>> It will be interesting whether the Vikings can find a way to push back a court date, scheduled for Oct. 7, until after the season for Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison, charged with two misdemeanors after an arrest in Los Angeles last month. Addison is expected to receive a three-game suspension from the NFL.

If Addison is suspended, the remainder of his $13.8 million, four-year contract is expected to go from guaranteed to non-guaranteed. He was the Vikings’ first-round draft pick in 2023. There is little doubt the Vikings, after the season, will seek, via free agency, trade or draft, another top wide receiver because Addison has proven unreliable.

>> Ex-Vikings running back Dalvin Cook, 28, after last season with the Jets and Ravens, remains unsigned. He was paid $7 million last year but will be fortunate to make $2 million this year.

>> Rocco Baldelli played baseball virtually every day as a youngster in Woonsocket, R.I., with his dad, brother and neighbors.

“My dad (Rocky) always said, ‘Catch the ball with two hands,’ ” Baldelli told the Pioneer Press.

Today, it’s rare to see a major leaguer use two hands to make a catch. Twins outfielders Byron Buxton and Max Kepler use one hand to make catches.

That doesn’t bother Rocco, the Twins manager, because today’s players are so skilled.

“They catch everything,” Baldelli said.

>> In Friday evening’s important victory over Cleveland, North St. Paul grad Louie Varland’s four-seam fastball reached 98.5-mph, his fastest pitch for the Twins right-hander in seven outings this season.

>> The Angels the other day acquired former Gophers pitcher George Klassen, whose 99-mph fastball makes him a sleeper in a trade with the Phillies.

>> The longer an arbitration hearing takes to determine ownership of the Timberwolves and Lynx seems to indicate the NBA is trying to broker a deal to make the dispute go away.

>> Tommy Ahneman, the 6-11, 240-pound incoming basketball senior at Cretin-Derham Hall, is Minnesota’s top college prospect. He was North Dakota’s player of the year as a junior last season and currently ranks No. 48 among the country’s top 50 players. Ahneman is just 17 years old.

The way it looks now, Ahneman’s college commitment will be to either the Big Ten or Notre Dame in the ACC. His five finalists — currently there’s no favorite — are Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Irish. Academically, he has a 3.3 grade point average.

Besides Ahneman, the consensus Minnesota top-five incoming seniors are, in order: 6-10 Chase Thompson, Alexandria; 6-6 Nolan Groves, Orono; 6-2 Anthony Smith, Hopkins; 6-6 Jalen Wilson, Benilde-St. Margaret’s.

>> Buzz about a remodel of Williams Arena could diminish now that the Gophers athletics department could end up having to budget some $22 million annually beginning next year to pay athletes via name, image and likeness deals.

>> Good guesses: Joe Mauer’s Twins Target Field statue, to be completed next year, will represent him as a catcher even though he won three batting titles; Brock Faber someday will wear the Wild’s captain jersey.

>> Besides a new guaranteed $68 million, eight-year contract that begins in 2025, Faber, 21, the other day received performance bonuses of $375,000 for last season. Included was $150,000 for being fifth overall in the NHL for total ice time and sixth overall in average ice time.

>> In 1979, Jerry Koosman, born in Appleton, Minn., won 20 games for a Twins team that finished 82-80. Before that, the left-hander won three World Series games for the Mets, who three years ago in a ceremony in New York retired his No. 36 jersey.

These days, Koosman, 81, resides in Osceola, Wis. He hasn’t played his beloved golf — he was a five-handicapper when he lived in Florida — for a half-dozen years due to neuropathy affecting his feet and knees.

“I think about golf all the time,” Koosman said last week. “I just wish I could play again.”

He’s had two heart attacks “that slowed me up a little,” he said with a laugh.

He remains a delightful personality.

“They put me on more damn pills, and the pills caused more problems than anything,” he said. “Lost my taste buds for a couple months, but I’m starting to get back to normal.”

He has a pacemaker for his heart.

“It’s working fine,” he said. “I do all my yard work. My stamina isn’t there like it used to be — your chest kind of lets you know that. I can’t walk more than a block or two. I wish I could get out more.”

This summer, after 12½ years, Koosman lost his border collie named Buddy after his beloved dog suffered two heart attacks.

Still, Kooz is fun and remains upbeat.

“I’m still enjoying every minute I’m above ground,” he said.

>> Among the thousands of airline flights that were canceled a few weeks ago due to a massive national computer outage was Tony Oliva’s flight from his trip to Cooperstown, N.Y., for Joe Mauer’s Hall of Fame induction on a Sunday.

Oliva, the Twins Hall of Famer, finally made it home nearly four days later by renting a car in Chicago.

“But if you’re going to be stuck in some place, it’s better to be stuck in Cooperstown,” Tony said.

The trek home to Bloomington from Cooperstown was taxing. Oliva is 86 years old.

“You know,” he said, “I’m no spring chicken.”

>> Quietly, the NFL is pushing to go from a 17-game regular season to 18 games within two years, plus 16 international games played every year. That would mean every other year the Vikings would play one game internationally, with one game counted as a home game, the other year as an away game.

In the NFL’s labor agreement, players currently receive 48.8% of overall revenue. Look for players to seek 50%. That will be the bargaining focus for the next negotiation.

>> Golden Valley Country Club has reopened after a one-year remodel and $12,000 assessment for corporate members. Meanwhile, Interlachen Country Club in Edina opened this weekend after a major remodel and $20,000 assessment per corporate members.

>> Inexplicably absent from the Vikings Ring of Honor is St. Paul’s Matt Birk, a six-time Pro Bowl center.

>> Hall of Fame former Twin Joe Mauer, retired as a multi-millionaire at age 41, on his future: “When I was playing, my family gave me all their time. Now I’m giving them all my time.”