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Give the Vikings ownership credit: They are doing everything it seems possible to win. They have a deal with Arden Hills on a proposed new Vikings stadium site that awaits state approval. In fact, the historic State government shutdown has hurt their cause. Governor Mark Dayton called their stadium proposal “sloppy.” They are two years […]

Teresa Edwards will be inducted August 12 as the only female player in the 10-person Class of 2011 in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. She is the first U.S. player to win four gold medals in Olympic basketball. While sitting and talking about being a Hall of Famer when she was in town […]

By Charles Hallman Staff Writer For the record, the best rebounder at the downtown Minneapolis pro basketball arena is not a Minnesota Timberwolves player but instead Minnesota Lynx forward Rebekkah Brunson. Statistically speaking, she was the league’s second-best rebounder last summer, and Brunson currently leads the W in caroms this year. But in all actuality, […]

It’s finally over after more than four months of tough negotiations between the NFL owners and the Players Association (NFLPA). The agreement is 10 years and $150 billion with a salary cap set at $120 million per 32 teams. All the terms of the deal have not yet been released, but that is its foundation. […]

SAN ANTONIO — Minnesota’s mainstream media didn’t send a single representative to this year’s WNBA All-Star Game, which was played here last Saturday and featured four Lynx players — Seimone Augustus, Rebekkah Brunson, Lindsay Whalen and Maya Moore — the most players selected from one team for an All-Star Game since 2006. The MSR was […]

By Charles Hallman Staff Writer WNBA President Laurie Richie said it finally hit her that she is the first Black woman to lead a major league sport. “I don’t think you ever get over the significance of something like that,” admitted the league’s third president and first woman of color to lead a pro basketball […]

As a sprinter for St. Paul Central’s track and field team during the early 1980s, ROSALYN SMALLER made a difference. The St. Paul native, who still holds the City Conference record in the 100 meters (12.14), is trying to make a difference by spreading awareness about breast cancer. Smaller, who is herself a breast cancer […]

The WNBA’s Top 15 Players will be announced Saturday at the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game in San Antonio. “Each has made a unique contribution to the game,” League President Laurel Richie said of the 30 nominees. Current Minnesota Lynx players Seimone Augustus and Taj McWilliams-Franklin are among 22 Blacks on the list. “It’s a good […]

As determined as the 2011 U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s bid was to end the long drought, having not won the World Cup since 1999, it appeared to be a formality. After all, they never lose to Japan. That’s why it hurts double today, because they were in position and had so many opportunities, including the […]

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 […]