>> Suddenly, it appears Glen Taylor could be the best suitor to buy the Twins.

First, some smart people have become skeptical of Taylor’s chances of winning the $1.5 billion arbitration hearing for control of the Timberwolves and Lynx against Alex Rodriguez, Marc Lore and Michael Bloomberg.

If Taylor, 83, loses, as a goodwill legacy gesture, he might be willing to spend the $1.5 billion or so on the Twins. People who know say the way Major League

Baseball is structured now, it’s difficult to make money on a cash-flow basis. What would be ideal for Minnesota is a local buyer who wants the Twins for the community, not for cash flow.

>> If local Cambria quartz magnate-baseball fan Marty Davis were to end up with the Twins, don’t be surprised if former Twins Justin Morneau, Joe Mauer and Kent Hrbek are sought for the front office.

Meanwhile, there now is reason to believe the Pohlad family might not sell the Twins after all if it doesn’t get its price.

>> Major League Baseball requires extensive background information from prospective buyers. Most likely, if the Twins are sold, it will take until mid-2025 to determine who will end up owning the team.

>> The minimum requirement from MLB for controlling interest in a team is $400 million. The league allows up to 25 limited investors.

>> Over the 40 years that the Pohlads have owned the Twins, if they end up getting about $1.5 billion in a sale, they will have had an annual return of about 14 percent. Most business transactions of that magnitude expect a return of about 20 percent.

>> It still looks like, either near the end of this season or early next season, Vikings WR Jordan Addison will receive a three-game suspension for a charge of driving under the influence in July in Los Angeles. The Vikings hope the legal process gets drawn out enough to at least get through this season, then having time to figure out how to plug Addison’s absence for next season.

Addison is second on team behind Justin Jefferson with 19 catches for 273 yards.

>> If he continues at his current pace, Kirill Kaprizov’s next contract with the Wild could approach $15 million a season. Kaprizov, 27, is in the fourth season of a $45 million, five-year deal. He can become an unrestricted free agent after the 2025-26 season. The Wild can’t re-sign him until July 1, but owner Craig Leipold insists he will.

>> Pssst: Gophers freshman football star Koi Perich is getting $250,000 this season in a name, image and likeness (NIL) deal. That deal will be a lot more next year.

>> Word is Dain Dainja, the 6-9, 255-pound former Park Center center, is getting $800,000 in NIL for his senior season at Memphis. He played for Illinois last season, Baylor before that.

>> Notre Dame QB Riley Leonard is playing for $1.3 million via NIL this season.

>> Tommy Ahneman, the 6-10, 250-pound Cretin-Derham Hall center who has committed to Notre Dame, is part of the Fighting Irish’s 2025 No. 1 recruiting class in America. He’ll become wealthy at Notre Dame. In the classroom, he has a 3.5 grade-point average.

>> One of Minnesota’s greatest golfers, John Harris, 72, is doing fine after a leukemia diagnosis in March. The former U.S. Amateur champion, PGA Champions Tour champion and four-time U.S. Walker Cup member from Roseau will have a bone marrow transplant at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., on Nov. 26. Many in the golf community are pulling for him.

>> Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia, who this season led the Commodores’ upset of then-No. 1 Alabama, was brought to Vanderbilt by Jerry Kill, the former Gophers head coach who is a senior offensive assistant. Kill was able to get five top players to transfer this season from New Mexico State, which he coached to the New Mexico Bowl last season.

>> The Gophers in 1959 signed basketball coach Johnny Kundla, at age 42, after he coached the Minneapolis Lakers to six world championships, to a four-year contract at $12,000 a year. He was paid $13,500 a year by Lakers.

>> Only Penn State has better players than the Gophers on Minnesota’s remaining regular-season schedule.

>> Scouts say the best post-Gophers basketball opportunity for 6-11 Dawson Garcia next year is overseas, not the NBA.

>> Colorado State’s Niko Medved from Roseville remains the logical choice if the Gophers men’s basketball program makes a coaching change after the season.

>> For the Timberwolves last season, Karl-Anthony Towns averaged 21.8 points and 8.3 rebounds. For the New York Knicks this season, he’s averaging 23.8 points and 13 rebounds.

>> Sports Gossip Show co-host Madeline Hill on the Towns trade from the Timberwolves to the Knicks, on NBA Stein Line: “His girlfriend, Jordyn Woods, really got the courtside upgrade of a lifetime. Can you imagine learning that you’re going from courtside in Minnesota to courtside at Madison Square Garden next to Spike Lee? It’s the equivalent of going from eating brand cereal your mom forced you to eat as a kid to devouring Cinnamon Toast Crunch every day in the dining hall in college.”

>> In a week, the 2025 WNBA draft lottery will be held. The Lynx, due to their runner-up finish to the champion Liberty, won’t be among the top four picks, therefore not eligible to choose former Hopkins star Paige Bueckers of Connecticut. Bueckers could be the No. 1 pick in the draft.

>> A little birdie says there is considerable jockeying underway within the Twins’ front office for the vacant general manager job.

>> Of the 47 men’s college basketball teams that have transitioned to Division I since 2000, St. Thomas is the only school that has won 19 or more games in its second and third seasons.

>> With just next year left on his contract, ex-Viking Adam Thielen, 34, of the Carolina Panthers has withdrawn from a golf trip he was registered for in Northern Ireland in November 2025.

>> People who know say that only two of Major League Soccer’s 29 franchises make money, and the Minnesota United Loons are not among them.

Overheard

>> Three-time Super Bowl champion Devin McCourty of NBC Sports, on Vikings QB Sam Darnold: “As awesome as he has been, I think that’s going to be the thing that holds the Vikings back against the elite teams. Is he going to be able to rise to the next level.”