On Sunday night, bars and breweries across the Twin Cities will host watch parties for the Lynx-Liberty championship game, the last in a nail-biting, competitive series.
Neighbors will gather. Long-distance friends will text updates throughout the game. At Riverview Theater in south Minneapolis, families will watch the matchup on the big screen with buckets of popcorn.
“It’s just a great pleasure to be able to watch any of our Minnesota teams, but especially the Lynx, who I have a special soft place in my heart for because of watching college and originally high school women’s basketball expand and get better and better and better” she said.
She said while all the other teams were “flaming out” over the years, not so the Lynx.
“My goodness, it’s just been a splendid, consistently watchable team over the years,” she said. “It’s been astounding.”
But it wasn’t until the Lynx made it to the playoffs this year that Rylander could watch them. She is out of market. The poet and author recently moved from Grey Eagle, Minn., with her husband to a senior living community in Davidson, N.C., to be near her daughter.
