You learn a lot about life when you're covering the Gophers men's basketball team.
Somehow, by some random act of God, I've done that for the past two years. I went to the Final Four, saw Indiana coach...
I received a message on my pager on a Wednesday afternoon last summer calling me to the Billy Graham Crusade at the Metrodome that evening. The reporter who was assigned to cover the event couldn't make...
Wacker. The name alone is enough to make you smile. Throw in an infectious personality and a fruity vocabulary, and you'll have a decent picture of the man that oversaw one of the most memorable periods...
As the long snowy winter on the Northern plains turned into a long snowy spring, the country watched both rivers and tensions rise.
Nowhere, perhaps, was as much devastation visible as in my hometown...
In his hilarious book, "Seasons in Hell," Mike Shropshire describes what it was like to cover the fantastically rotten Texas Rangers of the mid-1970s on a daily basis. Shropshire, working for the Fort...
Think of a reporter. Odds are you've just pictured someone in a trench coat, standing among a gaggle of other journalists furiously taking notes and shouting questions to a politician or a criminal or...
I am told that the World and Nation page is one of the most read sections in the Daily. It is also, I have heard, the main source of news on national and international events for many students.
For the...
Maybe it's a sign of the times, a result of new-found independence or just a form of expression. Whatever the causes, the University and its athletic teams have seen an increase in the number of tattoos...
Drunken cheers greeted me as I walked up to the front porch of the Stadium Village house.
"Tracy's here -- that means we're going to win," said Eric Hanson, last year's Minnesota Student Association vice...
Along with buildings, bike paths and bookstores, Universities have bridges. But while most of these objects have physical foundations, not every bridge is visible.
The University is currently building...
