To note: Lynx open their season hosting the Dream on May 10. Will be the first time Reese gets to suit up for her new team in the regular season.

Ticket, punched! 🎟️ Gophers gymnastics is headed to Nationals for the first time since 2022, finishing second at its Regional Final, snapping Utah's 49-year streak of reaching nationals. www.startribune.com/gophers-gymn...

No Anthony Edwards tonight, the Wolves say. Not listed with the illness, only the knee.

The PWHL takes the World's Most Famous Arena.

The Minnesota Frost clinch a #PWHL playoff spot with a 6-5 come-from-behind win over Vancouver. Kelly Pannek, the league's leading goalscorer, gets two third-period goals to help snap the Frost's three-game losing streak in front of 8,300+ at Grand Casino Arena. SOG: 35-25, Frost

Vancouver (Gardner) scores early in the second period to put the Goldeneyes up 4-2 over the Frost. That's now three consecutive games that Minnesota has conceded four goals (4-2 to Boston, 4-3 to New York — plus, 3-0 loss to Montréal before that.)

As the new WNBA labor deal kicks in, players’ salaries are being updated on @herhoopstats.com. Example: Caitlin Clark made $76,565 as a rookie two years ago. This season she’ll make $528,846.

Vancouver leads the Frost 3-2 at the end of the 1st period. After Katy Knoll put the Frost ahead 2-1, a pair of Goldeneyes goals in the next 40 seconds (!), including Jaques on the power play, put Vancouver up again late in the period. SOG 14-12, Goldeneyes.

Sarah Nurse strikes early for the Goldeneyes with a net-front tip-in just over a minute into the Frost's game against Vancouver today. An assist for former Frost Sophie Jaques on that early goal.

The Frost are currently third in the PWHL standings. Montréal and Boston, ahead of 'em, have both clinched spots in the playoffs. Minnesota could be the third to do so today with a regulation win. Tougher to make the playoffs this year (4/6 teams in the league last season, 4/8 this season.)

The Minnesota Frost's game today against Vancouver is the team's Mental Health Awareness Game, in partnership with Sophie's Squad — had the chance to write about the Minnesota origins of the important organization last season: @stribsports.startribune.com www.startribune.com/minnesota-fr...

Says a lot about last season's Lynx roster that Minnesota players went first in BOTH rounds of the expansion draft: Carleton at No. 1 overall, and then Masha with the No. 1 pick in the second round, once Lynx players could be selected again.

Cyclone Legend Bridget Carleton 🫡

Bridget Carleton heads to Portland with the No. 1 overall pick in the expansion draft — high regards from the Fire for the Lynx starter. Maria Kliundikova heads to Toronto in the 2nd round — some bench depth and big front court minutes, especially in last year's playoff, headed to the Tempo.

Now three former Lynx players are on the MN bench as assistant coaches, with today’s announcement: www.startribune.com/janel-mccarv...

Meet 15 athletes to know this track and field season

NEWS: Iowa State star Audi Crooks announced she is entering the transfer portal. Crooks averaged 25.8 points per game this season.

Need a refresher on how tomorrow’s WNBA expansion draft will play out, and what might factor into who the Lynx decide to protect? Check it out here, for @stribsports.startribune.com www.startribune.com/wnba-expansi...

I can’t wait to get started covering Minnesota women’s sports for @stribsports.startribune.com I’m really lucky to follow in the footsteps of talented reporters who have done the same. Truly a pinch-me moment for me.

The past two days, Minnesota men's basketball has announced returners via the Gophers' NIL collective. Seems like it's the women's team's turn now. Redshirt JR guard Mara Braun is the first to make her return official @stribsports.startribune.com www.startribune.com/minnesota-go...

Soft launching my new role w/ @stribsports.startribune.com ... more to come :) but in the meantime, catch up on what boxes the Lynx have to check off in a busy April: www.startribune.com/minnesota-ly...

Some sick graphics by designer Ellie Lin breaking down how CBA details could impact WNBA teams like the Lynx, by the numbers, for @stribsports.startribune.com www.startribune.com/minnesota-ly...

Legendary shot for Amaya Battle. Gophers to the Sweet 16 for the first time in two decades. www.startribune.com/gophers-wome...

A beaten-up lunch pail. A bubble wrapped family football game. So many great details in Mark Craig’s story on Gophers basketball leader Tori McKinney ahead of the NCAA Tournament. www.startribune.com/gophers-wome...

Minnesota’s two highest-ranked national girls basketball recruits (per ESPN) will face off in today’s 2A championship game — one writing the last chapter of her state tournament career, the other writing her first. For @stribsports.startribune.com varsity.startribune.com/providence-a...

Even those outside Minnesota should already know about Maddyn Greenway, the daughter of former Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway, and how she's carved her name into state's record books. If you don't, get acquainted:

Call her "McMaddyn" or "All-Minnesota Player of the Year" — but Providence Academy senior Maddyn Greenway's hope is that, at the end of the week, you can call her and the Lions "five-time basketball state champs" before she heads to Kentucky. @stribsports.startribune.com shorturl.at/0NzpY

From Minnesota’s biggest school to Mountain-Iron Buhl, everybody wants in. Here’s how the Vikings-sponsored girls flag football league will look this spring as it more than doubles in size. For @stribsports.startribune.com varsity.startribune.com/minnesota-vi...

It's been such a joy to watch this story come together from the sidelines. Shoutout to Lindsey Vonn for skiing through the whole ACL thing so that we could still publish it. www.startribune.com/five-mountai...

PWHL should help women's hockey shine at 2026 Olympics

Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day. It's a melancholy one, for me, watching layoffs hit both my hometown paper in Atlanta and a WaPo sports section with writers who I admire greatly. Telling the stories of girls and women in sports, at any level, is so, so important.

Today is a great day to pay for sports journalism that you value.

Souhan: Jordan Thompson uses platform to speak out on ICE

The front page of tomorrow's Minnesota Star Tribune: Feb. 1, 2026

Must read: "Holding facilities were so crowded that immigrants in one cell had to take turns lying down because there was no space, according to a refugee detained there for one night in January. Basic human needs like food and medical care were sometimes denied." www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

Kelsey Plum said she and Napheesa Collier will be among the players who will attend a CBA meeting in NYC. She said this is her first meeting she's been able to attend in person since the playoffs.

Wolves show they ‘Stand with Minnesota’ in call for unity across the state

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

Vigils were held around Minneapolis and beyond Saturday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents. Photo and video: Jeff Wheeler, Anthony Souffle, Simon Peter Groebner/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

Sharing for the Lynx fans here, from @startribune.com coverage of today’s protests by Kyeland Jackson and Alex Kormann

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Almost every day for the last couple weeks, a big stack of pizzas or boxes of bagels or other goodies show up in the @startribune.com newsroom, paid for by journalists at other news orgs around the country.

Gophers WBB commit, Crosby-Ironton senior PG Tori Oehrlein scored a career-high 57 points last night to pass Rebekah Dahlman's GBB career scoring record of 5,060 points. Dahlman passed the torch to Oehrlein in Crosby. Oehrlein holds the state rebounding record, too. @stribsports.startribune.com

President Donald Trump this morning threatened to use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota, following protests after a federal agent shot a man in the leg after an alleged assault on the officer.

Minneapolis rising Thursday morning.

Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten: There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined. 9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.

Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul sue Department of Homeland Security over ICE surge www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Still no CBA deal, but the players union and the WNBA have agreed to a moratorium that will suspend free agency until a new agreement is signed.

Thousands are at Powderhorn Park in south Minneapolis rallying against ICE. Video by Alex Kormann