Sports

There are those who always talk about giving back to the community and those who simply do it. Here are five former metro-area prep stars who are giving back. DEREK REUBEN made a name for himself as a standout boys’ basketball player for Minneapolis during the late 1980s. He held the 18th annual Inner City […]

The WNBA, which began in 1997, is celebrating its 15th year this summer. However, it would be just a year younger than the American Basketball League (ABL) if it hadn’t gone bankrupt after two seasons (1996-97 and 1997-98) and 12 games of the 1998-99 season. Since 1975, there have been at least six women’s pro […]

PHOENIX — Major League Baseball, the league that plays the most games and has the longest lasting season, gave every sports fan in the world something they wanted — a game. The 82nd edition of the mid-summer classic is an exhibition game, but sports fans are thirsty and hungry for a real game. Baseball, like […]

By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Athletes lose weight for various reasons, but mainly in order to perform better in their respective sport. This was partly the case for Minnesota Lynx second-year center Jessica Adair. But the George Washington graduate had an even more important reason to shed unwanted pounds. “Diabetes runs in my family. My […]

Minnesota Lynx guard Candice Wiggins is expected to speak after Saturday’s game as part of the team’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Night event. Wiggins has been very prominent in speaking on the effects of the disease. She founded the Candice Wiggins Foundation in 2008 as an effort to reach out to youth about the deadly disease and […]

Tiger Woods has not won in quite some time; however, his impact on the game of golf is far reaching. Anybody who plays the game and is serious about it tries to play like Tiger, or look like him when they play. Every week you can see the eye of the Tiger on Wednesday about […]

The University of Minnesota football team held its annual Youth Day Out for more than 200 energized participants at TCF Bank Stadium last Thursday afternoon. Despite the warm weather the youth, ages 9-14, got the opportunity to interact with Gophers players and participate in football drills. The drills were followed by a meet-and-greet session in […]

Patience is a virtue, and Major League Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint. Having said that: The Twins, after losing five straight and being swept by the Milwaukee Brewers, are back in last place in the American League Central. Unless edged out by Twins All-Star Joe Mauer (who skipped the first two months of […]

If basketball players are often asked to work on their game during the off-season, why not basketball officials? Thirty officials worked Tubby Smith’s three-day boys’ basketball team camp at the University of Minnesota last week, including veterans and those newer to the profession. Nearly half the group was African American, many of them there to […]

By Charles Hallman Staff Writer With their professional lives currently on hold due to their employers locking them out, brothers and NFL players Marion Barber III and Dominique Barber instead occupied their time recently not on the picket line but outside in the hot sun working with local kids. Around 160 elementary school-age kids and […]

By being the only Twin-Cities reporter to cover the NBA Finals year in and year out, I must say you certainly gain perspective on how far the Timberwolves are from being relevant in the NBA. As if 32 wins and 130 losses is not enough proof over the last two years, it really takes covering […]

Alexis Hornbuckle recalls the somewhat difficult fitting-in process when she was acquired in a midseason trade last summer, a time when roles had already been defined back in training camp and redefined as the season progressed. Topping that was the fact that she joined a Minnesota Lynx team midway through a year marred with injuries […]

APIEW OJULU (Lakeville North) and ROSS TRAVIS (Chaska) were the MVPs of the 18th Annual Inner City All-Star Classic held last weekend at Schoenecker Arena on the University of St. Thomas campus. In the girls’ game, Ojulu scored all of her game-high 10 points in the second half to lead Team Truth to a 37-36 […]

  MIAMI — Take that, Dallas Cowboys! While the NFL lockout continues, the Dallas Mavericks have made their move, finally putting themselves into the Texas state of NBA champions: San Antonio, Houston, and now Dallas, all NBA World Champions from the great state of Texas. TNT’ s Charles Barkley was talking up Dallas all year, […]

America’s sports pages and sports radio are still virtually all-White, according to the third biannual Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) Racial and Gender Report Card. The APSE is the largest group representing the sports sections of newspapers and online media sources in the United States and Canada.  The April report, which encompassed nearly 3,000 people, […]

St. Paul Humboldt senior CALVIN CLARK won the 100 (11.19), 200 (22.28) and 400 meters (49.66) last weekend, repeating the dominance he displayed a year earlier at the Class A Boys’ and Girls’ Track and Field Championships at Hamline University. Clark’s performance had such an impact that his 36 points were good enough for a […]

DALLAS — My knuckles have turned white after the last two games of the 2011 NBA Finals. Thank goodness it’s not a permanent condition — talk about drama? The pattern of the first three games: Miami gets a big lead, and Dallas rallies because the Heat keep hoisting up jump shots. Game three, Miami leads […]

It’s been over a decade or so, since the WNBA came to town in 1999, that former collegiate women hoopsters could be seen competing against each other in the summertime around these parts. The Minnesota Jaguars or “The Jags” is the newest entry in the Women’s Blue Chip Basketball League (WBCBL), a semi-pro women’s league […]

WILLIE ROLLER III (Cretin-Derham Hall) and MAI RICHARDS (Highland Park) were selected as the 2011 winners at the 35th annual Winfield Student-Athlete Awards Banquet held at the Crown Plaza St. Paul-Riverfront Hotel last Sunday evening. Roller, who will attend Alabama State University in the fall, was an all-state football player for the Raiders, while Richards […]