Sports

New-age stats taking hold in college baseball

Published July 16, 2008

Over the past three decades, baseball has gone through a statistical revolution, with more advanced formulas surfacing and more people paying attention to them. And college baseball is following suit.

Marks becomes first Gopher women’s track athlete to make U.S Olympic team

by Trevor Born
Published July 9, 2008

Living away from her husband and coach paid off for the Apple Valley native, who qualified for the Olympic team in the triple jump last week in Eugene, Ore., becoming the first Gophers women's track athlete to qualify for the games.

Boosters-sponsored trip is troubling

Published July 9, 2008

The Minnesota women's basketball team will go on a 10-day trip to Italy this summer, all of which will be paid for by donations.

Plasencia named new track coach

by Brian Deutsch
Published July 9, 2008

Longtime Gophers men's cross country coach Steve Plasencia was announced as Minnesota's next men's track and field coach Monday by Athletic Director Joel Maturi.

Lesnar sets standard as crossover athlete

by Trevor Born
Published July 2, 2008

The former WWE Champion went 33-0 in his senior year at Webster High School

Plasencia in as new men’s track and field coach

by Brian Deutsch
Published July 2, 2008

Long time Gophers cross country coach Steve Plasencia was announced as Minnesota's next men's track and field coach today by Athletic Director Joel Maturi. Plasencia will replace Phil Lundin, who left...

Gophers assistant coach punches Olympic ticket

by Brian Deutsch
Published July 2, 2008

Marks was a three-time All-American at Minnesota from 2000-2003.

Smith: “Camps are critical”

Published June 25, 2008

Coaches Tubby Smith and Tim Brewster held their annual youth camps, recently, on campus.

Next season shapes up for Gophers hockey

by Brian Deutsch
Published June 25, 2008

A historically offensive-minded team will need to switch gears and rely on its defense to compete in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association next year.

U recruit makes U.S. Olympic history

by Karlee Weinmann
Published June 25, 2008

Few people expected recent Anoka High School graduate Jake Deitchler , a Gopher wrestler-to-be, to make history. Heading into the Greco-Roman wrestling Olympic trials, Deitchler was anything but a favorite. "One...