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Posts tagged with "Trevor Mbakwe"
U of M honors late MSR senior sportswriter
Feb. 14 | Kwame McDonald was highly regarded as educator, activist and friend to many By Charles Hallman Staff Writer The University of Minnesota men’s basketball team honored the late Kwame McDonald during halftime of Sunday’s Gophers-Illinois...
More should be done to honor Kwame McDonald
Feb. 13 | Why is it that we Blacks must often wait for the shortest month each year to be honored, to get our accomplishments recognized, to get our heritage respected? Why do we often have to be half-past dead to finally get our bouquets? It took one...
Stereotypes at play in neglect of girls’ coaching achievements
Feb. 6 | DeLaSalle Girls’ Basketball Coach Faith Johnson-Patterson will receive the Special Merit Award at the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda in St. Paul on Feb. 6 at the 2013 Minnesota National Girls and Women in Sports Day ceremony. The...
Recovery from an ACL injury is quicker now, but still challenging
Jan. 30 | Modern medicine has improved so much in recent years that an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury these days isn’t career-ending for an athlete, but rather a temporary setback. Historically, “People were really stiff coming out of surgery,”...
HBCU coaches tend to see athletes as students first
Nov. 21 | The latest NCAA graduation rates report shows that overall Division I student-athletes graduate at 80 percent, but the oft-overlooked fact is that Black student-athletes graduate at least 20 percent lower than their White counterparts. Even...
Three-point review of Gophers men’s and women’s basketball
Nov. 30 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer A seven-game review of Minnesota women’s basketball at this point of the season yields the following three points: First point: Billed before the season as the missing piece, Rachel Banham...
