Stiffened penalties on hold | Minnesota Hockey Hub | MN Boys High School Hockey

 By David La Vaque, Star Tribune



The Minnesota State High School League, armed with new evidence that referees called checking from behind significantly more often after Jack Jablonski suffered a paralyzing injury, is finding it slow going to change the culture of hockey.



The league presented data to the National Federation of State High School Associations in April showing a big jump

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Gary Tinsley awarded degree posthumously - Minneapolis News and Weather KMSP FOX 9

 MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) -



Gary Tinsley was awarded a degree posthumously by the University of Minnesota on Thursday.



It's been exactly 34 days since Tinsley, 22, died of an enlarged heart on April 6 in his dorm room at Roy Wilkins Hall.



Tinsley was a starting linebacker for the Gophers football team and had been training for the NFL in the days leading up to his death. 



Gary Tinsley

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'U' approves agreement with Vikings to use TCF | kare11.com

 FROM KARE11.COM 

 MINNEAPOLIS - The University of Minnesota's Board of Regents has approved an agreement with the Minnesota Vikings that allows the use of TCF Bank Stadium during the NFL team's construction of its new stadium.



The board unanimously approved the letter of intent on Friday. It is non-binding, but sets the parameters that university President Eric Kaler and the Vikings can

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DeLaSalle pitcher won't let birth defect slow him down | StarTribune.com

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune



Standing in the middle of the diamond with a baseball in hand, Ben Albert is complete. It's here, propped on a 10-inch pile of dirt, where the DeLaSalle High School pitcher has found a place of fulfillment.



In a routine that has become as normal as adjusting his cap, Albert waits for a return throw from his catcher at the bottom of the hill, right arm

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GET TO KNOW LEE DEKOVEN EDWARDS

Lee Dekoven Edwards Jr. was born in
Edina, Minnesota on May 13, 1996. He has two sisters and two
brothers. One of his brothers passed away at childbirth.





Edwards will graduate from Lakeville
North in 2014. He is on the football and track team. He said that,
“Football to me is not a sport, it’s my life! I live and breathe
football. It’s all I think about and I am always looking for ways
to

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KEVIN LAMONT THOMPSON MAKES ALL STAR TEAM AND ALL AMERICAN THIRD TEAM

6'1” guard
Kevin Lamont Thompson from Dakota
County Technical College
has earned the post season honers of making the NJCAA All American
third team as announced by the NJCAA.






Thompson will be making an appearance in the
2012 NJCAA All Star game in Las Vegas, NV.




Thompson and DCTC
teammate Clinton Parker made the All Region 13 team. 

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DAN RUBISCHKO IS NAMED HEAD BOYS' BASKETBALL COACH AT ST. THOMAS ACADEMY

Dan Rubischko has been named the head boys' varsity basketball coach
at St. Thomas High School. He replaces Mike Sjoberg who had to step
down because Sjoberg took a promotion at the school as he was
promoted to assistant headmaster. He couldn't do both jobs.




In 16 seasons,
Sjoberg compiled a 355-139 record with six trips to the state
tournament in 16 seasons as the head coach at St.

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THE TOP 17U HOWARD PULLEY PANTHERS DAY TWO RECAPS

On the second day of the Howard Pulley
Sables Invitational tournament in the first game of the day the top
Howard Pulley Panthers 17U team played against Kingdom Hoops out of
Iowa.





The game got off to a quick start as
each team forced shots and looked to get into there offense early.
Kingdom Hoops played mostly man-to-man defense in the first half.
Pulley switched between man-to-man

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TRENT LOCKETT TO TRANSFER FROM ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY TO MARQUETTE

Former Hopkins High School boys'
basketball player 6 foot 5 inch guard Trent Lockett has decided to
transfer from Arizona State to Marquette University for his senior
season.





According to the Minnesota Daily
Dispatch the reason Lockett said about transferring was, “The
reason I am transferring is to be closer to my mom, but at the same
time I needed to make a good basketball decision,

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H.S. Student Collapses Playing Basketball, Dies « CBS Minnesota

 From WCCO.com



NEW HOPE, Minn. (WCCO) — A Robbinsdale Cooper High School student died while playing basketball at a Twin Cities YMCA. 



Seventeen-year-old Kalonyea Wopea was playing basketball Thursday with some friends in New Hope.

Witnesses say he collapsed during a game. He was rushed to North Memorial Hospital where he died.

“I love him and he loved me. He’s just an outgoing person.

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TYUS ROBERT JONES AND AKOLDA DEAR MAYANG OUT FOR THE SABLES INVITATIONAL

Apple Valley and Howard Pulley 17U
guard Tyus Robert Jones and Duluth East Akolda Dear Mayang are not
participating in this year’s Sables Invitational Tournament which
is taking place the weekend of May 4-6, 2012 at the High Performance
Center in Eagan.




Tyus Robert Jones is home sick and
Akolda Dear Mayang has a sprained ankle. 

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