Arkansas-Pine Bluff (APB) is one of two HBCUs playing the Gopher women this season at Williams Arena in what is...
Read more“This never gets old winning a major event,” Sports Minneapolis Executive Director Melvin Tennant proudly declared to an invited gathering...
Read moreBuford, a Canton, Mich. native, was the Gopher game-day program cover story for the annual preseason classic Minnesota hosts on...
Read moreAretha Franklin wasn’t called “The Queen of Soul” for being a one-hit wonder. Franklin died last week of pancreatic cancer...
Read more“It was my first team,” Betty Lennox recalled in a recent MSR phone interview. Just the season before, she and...
Read moreThe Minnesota Lynx’s first WNBA off-season saw two key players changing addresses. All-Star Tonya Edwards and long-on-potential but even-more-problematic Brandy...
Read moreNo more kneeling, holding hands, crossing arms, whatever some players, especially Black players, did before games last season to protest...
Read moreConclusion of a two-part column Dr. Richard Lapchick’s wide, wide worldly circle of friends includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was named...
Read moreOrigins of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport First of a two-part column For virtually his entire life,...
Read moreSince assuming office in 2014, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver seemingly likes to sow seeds of doubts about the WNBA’s future...
Read moreA seasoned Coach Staley advises new Coach Whalen Coach Dawn Staley New Gopher Women’s Basketball Coach Lindsay Whalen said in...
Read moreThe perennially underreported WNBA Draft is Thursday. It typically is barely discussed by the sports media, unlike the exhaustedly long...
Read moreIt’s not often that a reporter is on a first-name basis with hall of famers. Even more so to watch...
Read moreTwo Black head coaches made news within hours of each other last weekend. One coach had to offer a mea...
Read moreWomen have nearly closed the gaps Gene Smith The Sweet Sixteen round begins this week in men’s and women’s college...
Read moreIt might be March Madness now, but it’s been non-stop madness for the past 12 months, from assistant coaches getting...
Read more(l-r) Gopher freshman Destiny Pitts, Coach Marlene Stollings and Gopher junior Kenisha Bell March Madness is college sport’s Super Bowl...
Read moreThis columnist over the years has unabashedly rooted for Black coaches in all sports. Simply put, if a card-carrying member...
Read moreListening to Greatness: Part 3 Each of the 2017 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Sam Lacy Pioneer Award winners...
Read moreTom Thibodeau (l) and Scott Layden Why are the local media scared of Tom Thibodeau, the Minnesota Timberwolves president and...
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