Every season has its share of tough losses, but the Gophers women's soccer team was trying desperately to avoid one Tuesday at unranked Penn State. The road trip is historically one of the season's toughest;...

The season has barely begun, but Gophers women's golf coach Kathy Williams thinks her team already has some momentum going. A successful summer by several Gophers has helped Williams believe her team...

Since University President Nils Hasselmo announced last year that he intends to retire next July, the clock has been ticking on the University's search for a new president. Members of the University community...

The occasional smell of manure on the St. Paul campus is, to some faculty members, preferable to the more common odor of automobile exhaust in Minneapolis. Yet some students who attend the University...

For the first time since 1989, the Gophers women's tennis team is heading into a year on the heels of a winning season. Last year's squad finished 16-8, including a 9-4 conference mark and a tie for third...

Tyrone Carter was a little nervous. The Gophers freshman, who averaged three touchdowns per game as a high school senior in Pompano Beach, Fla., was preparing for his first start as a college player and...

In one week, a back-up safety has become a front-line scorer. A walk-on kicker has become a big-money performer. And a ridiculed football team has become a gutty, confident unit. The Gophers upgraded...

On the heels of a Big Ten title and a slew of individual awards, the Gophers women's soccer team had some high expectations heading into the 1996 season. And thus far, they haven't disappointed. The team...

In a promotional campaign several years ago, one of the University's more prominent alumni, Garrison Keillor, called this institution "one of the glories of this state." Those eloquent words appeared on...

The owner of the Viking Bar, located at 1829 Riverside Avenue S., was stabbed to death Sept. 17 by a patron who was asked to leave. Scott Dennis Nelson, 44, tried to make the man leave the bar and the...