Editing Duluth, Minnesota (section)

===Professional sports history===
====Football====
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{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan=5 | Duluth in the [[National Football League|NFL]]
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! Year !! W !! L !! T !! Finish
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| colspan="5" | '''Kelleys'''
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| 1923 || 4 || 3 || 0 || 7th
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| 1924 || 5 || 1 || 0 || 4th
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| 1925 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 16th
|-
| colspan="5" | '''Eskimos'''
|-
| 1926 || 6 || 5 || 3 || 8th
|-
| 1927 || 1 || 8 || 0 || 11th
|}
</div>
Duluth fielded a [[National Football League]] team called the [[Duluth Kelleys/Eskimos|Kelleys]] (officially the Kelley Duluths after the Kelley-Duluth Hardware Store) from 1923 to 1925. It also fielded the Eskimos (officially<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/dulutheskimos.shtml|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130125080713/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/dulutheskimos.shtml|url-status=dead|title=HickokSports.com – History – Duluth Kelleys 1923–25; Duluth Eskimos 1926–27<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=January 25, 2013|access-date=August 8, 2024}}</ref> [[Ernie Nevers]]' Eskimos after the early NFL great, their star player) from 1926 to 1927. The Eskimos were then sold and became the [[Orange Tornadoes]] ([[Orange, New Jersey]]). This bit of history became the basis for the 2008 George Clooney/Renée Zellweger movie, ''[[Leatherheads]]''.

====Baseball====
The [[Duluth–Superior Dukes]] of the [[Northern League (baseball, 1993–2010)|Northern League Independent Professional Baseball]] played in West Duluth's [[Wade Stadium]] from the league's inception in 1993 until 2002 when the team moved to Kansas City, Kansas, after which it became the [[Kansas City T-Bones]]. The Dukes were Northern League champions in 1997. [[Northern League (baseball, 1902–71)|An earlier Northern League]], based in the Midwest, was also in operation off and on from 1902 to 1971, the longest stint being 1932–1971. The Dukes were also a farm team for the Detroit Tigers from 1960 to 1964 and several other teams in later years before the Northern League folded in 1971. The Dukes produced notable players such as Denny McLain, Bill Freehan, Gates Brown, Ray Oyler, Jim Northrup, Mickey Stanley, John Hiller, and Willie Horton, all of whom were members of the 1968 world champion Detroit Tigers.

====Boxing====
Duluth is also home to Horton's Gym, the home gym of professional [[Boxing|boxers]] [[Zach Walters|Zach "Jungle Boy" Walters]] and [[Andy Kolle]], as well as a number of other professional prizefighters. Horton's Gym was run by Chuck Horton from 1994 to 2011. During that time, Horton trained some of the most recognized professional and amateur boxers in Minnesota such as Walters, Kolle, RJ Lasse, Gary Eyer and Wayne Putnam. In 2011, Horton turned the gym over to Zach Walters so that Horton could concentrate solely on training professional boxers; Walters then changed the gym's name to Jungle Boy Boxing Gym. Horton is currently the trainer of Al Sands; Sands won the [[North American Boxing Association]]'s U.S. Cruiserweight title in April 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sports |first=Eyewitness |date=April 20, 2014 |title=Two Titles for Duluth's Al Sands |url=http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/s3406046.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714131011/http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/s3406046.shtml |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |access-date=July 10, 2014 |publisher=wdio.com}}</ref>

====Indoor football====
The [[Duluth-Superior Lumberjacks]] played in the [[Indoor Football League (1999-2000)|IFL]] for 2 seasons (1999–2000). The Jacks' home games were played at the DECC Arena.

On April 5, 2023, Duluth was announced as the second of four teams to be in [[The Arena League]], an indoor football league, to start play in 2024. The [[Duluth Entertainment Convention Center|DECC Arena]] is the host venue for the [[Duluth Harbor Monsters]].