Admissions are up, the debt has disappeared and optimism reigns supreme as the University Hospital's merger with Fairview Health Systems heads into its second year. One year after the merger, the partnership...

The 1998 season for the Minnesota women's gymnastics team got off to a successful start Saturday evening. Molly Umland's Gold team defeated Mindy Knaeble's Maroon team 168.900 to 167.525 as the team held...

University officials hope phone calls, mass mailings and informational gatherings will persuade influential business leaders, union officials and, most importantly, lawmakers to back its massive budget...

Raymond Nixon, a retired University journalism professor and international communications scholar, died Dec. 15 in Bloomington, Minn. He was 94. Nixon, who retired in 1971, was often referred to as the...

(AP) -- Here is where college football is at the start of 1998: Michigan, No. 1; Nebraska, No. 1. Where will college football be at the start of 1999? The new super alliance is supposed to eliminate a...

Six matches into the season, the Gophers wrestling team has successfully fulfilled its high-ranked expectations -- so far. Minnesota captured a handful of dominating victories over the holiday break. "The...

The Gophers women's hockey team has made several statements in its inaugural season to indicate Minnesota is not an average first-year program. Although the Gophers won the Princeton Thanksgiving Tournament...

While the 1997 Minnesota volleyball season might best be described as four head-spinning months of extremes, advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament left the Gophers on the upswing. After...

The comparisons between this year's Purdue team and last year's Minnesota team are perhaps premature, but they are also timely and relevant. Purdue (12-3, 1-1 in the Big Ten) beat Minnesota (7-5, 0-1)...

The pain in 19-year-old Morgan Montgomery's knee hurt the most after a hard workout. His 7-year-old hockey injury continued to agitate him; the joint was often tender from walking or sitting too long. Montgomery's...