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Once the Final Four is over, the focus will turn to the WNBA draft on Thursday.Three players in the national semifinals are generally regarded as top-five picks — Louisville's Angel McCoughtry, Oklahoma's Courtney Paris and UConn's Renee Montgomery.The Atlanta Dream has the first selection, followed by Washington, Chicago, Minnesota and Phoenix."My head is spinning with this one, but I would take Renee Montgomery [with the first pick]," Rebecca Lobo said. "But Atlanta [with Ivory Latta and Kristin Haynie] doesn't really need another guard.

The unemployment rate is rising at an alarming rate in Minnesota.The situation is becoming worse day by day. Since January 20,700 jobs have been lost in Minnesota as indicated by The Department of Employment...

The latest Minnesota state fair employment report is starting to look pretty bleak as the MN unemployment reaches the highest point since 1983.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting that unemployment increased by 16,800 in July to a total of 171,500 jobless, a 40,000 increase from a year ago.

Twenty-two Minnesota projects will receive nearly $30 million in funding from an appropriations bill that won final approval from the U.S House of Representatives today.

On an opening day of NCAA Division I tournament play, only the underdogs survived—except for one. No. 7-ranked Minnesota Duluth pulled off one of the most improbable victories in school history with a 5-4 overtime win against No. 12 Princeton in the West Regional semifinals before 7,197 wildly loud fans at Mariucci Arena.All UMD did was score twice in the final 40 seconds of regulation play, against one of the top goalies in Division I, with scores from Jack Connolly with 39.4 seconds to go and defenseman Evan Oberg with less than a second to go.

The three judge panel presiding over the Minnesota Senate race hearing tonight declared Al Franken the winner of the race. Over five months after the election, a three-judge panel has declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of the Minnesota U.S. Senate race.

“With the first pick in the 2009 W.N.B.A. draft, the Atlanta Dream select Angel McCoughtry,” Orender said.The 6-foot-1 McCoughtry, a three-time all-American forward from Baltimore, finished second best to Connecticut in Tuesday’s championship round. But two days later, she was reveling in first prize. She will head to a second-year team that has been reloading after a 4-30 season.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/sports/ncaabasketball/10wnba.html?ref=...

The Washington Capitals have acquired right wing Scott Walker from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for a seventh-round pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, vice president and general manager George McPhee announced today.

Not to dismiss Robert Morris University in any way, or to insult its fine basketball team -- making the NCAA tournament is a terrific achievement no matter what conference you come from -- but as Michigan State gets set to begin its tournament run its most formidable opponent is ... itself.AdvertisementA week ago the Spartans got by Minnesota in the first round of the Big Ten tournament despite not playing well. The poor play continued the next day against Ohio State and that didn't work out so well. Yes, MSU didn't make shots. Yes Ohio State did.