The more things change, the more they stay the same. After losing six seniors from last year's Big Ten Championship team, the Gophers men's swimming and diving team is once again in a similar position...

(AP) -- Cincinnati, with relentless clawing by its defense and incessant jawing by coach Bob Huggins, has reached the NCCA Tournament's Elite Eight three times in the last five years. Could this be the...

Of the three dancers who made their way onstage, only two danced on their toes. The third, Mary Verdi-Fletcher, coasted in her wheelchair. "People need to see that they can achieve their dreams and aspirations...

Is it just me, or does it seem like every time you pick up a newspaper there's another story about a guy from University athletics who's in trouble? Most recently, of course, we had the covert antics of...

CHARKHI DADRI, India (AP) -- As a Kazak cargo plane flew head-on toward a Saudi jetliner, controllers told its pilot to watch out for the 747 in the clouds ahead. The pilot asked how close it was. "Fourteen...

In Mayra Gomez's letter ("Cuba's human rights abuses trivialized," Monday) on Cuba's socio-political conditions, she claims that she "would make the same claim for the United States but that is not my...

Put a Republican and a Democrat together in the same room and they will likely argue what role the government should play in people's lives. The debate over the government's role in protecting the public...

Gophers women's basketball coach Linda Hill-MacDonald says a turning point for the upcoming season, which begins today, actually occurred in the final game of the 1995-96 season. Minnesota was matched...

Across the street from the University's planned Gateway Center -- which will use the arch from old Memorial Stadium as its symbolic cornerstone -- plans have been made to erect another kind of landmark....

Prior to practice Wednesday, one day after Gophers football coach Jim Wacker announced his resignation, freshman running back Byron Evans was pulled aside to discuss the prospects of playing for a new...