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Sports: Local and national sports reporting and commentary by the state’s leading African American sportswriters, including award-winning columnists Charles Hallman and Dr. Mitchell Palmer McDonald, with a special emphasis on the local prep scene and disparities in sports administration and media coverage.

Sports

Three-point review of Gophers men’s and women’s basketball

November 30, 2011 - by MSR News Online

      By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   A seven-game review of Minnesota women’s basketball at this point of the season yields the following three points: First point: Billed …

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The toughest game of a career – Gophers college football seniors exit the field for junior student-athletes

November 30, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    By Kenneth Foxworth Contributing Writer   The hardest time of the year for senior student-athletes is the last game of their college career. This, after the five years …

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News / Sports

2011 Hiring Report Card released

November 30, 2011 - by MSR News Online

  Are 22 Black hires out of 250  vacancies a ‘shinning example of change?’     We are now in college football’s annual firing and hiring season. Coincidentally, the 2010-2011 …

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Sports

Kwame McDonald: Why so many will miss him so much

November 23, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    If one wanted to get in line to share their thoughts about the late Kwame McDonald, whose columns appeared weekly on the MSR sports pages for over two …

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Sports

Analysts speculate on season’s outlook for college women

November 23, 2011 - by MSR News Online

  By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   ESPN Analysts Carolyn Peck and Kara Lawson recently discussed this season’s women’s college basketball storylines. Here are some of their observations: 1) A …

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Sports

49ers rule the Bay Area

November 23, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    SAN FRANCISCO — Yes, the 49ers are back after dominating the Arizona Cardinals 23-7 at Candlestick Park Sunday for their eighth-straight win. The 49ers (9-1) are riding the …

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Sports

Hoops odds and ends – More women’s games on ESPN — but still just a blip

November 16, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   ESPN will show a record-high 130 women’s basketball games this season on its family of channels: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3. Along …

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Sports

Packers delete Vikings 45-7

November 16, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    GREEN BAY — It’s no longer a rivalry, folks — it has turned into a one-sided reality show in which the Minnesota Vikings can no longer compete with …

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Sports

Stephens inducted into U of M Hall of Fame

November 16, 2011 - by MSR News Online

        By Kenneth Foxworth Contributing Writer   November 12, 2011 was an unseasonably warm autumn day. Ongoing was a battle between the University of Minnesota and our …

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Sports

College sport management remains overwhelmingly White, male

November 16, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    A reported all-time high of 17 Black head college football coaches this season looks promising, but only if we overlook the continued poor diversity numbers in key leadership …

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Sports

Stop the punting of the Vikings! Minnesotans unite with a ‘Fan Response Movement’ to keep the team

November 10, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    In 2002, I wrote the following in my book The Minneapolis Story, Through My Eyes: “The Plan of the movers and shakers of Minneapolis is to move the …

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Sports

Gopher football team gets goal-driven new counselor

November 10, 2011 - by MSR News Online

  Her main goal is to see these student-athletes graduate       A chance conversation with professors during her senior year in college proved to be a career changer …

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Sports

Unexpected happenings in sports

November 10, 2011 - by MSR News Online

  The NFL season has reached the midway point, and the Packers are perfect at 8-0.   The NBA lockout has already lost the first month of the season as …

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Sports

Hoops odds and ends – By Charles Hallman

November 10, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    U of M 2011-’12 hoops season begins     By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Gopher basketball officially begins this week: The women play this Friday afternoon at …

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Sports

St. Cloud State image makeover is lipstick on a pig

November 2, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    By Myrle Cooper Guest Commentator   St. Cloud State University (SCSU) recently hired Earthbound Media Group (EMG) for a panic-driven brand rescue effort to redefine its image. “The …

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Sports

Kwame gives us his last words on local sports

November 2, 2011 - by MSR News Online

    Editor’s note: This is MSR Senior Columnist Kwame McDonald’s final column, as told to Staff Writer Charles Hallman last month.   I was probably 25, 26 years old …

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Sports

Another View, by Charles Hallman—Where are the Black experts on women and sports?

November 2, 2011 - by MSR News Online

  The University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport is hosting the North American Society of Sport Sociology’s annual meeting November 3-6. In lieu …

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Sports

Thanks, Kwame!

November 2, 2011 - by MSR News Online

By Larry Fitzgerald Staff Writer   It was a decade ago, give or take a few years, that Mrs. Norma Jean Williams, vice president of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, and I …

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Sports

Pokey Chatman took roundabout route to Chicago

October 26, 2011 - by MSR News Online

By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Pokey Chatman completed her first season with the WNBA as the Chicago Sky’s head coach and general manager. She was the only Black woman …

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Sports

Prep Scene, by Mitchell Palmer McDonald—St. Paul quietly builds football dynasty

October 26, 2011 - by MSR News Online

Don’t look now, but St. Paul Central football coach SCOTT HOWELL has quietly built a dynasty at his alma mater.   Howell, a 1984 Central alum who was an all-metro …

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