At a media luncheon earlier this season, Gophers football coach Jim Wacker said split end Ryan Thelwell has "probably the most beautiful smile in the world." That smile was mostly absent following the...

The University might be moving closer to accomplishing its goals of increasing minority enrollment, based on a student registration report released Monday. The University report, which provides official...

Saturday's pathetic Homecoming loss to Michigan State was the last straw. The 27-9 trouncing was the football team's 10th-straight Big Ten loss and virtually seals the Gophers fate of yet another losing...

The Gophers soccer team tied the team record of five consecutive wins Sunday with their 1-0 victory over Ohio State. The 1995 Big Ten championship team opened its season with five wins. But this streak...

Sheila Wellstone never had any interest in public speaking. "I never would have thought I would be able to stand up and talk in front of people. I remember when Paul was running I would be asked to introduce...

University sociology professor William Brustein remembers how his aunt burst into tears when he bought a Volkswagen -- a German-manufactured car -- at age 16. His aunt, one of nine children born to a...

It's been five years since the demise of the Soviet Union. The Cold War is finished. Not a single nuclear missile remains aimed at U.S. cities and industrial centers. Even the most hawkish commentators...

Gone was the wise-cracking, jovial Doug Woog whose good humor permeates most post-game press conferences. In his place was a somber, toned-down Woog who apologized several times for letting his team,...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- Voting by mail has been popular in Ramsey County, with more than 20,000 people asking for vote-by-mail ballots for the upcoming elections. The county's success might help efforts to expand...

A federal jury acquitted Dr. John Najarian last February of 15 felony counts and a federal judge dismissed six others, including conspiracy to defraud the government in his handling of the organ-transplant...