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Now we’ll never know
Jan. 9 | GREEN BAY — The NFL’s most successful franchise, the 13-time World Champion Green Bay Packers, eliminated the Minnesota Vikings 24-10 Saturday before 71,548 fans and a national television audience on NBC at historic Lambeau Field....
Sports highlights, plus banished words of 2012
Dec. 26 | WNBA Finals MVP Tamika CatchingsPhoto by Charles Hallman Two members of our MSR sports experts’ panel recently released their 2012 best sports stories. Nate Parham of Swish Appeal places at the top of his list the Indiana Fever winning the 2012...
Minnesota Timberwolves: The ‘Whitest team in the NBA’ has an even Whiter front office
Dec. 5 | Director of basketball operations counts coaching staff as front-office staff to claim diversity By Charles Hallman Staff Writer The National Basketball Association for years has been graded as “the most racially diverse group...
In college sport, it’s still a White man’s world
Dec. 5 | An unfortunate imbalance continues in college sport according to the latest report by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES): White men run the show, and women in particular, in spite of Title IX, are losing ground rather than...
NFL cream begins to rise
Oct. 31 | GLENDALE, AZ — Here we go! Baseball is done, thankfully, before November with San Francisco sweeping Detroit to capture their second World Series in three years. The NBA starts this week, and the National Hockey League can’t figure out...
NFL continues to score high in hiring diversity
Oct. 31 | Third in an occasional series Vikings President Rick SpielmanPhoto by Charles Hallman Historically, pro football has been slow to embrace racial diversity, especially at high-profile positions such as quarterback and coach. There was a nearly seven-decade...
Fitzgerald second-fastest ever to 10,000 yards
Oct. 17 | PHOENIX — Two teams off to good solid starts and looking to bounce back after tough losses, the 4-2 Vikings and the 4-2 Cardinals, meet Sunday at Mall of America Field. The losses: Washington 38-Vikings 26 and Buffalo 19-Arizona 16...
At 4-1, Vikings among NFL’s best
Oct. 10 | Percy Harvin scored two touchdowns against the Titans.Photo by Travis Lee Five weeks into the season, the 2012 Vikings remain one of the surprise stories in the NFL. Last year the Vikings, 3-13, lost several games in which they blew early leads...
Pay-for-pain scandal: Black athletes, journalists on NFL bounty-hunt allegations
Mar. 7 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams has allegedly concocted a “headhunting” system for his defensive players: $1,000 if a player was carried off the field on a stretcher...
