It's tough being a college freshman. Getting lost on your way to class, flunking your first college test -- running into trees. That's just what happened to Jeremy Polson, a freshman on the Gophers men's...

Luke Braaten is the kind of football player who looks forward to the moment when he hits an opponent so hard he feels it for a week. He never quits and is always running at full speed. The Gophers redshirt...

The Gophers volleyball team peaked a bit too early against Wisconsin on Wednesday night in Madison, Wisc. Not that a 6-1 lead in the first game is much of a peak, but in comparison to the rest of the...

A University student who brought charges of discrimination and retaliation against the Edina school district may be close to settling the case before it goes to trial. Michelle Gayle, a senior in the...

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. As we reach the two-week mark of the new quarter, this little saying really hits home. Does this...

The United States Supreme Court should be lauded for agreeing to hear the appeals of two lower court decisions guaranteeing assisted suicide as a constitutional right. The timely decision to take up the...

Thirty minutes after leading his players through an afternoon practice, Gophers hockey coach Doug Woog traded in his skates for cross-trainers and headed for the Mariucci Arena exercise room located far...

Athletes who suffer a major injury often share a common feeling: disbelief. For Gophers soccer player Jennifer Walek, who tore her anterior cruciate ligament in the fourth game of the season, there was...

A 20-year-old man was charged Wednesday with felony forgery stemming from a Sept. 16 incident at 718 Washington Ave. S.E. According to the Hennepin County complaint, Sitthpone Pon Phoummpvahn entered...

Elmo flinched as he felt underneath the post-operative eye patch. The surgeon's final statement echoed in Elmo's head, as it had every minute of every day for the last three months: "You'll never play...