Sports

New Minnesota Stadium Authority continues "sour taste" in public's mouth with non-transparent pick of Ted Mondale

By Rich Neumeister , Open Secrets Minnesota

When the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority picked Ted Mondale for the top job of the group many people were surprised.  The public thought would there would be a process similar when the executive director was selected for the Baseball Authorit

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Women's Professional Basketball League trailblazer Tonyus Chavers an early beneficiary of Title IX

By Charles Hallman, Another View

The Minnesota Lynx and the Chicago Sky on Saturday will wear uniforms with “IX” on the front of the jerseys to mark the actual day, June 23, when Title IX of the Education Amendments became law. Pioneer athlete Tonyus Chavers proudly calls herself a “Title IX baby.”

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Gophers runner Harun Abda pins family's American dream on Olympic trials

By Megan Ryan, The Minnesota Daily
Harun Abda watches a movie with his family Monday afternoon at their home in St. Paul. Abda will be competing at the U.S. trials over the next week to qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games. (Photos by Blake Leigh)

Harun Abda traveled more than 7,000 miles when his family escaped from Ethiopia almost a decade ago.

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Do appointees of Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority represent the public?

By Rich Neumeister, Open Secrets Minnesota

From the beginning of the introduction of the stadium bill to the upcoming 1st meeting of the new Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (Authority) a lot of the major decisions about it have been under the cloak of secrecy.

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Dayton, Rybak appoint stadium authority to oversee financing and construction of new Vikings stadium

By Katherine Lymn, The Minnesota Daily

Gov. Mark Dayton and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak on Thursday announced their appointments to the five-member board that will work with the Vikings to develop the new football stadium downtown.

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Minnesota African American Cultural Center and Museum ready to spread its wings

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Daniel Patrick Murphy

The Minnesota African American Museum and Cultural Center (MAAM) opened its doors on Saturday June 2, for tours of their first exhibition—Bringing it Home, a “retrospective of Black N’ Brown baseball in Minnesota”—and a day of activities and performances by storytellers, dance and step troupes, and a visit by past Minnesota Twins Players. While the museum won’t open until fall, it was a chance for the community to get a sneak peek at what MAAM has to offer.

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Get in the fold with your British bike at the Twin Cities' first-ever Brompton Championship Race

By Nicky Stein-Grohs, #MSP

The second ever Open Streets Minneapolis event will take place this Sunday on Lyndale Avenue South between 22nd Street and 42nd Street. The street will be car-free from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday so that visitors can take over the street by bike or by foot (or whatever other non-car transportation you can come up with) and check out local businesses and the like. Last year there were plenty of food trucks, tiny dogs, and special events, and this year’s event should top last year’s! You won’t want to miss it.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Can the Vikings Stadium be stopped?

By Ed Felien, Free Speech Zone

Council Member Gary Schiff addressed a rally of anti-stadium activists before the vote on Friday.

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St. Paul fencer heads to Summer Games

By Roger Bergerson, Park Bugle

Murray Junior High School alum Susie Scanlan is crossing the pond in July to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics. (Photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Fencing has provided Susie Scanlan with a lot of opportunities, among them an Ivy League education and world travel. But the biggest one of all lies just ahead.

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Stadium postmortem: How a wealthy NFL owner got millions from taxpayers

By John Marty, Public Policy Forum

The Vikings stadium fight is over; team owner Zygi Wilf won.

Mr. Wilf got an astounding amount of money from taxpayers, while convincing politicians and some fans that he is doing them a favor.

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