For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section is featuring a column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. This week: Overseas we go. Unless you are a WNBA player on the rosters of the final two teams still competing […]
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Lynx players encourage and coach kids in North Mpls
The Minnesota Lynx starters — Seimone Augustus, Maya Moore, Rebekkah Brunson, Sylvia Fowles and Lindsay Whalen — hosted nearly 50 local boys and girls from a North Minneapolis elementary school, and taught them game fundamentals and values on the day after their Game 1 buzzer-beater defeat. WNBA President Lisa Borders sat in her workout gear […]
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WNBA Finals | Lynx take Game 2 with commanding win
At least one person among the reported sellout crowd of 12,832 knew the host Minnesota Lynx would win Tuesday night by at least double figures. “I had predicted [earlier that day] that we would win by 12,” noted Tonyus Chavers to the MSR after the Lynx’s 79-60 victory over Los Angeles to even the series […]
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WNBA Finals Preview | Lynx vs Sparks — match up of league’s best
League officials realigned the post-season over the off-season so that the two best teams, regardless of conference, play for the WNBA championship. As a result, top-seeded Minnesota and second-seeded Los Angeles are meeting Sunday in Minneapolis for the best-of-five league championship, the first time in WNBA history that a Western Conference club is assured to […]
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WNBA’s Cooper has coached many of the best
For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section is featuring a column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. This week: best seat in the house Michael Cooper’s place in W history is well secured and most deserved. He is […]
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Lynx take 2-0 lead against Mercury in semifinals series
A retired basketball official who I sat next to at the Lynx’s 10-point win against Mercury Friday night consistently shook his head at the officiating. During halftime he received a text at halftime that called one of the three zebras “single-handedly terrible.” It may have been an ugly win, but “Every time you get a win, […]
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Lynx overcome slow start to win playoff opener
The Minnesota Lynx outscored visiting Phoenix in the second quarter by almost two-to- one en route to a 113-95 victory in the first game of the semifinals. Lynx Assistant Coach Jim Petersen told the MSR afterwards that giving up 57 second-half points to the Mercury simply won’t do.“We got to do better,” he said. Phoenix got 25 points […]
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WNBA playoffs notebook
Each spring March Madness signals the start of the college basketball’s post season, but league officials have yet to coin a catch phrase for the new WNBA playoff format, which begins Wednesday. The first two rounds —“one and done” is the first such post season elimination setup since the league’s first season, when only three […]
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WNBA regular season wrap-up
For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section is featuring a column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. This week: Watch them work Like the ’60s series Naked City, there are thousands of WNBA stories to tell: Such as […]
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Founding WNBA president proud to see league flourish
For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section is featuring a column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. This week: Fond memories Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman proudly looks back at what she was an integral part of and […]
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Lynx clinch top seed, play first two playoff games at home
On Sunday, the Minnesota Lynx clinched the top overall seed and home court advantage throughout this year’s playoffs, which begins September 21. However, the team officials announced Monday that the first two home playoff games will be held at the Minnesota Wild’s home due to scheduling conflicts at the Lynx’s home arena in downtown Minneapolis. […]
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‘Country girl from Dayton’ helped lay Lynx foundation
For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section is featuring a column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. This week: watching the box scores One can’t blame Tamika Williams Raymond if she keeps a daily watch on the league’s […]
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Twenty questions from 20 years of WNBA history
To test your WNBA knowledge, here is our 20 in 20 quiz: And a bonus question: Name the WNBA team that has hired the most Black head coaches in history. Find the answers to these questions here. Charles Hallman welcomes reader responses to challman@spokesman-recorder.com.
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The Shot heard ‘round the WNBA world
For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section is featuring a column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. This week: ‘The Shot’ There are many “iconic images” in the 20-year history of the WNBA. Maya Moore’s buzzer beater in […]
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WNBA president encourages players to continue speaking out
WNBA President Lisa Borders said she is encouraging players to continue making their voices heard on current issues. Last month Borders fined New York, Indiana and Phoenix players for violating league uniform rules after they wore black T-shirts in protest of recent police shootings, as well as the shooting of Dallas police officers. But the first-year league […]
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Maya Moore on renewing focus after Olympic high
The Minnesota Lynx nine-game post-Olympics schedule begins Friday in Connecticut. They and Los Angeles both are playoff bound after clinching spots prior to the league’s month-long break. Six post-season slots are still in play — only San Antonio and the Sun more than likely are playing out the string as party blockers for the remaining teams still in contention […]
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It’s back to business as usual for Olympic hoopsters
For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section will feature a column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. This week: back to work The 2016 WNBA regular season resumes this week after a nearly a month off. But for […]
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Quinn’s staying power sees her through 10 seasons so far
For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section will feature a column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. This week: sticking it out Noelle Quinn became a part of WNBA league history in 2007. The six-foot guard was the […]
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WNBA rookies on the rise
For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section will feature a column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. This week: The rest of 2016 draft class Seattle’s Breanna Stewart, judging from election-year talk, is the presumptive rookie of the […]
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WNBA coaches put Olympic break time to good use
The WNBA is now on a month-long Olympic break because many of its players are participating in Rio. But while league play is on pause, we recently asked if the time off is an advantage or a disadvantage, and for whom. “I think all the teams just look at it” as positively as possible, says […]