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 […]
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WNBA players demonstrate Olympic-class commitment
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 W in Rio The 2016 USA Women’s National Team begins its Olympic quest for gold Sunday against Senegal […]
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Local WNBA alumnus reflects on career highlights
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 city in the house Tracy Henderson, a Minneapolis Henry and Georgia grad, was the first city native to […]
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Women’s sports coverage still ‘dismally low’
It’s too bad that the latest on women’s sports coverage is still the same old story. “Even when the media do cover women’s sport, the coverage often trivializes women’s athleticism and hetro-sexualizes female athletes,” said Purdue Professor Cheryl Cooky in the Washington Post’s Kevin Blackistone article published in June. Cooky, along with Michael Messner and […]
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The ABL blazed the trail for the WNBA
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: Remember the ABL. With nearly a third of the season completed, the American Basketball League (ABL) unexpectedly called off […]
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Community comes out for Lynx after T-shirt dust-up
Philando Castile’s would have turned 33 years old Saturday, July 16. Instead, family, friends and thousands of community members attended his funeral two days before. “It was a beautiful moment,” said Antonio Johnson on his cousin’s funeral Thursday in St. Paul, He was one of the pallbearers. “We were like brothers and best friends as well.” He and […]
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Growing up with WNBA role models
WNBA ‘astounding woman’ calls it quits The New York Liberty on Friday makes its final visit of the season to face the host Minnesota Lynx. It also will be Swin Cash’s final visit of her illustrious career. Cash, whose first name, Swintayla, means “astounding woman,” announced earlier this season her plan to retire after 15 […]
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Growing up with WNBA role models
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: Being in awe. It wasn’t that long ago when the only choice for professional employment for women basketball players […]
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UPDATED: Lynx players wear shirts to honor victims of violence and raise awareness
UPDATE: After this story was published, it was reported that four off-duty police officers walked out of the Lynx game on Saturday, July 9, to protest Lynx players who held a pregame press conference to speak about racial profiling and the fatal shooting of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and five Dallas police officers last week. On Tuesday, July […]
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Test your knowledge of Lynx diversity
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 Lynx’s winningest Black coach and other team diversity firsts Diversity in the Minnesota Lynx organization for most of […]
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Sisters lead among WNBA’s greatest
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: Sisters rule Black women have been uniquely instrumental in almost every aspect of the WNBA from its beginning through […]
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Augustus and the W: a generation’s vision fulfilled
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: History meets history The Katie Smith trade in July 2005 was perhaps the worst deal in both Minnesota Lynx […]
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Three current Lynx players make WNBA Top 20@20 list
The 20 greatest and most influential players in WNBA history were announced today, and three current Minnesota Lynx players, and a former player, are among those chosen by a 15-member committee of Hall of Famers, current and former coaches, and media members. Seimone Augustus, Maya Moore and Lindsay Whalen, and former Lynx player Katie Smith, […]
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Three current Lynx players make WNBA Top 20@20 list
The 20 greatest and most influential players in WNBA history were announced today, and three current Minnesota Lynx players, and a former player, are among those chosen by a 15-member committee of Hall of Famers, current and former coaches, and media members. Seimone Augustus, Maya Moore and Lindsay Whalen, and former Lynx player Katie Smith, […]
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Coach Peck made her mark in both college and pro hoops
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: history overlooked During the course of its 20-year history, 31 of the 75 WNBA all-time head coaches have been […]
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The frustrations and pleasures of covering women’s sports
I recently was in Cleveland on assignment. While walking around the downtown area, a virtual ghost town because it was an hour before Game 2 of the NBA Finals, the few people we did run into wore something with Cavs on them in support for their Cavaliers. You’d be hard pressed not to miss the […]