A bit of a non-World Cup announcement this morning. Today – last night, really – marks the official launch of SB Nation Minnesota, which is part of the SB Nation network’s nationwide stab at local sites. They’ve always had great team-specific sites – Twinkie Town, Canis Hoopus, Hockey Wilderness, Daily Norseman, and the Daily Gopher are the blogs of interest to local fans – but now the network is launching sites that cover an entire area. Minnesota’s just the latest of a bunch of them.

I already write for two of the aforementioned sites, and now, I’ll be contributing at the local site as well, with one feature a week, plus other random commentary. My first feature went up last night – an opinion piece about the fans who are always calling for the coach’s head.

I’ve also written a number of other short posts over there, all of which you can see here. But really, just read the whole site: http://minnesota.sbnation.com .

As I’ve done for Twinkie Town and Canis Hoopus, I’ll post the links to the longer features here as well. I hope you’ll check out the new site – it should be fun.

(On the subject of Twinkie Town, I wrote something about Drew Butera on Monday. Suffice it to say that the title is “On Futility.”)