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Article: Many-layered game keeps players sharp and creative; Contract bridge is experiencing a resurgence amid research that playing the card game not only may make kids smarter, but keeps players smarter longer.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 3, 2009
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Byline: KIM ODE; STAFF WRITER
When stories of competition are revolving around aging quarterbacks and lab rat outfielders, here's one about how some Minnesotans, sitting almost silently around a card table, ended up with the New York Times proclaiming them "giant-killers."
Let's go to the replay, Skip: Here we are at the Summer North American Contract Bridge Championships, watching as two-time national champs from Florida's District 9 are -- can it be? -- faltering against this Midwestern Cinderella team from District 14. Are the defending champs going down? Yes! The Minnesotans win! Do you believe in miracles?!?!
The "giant-killers" were ...