All it takes is a quick look at the college football standings to see that something strange is going on: Minnesota is 3-0. But that's not the only unusual occurrence on campus this fall. Gophers receiver...

While Tiffany Gates was injured last year, the Gophers women's tennis team had to face a whole season without the two-time All-Big Ten performer. As it turned out, Minnesota needed the practice. Gates,...

University graduate student Michael Schommer moved from downtown St. Paul to downtown Minneapolis in June, at about the same time University officials began phasing out the Route 52 commuter bus system...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A shy, 73-year-old Polish poet who disavowed her Stalinist past to become an inspiration for movie makers and rock bands won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. Wislawa Szymborska...

There will be cheers. Jeers, too, maybe. No one is totally sure what the reaction will be on Saturday when Mike Hebert enters Huff Hall. In that University of Illinois arena, Hebert became a women's college...

It didn't take long for Gophers punter Steve Kemph to figure out Minnesota is a bit different than his hometown in Chicago. Kemph made his recruiting visit to the University last January. He remembers...

After meeting in private Thursday for almost two hours longer than scheduled, Board of Regents members remained tight-lipped on the extent to which tenure was discussed. Eleven of the 12 regents, three...

The death of a man whose body was found hanging from a tree Monday near the Franklin Avenue Bridge is being investigated as a suicide by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office. The man was identified...

From the very beginning of team sports, athletes have been divided into two groups. One group is composed of those who compete on the field, and the other is made up of those who watch their teammates...

There are two things athletes can do with criticism. They can take it hard, letting it break their confidence and destroy their game. Or they can take it in stride, as a challenge to do better. The goalkeepers...