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Arkansas-Pine Bluff (APB) is one of two HBCUs playing the Gopher women this season at Williams Arena in what is...

“This never gets old winning a major event,” Sports Minneapolis Executive Director Melvin Tennant proudly declared to an invited gathering...

Buford, a Canton, Mich. native, was the Gopher game-day program cover story for the annual preseason classic Minnesota hosts on...

Aretha Franklin wasn’t called “The Queen of Soul” for being a one-hit wonder. Franklin died last week of pancreatic cancer...

“It was my first team,” Betty Lennox recalled in a recent MSR phone interview. Just the season before, she and...

The 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...

No more kneeling, holding hands, crossing arms, whatever some players, especially Black players, did before games last season to protest...

Conclusion of a two-part column Dr. Richard Lapchick’s wide, wide worldly circle of friends includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was named...

Origins of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport First of a two-part column For virtually his entire life,...

Since assuming office in 2014, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver seemingly likes to sow seeds of doubts about the WNBA’s future...

A seasoned Coach Staley advises new Coach Whalen Coach Dawn Staley New Gopher Women’s Basketball Coach Lindsay Whalen said in...

The perennially underreported WNBA Draft is Thursday. It typically is barely discussed by the sports media, unlike the exhaustedly long...

It’s not often that a reporter is on a first-name basis with hall of famers. Even more so to watch...

Two Black head coaches made news within hours of each other last weekend. One coach had to offer a mea...

Women have nearly closed the gaps Gene Smith The Sweet Sixteen round begins this week in men’s and women’s college...

It might be March Madness now, but it’s been non-stop madness for the past 12 months, from assistant coaches getting...

(l-r) Gopher freshman Destiny Pitts, Coach Marlene Stollings and Gopher junior Kenisha Bell March Madness is college sport’s Super Bowl...

This columnist over the years has unabashedly rooted for Black coaches in all sports. Simply put, if a card-carrying member...

Listening to Greatness: Part 3 Each of the 2017 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Sam Lacy Pioneer Award winners...

Tom Thibodeau (l) and Scott Layden Why are the local media scared of Tom Thibodeau, the Minnesota Timberwolves president and...