamilton of Oakland University. Both White and Taylor are Minnesota natives. White played high school basketball at Hopkins and Taylor played at Benilde St. Margaret's.

The Twins reportedly agreed to a contract with 2nd overall pick Byron Buxton Monday. The 18-year old outfielder was selected in the first round (2nd overall) by the Twins in last Monday's baseball draft. Buxton is considered a 5-tool player right out of high school in Georgia. The new agreement with Buxton and the Twins is contingent on Buxton passing a physical today. Buxton is expected to report to rookie camp in Fort Myers, Florida.

St. Cloud went out to a 4-2 lead in the top of the 4th inning before Thunder Bay scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 4th to lead 6-4 and they never trailed again. Alex Roberts allowed 13 hits and 5 earned runs in 3 innings to take the loss for the Rox. Chris Paul was 3-5 at the plate for St. Cloud with 1 run scored and Boo Vazquez had 2 hits and 2 RBIs for the Rox.

The popular summer concert series "Summertime By George" is back for a second year. The first night is tomorrow (Wednesday) with the band The Revolution 5 playing music from the Beetles.

The new hockey conference that St. Cloud State is joining in 2013-2014 has a major announcement planned at Target Center today. The National Collegiate Hockey Conference has a new conference planned this afternoon at the Target Center lobby today to announce that the NCHC postseason tournament will be held at Target Center starting in 2014. The new NCHC will consist of the following schools; St. Cloud State, Colorado College, Denver, Miami of Ohio, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota, and Western Michigan.

The Twins lost 8-2 home to the Chicago Cubs Sunday afternoon. Minnesota was trying for a sweep of the 3-game series. Ryan Dempster threw 8 shutout innings with 4 hits allowed to get the win and improve to 2-3. Francisco Liriano allowed 4 hits, 3 walks and 4 earned runs allowed to take the loss and drop to 1-7. Jamey Carroll was 2-4 with 1 RBI and Trevor Plouffe was 2-4 for the Twins.

On this episode of "Outdoors Tip of the Week," Jerry talks about the perks of using plastic bait. Our series is brought to you by Del-Tone Luth Gun Club. Shot/edited by Abby Faulkner.

The Twins defeated the Chicago Cubs 11-3 Saturday afternoon behind Joe Mauer. Mauer had missed 4 games with a thumb injury but in his first game back was 3-4 with a run scored and 2 RBIs. Trevor Plouffe had another solid game going 2-4 with his 9th homerun of the season. Justin Morneau went 2-2 with 2 runs scored for Minnesota. Scott Diamond threw 6 shutout innings with 7 hits allowed with 5 strikeouts to get the win and improve to 5-1.

The 48th annual Waite Park Family Fun Fest will wrap-up today (Sunday) with a fishing contest.

The Twins have won 8 of their last 10 after beating the Chicago Cubs 8-7 in 10 innings Friday night. Josh Willingham's RBI single in the 10th won the game for Minnesota. The Twins trailed 5-2 before taking a 6-5 lead. The Cubs got a 2-run homerun from Rafael Soriano to take a 7-6 lead. Justin Morneau's RBI triple scored Willingham in the 9th inning to tie the game. Trevor Plouffe and Ryan Doumit each had 2 hits including a solo homerun for Minnesota and Ben Revere added 3 hits for the Twins.