Category Archives: Star Tribune-State Sports
Baseball: Picking the final four and champion for each class
Staff writer Jim Paulsen picks the baseball state tournament results
Startribune News Jun 09, 2026
RandBall: The Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals are truly unpredictable, a modern sports rarity
Whatever you think you might know about the series is subject to change, as Game 3 at Madison Square Garden showed.
Startribune News Jun 09, 2026
Neal: Flag football championship makes case for receiving emerging sport status from MSHSL
On Monday, 13 Minnesota high school teams met at TCO Stadium to compete in a season-ending tournament for the second consecutive year.
Startribune News Jun 09, 2026
Analysis: Were the Timberwolves right to trade Karl-Anthony Towns?
Plenty of Wolves fans are now questioning the deal since Towns and the New York Knicks have the upper hand on the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals.
Startribune News Jun 09, 2026
Gophers send 19 athletes to NCAA outdoor track and field championships
Thirteen athletes from the men's team and six from the women's side will compete for national titles this week in Eugene, Ore.
Startribune News Jun 09, 2026
Victor Wembanyama carries Spurs to 115-111 win that cuts Knicks' NBA Finals lead to 2-1
Victor Wembanyama has his first NBA Finals win - and the New York Knicks suddenly have a lot of work left to end their 53-year championship drought.
Startribune News Jun 09, 2026
Video: Rosemount wins Minnesota Vikings’ girls flag football league championship
The Irish completed their season with a perfect 14-0 record.
Startribune News Jun 08, 2026
Brainerd dance, Stillwater synchronized swimming and Dakota United Hawks named All-Minnesota
Three high school programs that excelled during the recently completed school year earned distinctions as Strib Varsity All-Minnesota Champion Teams and Program of the Year.
Startribune News Jun 08, 2026
RandBall: Royce Lewis is back with the Twins, but when will other Saints be called up?
Kaelen Culpepper, Matt Wallner, Kyler Fedko and Aaron Sabato are also trying to hit their way from St. Paul to Minneapolis.
Startribune News Jun 08, 2026
A rivalry begins: Gophers, St. Thomas to meet in men’s, women’s hoops next season
The men will play Nov. 6 and the women will play Dec. 1, both at Williams Arena, in the first meetings between the two sides since the Tommies moved to Division I.
Startribune News Jun 08, 2026