Some sported their team logo neatly carved into a haircut, others wore T-shirts painted with inspiring slogans. Nearly 300 Big Ten swimmers practiced Wednesday morning in preparation for the 15th annual...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Known for his ego and abrasive style, Richard Holbrooke was the picture of grace Wednesday as he stepped down from government service, his Balkan peacemaker role still unfinished. He...

I woke up this morning to the sound of an electric alarm. The first thing I did was turn on my radio. After shaving with an electric shaver, I quickly got dressed and checked my personal organizer. Minutes...

Nearly a year after his indictment, Dr. John Najarian was acquitted Wednesday morning of all criminal charges against him. In the wake of the jury's decision, Najarian made ambitious plans for his future,...

Once the Gophers men's basketball team gets through watching the videotape from Wednesday night's game against Ohio State, chances are the tape will be shoved in the back of their video library, never...

Gophers pole vaulter Vesa Rantanen is known to shoot hoops from time to time during track practice at the east end of the University Field House. His excuse is that basketball is a training regiment,...

I would like to respond to Joe Roche's column, "Students worse off from 21-and-up law" (Tuesday). I am a graduate student in the School of Public Health working in alcohol prevention. Roche's arguments...

In the governor's 1996 capital bonding request, he included a $10 million allocation for a new women's hockey arena and a permanent indoor home for the men's and women's tennis teams. The proposed Mariucci...

The University's Academic Health Center might receive more money from the Legislature -- but there's a catch. The University of Minnesota Finance Division of the House Education Committee recommended...

Gophers hockey player Nick Checco still remembers the first time his teammate, Jay Moser, picked him up in an old, beat-up TransAm. The paint was chipping, its body was rusty and it purred like a kitten. "I...