The Twins are in post season hunt, but there aren’t that many fans in the stands to see them. Why?
Through 63 dates the Twins have drawn 1,400,625 spectators. That’s down almost 370,000, or 20.9%, from the same point in 2019 (1,770,455).
Pat Borzi
Pat Borzi is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to the New York Times.
One last hug for Sweet Syl
It’s all winding down this weekend as the Lynx, struggling through their worst season since 2010, try to squeeze out a 12th consecutive playoff berth to extend their league record and to send Sylvia Fowles back to the post season for a final time.
Wildly successful inaugural season for Minnesota Aurora has people asking, ‘When will the team make the jump to the pros?’
Aurora topped the USL W League in attendance at 5,626 per game; better than seven of the 12 NWSL clubs.
All-Star Game could be the stage that makes Twins rising star Luis Arraez a national sensation
In a homer-happy era where strikeouts are accepted as part of the deal, Arraez is a throwback; a contact hitter to all fields who rarely swings and misses.
In a league of her own, former Lynx star Rebekkah Brunson’s number 32 retired
The only WNBA player to win five championships – one in Sacramento before that club disbanded, then four with the Lynx – Brunson succeeded because of her willingness to do the gritty, non-glamorous stuff that doesn’t make ESPN highlights but wins games.
Charles Hallman might be one of the most fascinating people in Twin Cities media. And he’s finally gotten his due.
This year, the longtime Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder writer was inducted into the United States Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame for his coverage of women’s college basketball.
Almost perfect: Minnesota Aurora debuts with 1-1 draw against Green Bay
The Aurora play in the fledgling USL W League, a 44-club amateur circuit that hopes to feed players to the professional National Women’s Soccer League. It’s like baseball’s Northwoods League for collegians, only with some high school players and post-graduates mixed in.
How good are the Lynx this year? We should know a lot more after the WNBA’s opening weekend
Never in their history had the Lynx put as many talented players in the street as they did this past week.
Why Strib editorial cartoonist Steve Sack decided it was time to sign off
About eight months ago, Sack said, he began to feel numbness in the fingers of his drawing hand. Numbness and tingling soon spread up his arm, all the way up to the shoulder. A neurologist diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome and nerve issues.
Are the Twins, and Twins fans, ready for Carlos Correa’s relentless positivity?
As long as he’s here, it’s clear Correa wants to make an impact, and not just with his bat and glove.
How the Final Four in Minneapolis is a sign of what’s to come in women’s college basketball
This weekend’s NCAA Women’s Final Four at the Target Center will be the first since the Kaplan Report came out, and we’re already seeing some of the report’s suggestions implemented.
March Madness will feature plenty of Minnesotans. Does that make the state a basketball hotbed?
What is beyond debate, according coaches with decades on the Minnesota basketball scene, is that state-produced talent is better and deeper than ever.
‘We need to listen more to the community’: A Q&A with new Star Tribune Editor Suki Dardarian
In February, the Star Tribune announced that Dardarian, currently the No. 2 leader in the newsroom, will succeed outgoing Editor Rene Sanchez.
The Beijing Winter Olympics: Live from … Stamford, Connecticut
Chad Salmela, a former U.S. national team biathlete who coaches cross country and track at the College of St. Scholastica, is one of many NBC Olympics analysts calling events off a TV monitor half a world away from China.
Advocates for sports dropped by U get chance to ‘tell their story’ at Minnesota Legislature
Committee Vice Chair Jason Rarick (R-Pine City) says he’ll ask the University of Minnesota Regents to appoint a commission to review the U’s rationale, restore the programs and make them viable. But legislators can only ask: the Regents are under no obligation to comply.
Why a New Jersey technology firm bought a bunch of newspapers in Greater Minnesota. And what it wants to do with them.
CherryRoad Media CEO Jeremy Gulban says the company plans to invest in the newspapers, not mine them for assets.
What Twin Cities journalism, and the Twin Cities, lost with the death of Mel Reeves
Reeves’ death on Jan. 6, of complications from COVID-19, silenced one of the area’s most influential voices.
How Blaine became home base, once again, for the U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team
The renovated facilities at the National Sports Center bring the women’s program more in line with what USA Hockey provides its men’s National Team Development Program for high school aged up-and-comers in Plymouth, Mich.
Year in review: Minnesota’s seven biggest media stories of 2021
For journalism in Minnesota, 2021 turned out to be a much better year than 2020.
What to know about the Major League Baseball lockout
Baseball’s popularity has never been more precarious, and labor strife only adds to the sport’s mounting problems.
