As Ian Fleming once said, "Prohibition is the trigger of crime." Politicians seem to forget this on the campaign trail, where candidates cry, "I'm tough on crime" and "I'm tough on drugs." As in the time...

For nearly three hours Saturday night, the Illinois-Minnesota football game at the Metrodome was everything it was expected to be -- and maybe less. A gathering of 34,321 people, the Gophers' smallest...

For the past week, Gophers football coach Jim Wacker said he felt like a wet washcloth. He didn't get into specifics, but the cloth he referred to probably looked like one found stuck to the bottom of...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Upon learning that her team would play Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Gophers women's soccer coach Sue Montagne said she liked their chances. Granted, the Huskers...

After months of private meetings and deliberations, three candidates were publicly identified Friday as possible successors for University President Nils Hasselmo. The candidates, who have yet to be labeled...

While many of his Harvard Law School peers were making six-figure incomes and working in corporate legal firms in 1971, John Herman was working out of a shabby office and taking home considerably less...

University English professor John Hurrell said students today are more passive than in the early 1960s when anti-war activism prevailed around campus. "That was the beginning of the anti-war protests,"...

Michigan Tech coach Tim Watters said he saw a marked improvement in his team's play from Saturday's game against Minnesota to Sunday's game. Watters thought Sunday's effort -- a 3-0 loss in which the...

LEFORS, Texas (AP) -- Lefors is having trouble even giving its land away. There were 14 winners in a land giveaway put together by the tiny Texas Panhandle town in hopes of boosting its tax base and school...

and Todd Zolecki Illinois football coach Lou Tepper has coached college football in some capacity since 1967. After all that time, Tepper picked a critical moment in the Illini's 23-21 loss to the Gophers...