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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.
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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...
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.
The Feb. 1 front page of the Star Tribune
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."
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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
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
The full report from last night's game:
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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.
More photos from last night’s game:
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
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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
Artist Noval Noir is painting a life-size portrait of Renee Good at the memorial site in Minneapolis.
📸: Elizabeth Flores
Minnesota Top 25: The Star Tribune’s statewide girls hockey ranking | Strib Varsity
USA Hockey shared some pre-camp photos on their Instagram and X, which includes Holy Family senior Maddy Kimbrel (No. 18), Northfield senior defender Mia Miller (No. 3) and Bemidji junior forward Bailey Rupp (No. 38).
