Charles Hallman is a contributing reporter and award-winning sports columnist at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
The newly crowned WNBA champions Minnesota Lynx had the option of going across the street from the arena to a private party at a downtown restaurant Wednesday night. Or take a rented limo out to Paisley Park in Chanhassen for a private concert given by the place’s owner.
Whether or not the players accepted Prince’s offer, nine times out of ten they’d probably still “party like it’s 1999.”
NFL fans, week after week, whether in person or on television, basically enjoy watching human car crashes on every play. Wonder how many are aware of the long-term, lasting effect that, despite wearing shoulder pads, helmets and other protective equipment, the hits that keep on coming actually have on the players.
Not since 2009 has the WNBA championship series gone the distance. But what a fitting conclusion for America’s longest running women’s pro league, “a very long and definitely exciting series,” proclaimed President Laurel Richie.
Maya Moore perhaps has swished two of the biggest shots in her illustrious career. The second one, a game winning three at the buzzer of Game 3 Friday that lifted the Lynx to a 80-77 victory over the Indiana Fever.
Dominique Wilkins to speak at 12th annual Diabetes EXPO
The 12th annual Diabetes EXPO will be held Saturday October 10, 9 am to 3 pm at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Organizers expect over 8,000 people from all over Minnesota and western Wisconsin to attend the free, one-day event.
When Carolyn Peck works a game from the studios, as she is doing for this year’s WNBA Finals, she admits there is no ‘home court advantage.’ “I see from the studio monitor the same thing that you see at home,” explained Peck. “When I’m working the game, I’m watching as a coach,” said the former WNBA coach-general manager, […]
For those who originally thought this year’s Minnesota-Indiana WNBA Finals would be a rematch of 2012, the last time the two clubs met for the championship, we borrow one of the top all-time movie lines: “Rematch? We don’t need any stinking rematch.”
One would be hard pressed to say anything bad about Rev. Noah Smith (1908-2015). He passed away September 24 at age 107 after a brief illness. His home-going service was held September 30 at Wayman AME Church in North Minneapolis.
In the October 1 issue of the MSR, we published a story on conditions for temporary workers at the Twins stadium (“Twins ballpark temps rally for better pay and working conditions”).
Blake Bolden is an honest-to-goodness professional hockey player. She is among the pioneering players in the inaugural National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL), which began this past weekend.
The 2015 Twin Cities Black Film Festival (TCBFF) will kick off four days of films, shorts and documentaries — all by Black filmmakers — Thursday, October 8 through Sunday, October 11 at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis.
Game Two of the WNBA Finals was different than Game 1: Unlike Sunday’s contest, where the home team were seemingly looking for a jump start — as well as a jump shot — the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday found something a bit more lasting — intensity.
According to a U.S Census report released mid-September, household incomes fell for Blacks in Minnesota and while they remain constant for whites, Hispanics and Asians.
If it was up to her, Carolyn Peck would be in Minneapolis in person for Game 2 of WNBA Finals on Tuesday.
“I would love to be at the game,” admitted the ESPN studio analyst Monday in a MSR phone interview. “Are you kidding me?”
Against a black background and on a square white platform within a larger stage, Roger Guenveur Smith put everything he had in Rodney King, a one-man play which opened Thursday night at Penumbra Theatre for a 11-show run.
Roger Guenveur Smith is in town for the next couple of weeks in his acclaimed Rodney King at the Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul.
During a MSR phone interview, Smith was asked about Actress Viola Davis, who recently won an Emmy for her performances in How to Get Away with Murder.
It’s not so much what happened in Game 1, but instead what adjustments the team — now down a game in the best-of-five championship series — will do for Game 2.
I know there are Blacks who like hockey, occasionally we run into one or two at games. But rarely, if ever, does the Only One find someone who looks like me in the press box or at media days.
Black lawyers nationwide are concerned about “prosecutor’s discretion” whether or not to file charges on police officers who shoot Blacks. The Cochran Firm, founded by late attorney Johnnie Cochran, earlier this summer released a “boiling point” timeline of police-related shootings of Blacks over a 12-month period from July 2014 to July 2015.
Award-winning actor Roger Guenveur Smith brings the late Rodney King to life on stage beginning this week at St. Paul’s Penumbra Theatre. Smith stars in Rodney King for eight shows, October 1 – 11.
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