WNBA | Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Former Lynx discovers natural ability to coach

After 12 WNBA seasons, Noelle Quinn is in her first season as an assistant coach with Seattle, the last of ...

The WNBA and social media: blessing or curse?

Perhaps more than any other pro league, the WNBA has fully embraced social media.

New Lynx shooter grateful for green light

Lexie Brown recently became the 13th player in Minnesota Lynx history to make five three-pointers in a game and the ...

Things are looking up for Lynx guard Odyssey Sims

Odyssey Sims, one of nine new faces on the 2019 Lynx, is hopeful about her future success.

WNBA’s first commissioner could’ve been Black — but she isn’t

Former WNBA President Lisa Borders resigned last fall, and the announcement of her successor caught most of us by surprise ...

Lynx player hopes new WNBA, CBS TV deal leads to bigger checks

The WNBA and CBS recently announced it would broadcast 40 WNBA games in prime-time and on weekends as part of ...

Reflections on Lynx greatness

For the most part, there was some consensus between the selections of Lynx-Timberwolves Broadcaster Lea B. Olsen (LBO) and original ...

Shifting the WNBA season to fall/winter a bad idea

WNBA president prevaricates on league issues

In her September 7 press conference transcripts, Borders seemed to dance around nearly every topic asked by reporters in Seattle, ...

Lynx made WNBA comeback history in their first successful season’s playoffs

An actual change of the guard took place in the months leading up to the 2003 season. Some at the ...

W players fire back at salary critics

“I think that perception based on misinformation,” Kayla McBride said. “I think a lot of people who have this perception ...

White and Black athletes should stand together against injustice

Lindsay Whalen, about this time two years ago, stood alongside her Black teammates wearing black T-shirts to protest the Philando ...

Pro hoopsters go to Harvard

Harvard Business Administration Professor Anita Elberse, who first started and teaches the semester-long course with NBA players, pairing them with ...

Lennox, a stand-out Lynx rookie in 2001, calls the team ‘my first home’

“It was my first team,” Betty Lennox recalled in a recent MSR phone interview. Just the season before, she and ...

Former local prep stars who’ve reached the WNBA

Lindsay Whalen (Hutchinson, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Lynx), Tayler Hill (Minneapolis South, Ohio State University, Washington Mystics), Nia Coffey (Hopkins, ...