MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
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March 22, 1997 - More than fifteen thousand Gophers Basketball fans jammed Williams Arena last night... for a welcome-home rally... when the team returned to Minneapolis from San Antonio.
March 22, 1997 - The Minnesota Gophers men's basketball team has earned a berth in the NCAA Final Four. The number-one seeded Gophers won the Midwest region final yesterday with an 80-to-72 come-from-behind victory over UCLA. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Wareham was in San Antonio for the game and has this report.
March 22, 1997 - It's nail-biting time once agin for Gopher fans as the Men's Basketball team faces UCLA at 2:40 this afternoon in the Midwest Regional final. Fans have barely had time to recover from the double overtime victory against Clemson Thursday night.
March 22, 1997 - Monday night more than a billion pairs of eyes will be glued to the small screen to celebrate the best of the big screen. The 69th annual Academy Awards are billed as Hollywood's biggest night of the year. Weekend Edition Film Critic Rob Nelson says he's generally pleased with this year's crop of nominations.
March 22, 1997 - Welfare reform, the stadium deal and snowmobile rules are some of the issues dominating this years legislative session. The State Legislature is half way through it's long budget session.
March 24, 1997 - MPR’s Karen Louise Boothe reports that hundreds of people rallied at the State Capitol on behalf of a bill that would restore the cuts in benefits to legal immigrants in the new federal welfare reform law.
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