The 22-year-old looks like he has just gotten out of bed, as he slowly strolls around the pool at the University Aquatic Center during practice. He is barefoot and clad in yellow shorts and a white 1996...

What I won't miss from 96: ù Fat-free but calorie-laden and cardboard-tasting cookies and desserts, and body-bloating, vitamin-sucking fat substitutes like Olestra in potato chips. Give me old-fashioned...

A vote on tenure revisions for the Morris campus has left many Morris faculty members unhappy with their new code and the way it was passed by the Board of Regents. In a Dec. 12 vote, the University's...

It was just past noon on New Year's Eve -- a time when most people are thinking about the ball dropping, not the puck. Members of the Gophers hockey team had just finished a morning practice. Virtually...

The first thing that grabs your attention is the eyes -- deep set, intense, foreboding. Angie Iverson always looks angry on the basketball court. And judging by her stats, Iverson has been playing angry....

Anticipation and excitement filled the Sports Pavilion on Saturday night as the Gophers women's gymnastics team opened its season with its annual intrasquad meet. The intrasquad meet gave Minnesota a...

and Andrew TellijohnThe federal government made sure the holiday season was anything but jolly for University officials. On Dec. 19 the U.S. Department of Justice sued the University for fraud over its...

The goals of most male college students for winter break include, sleeping, watching sporting events on TV and eating a lot of turkey. Not the Gophers men's swimming and diving teams, though. "One of...

Soon after Jim Wacker announced his resignation as Gophers football coach, men's athletics director Mark Dienhart placed a call to Kansas in search of a replacement. He hoped to find an interested Glen...

LINCOLN, Calif. (AP) -- Helicopters plucked stranded farmers from rooftops and sunken pickup trucks Friday after five days of relentless rain sent 100,000 people fleeing their homes across the West. Helicopters...