The following numbers aren’t winning lottery numbers: 14, 2, 7, 1. They represent, in order, the college football head coaching...
Read moreSenior guard Khari Dennis pressed a balanced attack with 21 points to lead St. Paul Highland Park to a 78-77...
Read moreIt’s awfully hard these days to get a decent one-on-one player or coach interview without either “a scrum of 40...
Read moreMost college and high school reunions involve a lot of swapping tall tales. One would love to be in the...
Read moreTom Izzo truly appreciates his players, present and former. And vice versa. While in town on this year’s first weekend,...
Read moreThere are countless, faceless people who work athletic contests: ticket takers, concessions sellers, restroom attendants and post-game arena clean-up crews....
Read moreIs the real concern of local White reporters like Robson that they can’t get Mitchell to meet their unrealistic expectations?
Read moreMinnesota (5-7) is among the 80 football teams picked to play in a bowl game this year. The Gophers will...
Read moreDid former Minnesota athletic director Norwood Teague run amok financially during his three-year tenure at the school? Who is on...
Read moreThe four-team NCAA volleyball first-round bracket last weekend in Minneapolis featured a nearly all-Black but all-females-of-color team (Jackson State), and...
Read moreFacing your first round NCAA opponent — let alone the second overall seed on their home court — can be...
Read moreThe third goalie in hockey sometimes looks like a third wheel. It’s mostly watching from the bench, the only action...
Read moreLast week Freshman guard JT Gibson helped his University of Nebraska Omaha Mavericks almost knock off the host Gophers in...
Read more“Senior Night” — it’s typically scheduled on the team’s final home game of the regular season. Such an occasion took...
Read moreThe Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) Director Richard Lapchick once again notes in his latest study that...
Read moreBoth Minnesota squads opened their respective 2015-16 season Friday in a rare home doubleheader and both teams came away with...
Read moreMike Sherels played for the Gophers from 2003-07 and was a two-year captain, the only Minnesota walk-on ever so named....
Read moreTeam chemistry is not an exact science. It can’t be recruited or acquired, and it certainly isn’t a guarantee of...
Read moreGopher Linebackers Coach Mike Sherels did a one-year internship at the U-M athletic department’s African American Student-Athletes mentoring program in...
Read moreIt’s an old story: A young man gets his first car and then goes to work on it, making it...
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