With the Big Ten Outdoor Championships just a week away, Minnesota women's track and field coach Gary Wilson has just one more weekend to set his lineup. Two competitions this weekend - the Meet of the...

Minnesota wrestler Nate Matousek's third-degree felony assault charge has been dismissed. Matousek, along with Gophers football player Marcel Jones, was charged in connection with an incident at a house...

The Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships now are in full view for Minnesota's men's and women's track and field teams. With two nondescript training events this weekend - the Meet of the Unsaintly...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Mitch Potter couldn't be happier, even though he couldn't breathe. Beaming like a proud father, the 25-year-old former Minnesota men's track and field runner was all smiles at the conclusion...

DES MOINES, Iowa - As the start gun fired smoke into the rainy sky at Drake Stadium, Minnesota's women's track and field runner Jamie Cheever started off the 4-by-1,600-meter relay by taking the Gophers...

Ruby Radocaj was one of those kids who grew up to compete in those "other" relays. Growing up in Williamsport, Pa., the javelin thrower for Minnesota's women's track and field team was raised with the...

The last time Minnesota's baseball team met South Dakota State it was a 16-11 slugfest. After Jackrabbits leadoff hitter Jake Rogers jacked a Marcus McKenzie pitch over the left field wall in the first...

The road trip ended, but the losing streak continued for Minnesota's softball team. After starting the season with 37-straight road games, the Gophers (12-29, 1-15 Big Ten) were swept by Illinois and Northwestern...

It was a record-breaking Saturday in the steeplechase for Emily Brown. Again. After breaking Minnesota's women's track and field school steeplechase record four times last season, Brown broke her own record...

Karl Erickson isn't letting anything stand in the way of winning a Big Ten title. Not even a patch of ice. Erickson, a senior on Minnesota's men's track and field team, redshirted both the indoor and outdoor...

Minnesota's baseball team didn't waste any time getting a jump on St. Thomas on Tuesday night at Midway Stadium in St. Paul. The Gophers (18-14, 6-6 Big Ten) scored four runs in the bottom of the first...

Three throwers on Minnesota's women's track and field team grabbed the top two places in three events at the Lee Krough Invitational on Friday at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter. That might make...

Even Deion Sanders eventually had to pick just one. The life of a dual-sport athlete is a tough one, balancing practice, training, travel and games - times two. It's a life that Minnesota women's track...

The same foot that carried Aaron Buzard to a fourth-place finish in the 400-meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships March 11 is now well enough for him to compete again. The junior runner on Minnesota...

Minnesota men's tennis coach David Geatz will resign at the end of the season, athletics director Joel Maturi announced Monday. Geatz is in his 18th season as the Gophers coach. Minnesota is 11-9 this...

As a little girl growing up in the Soviet Union, Nina Cotolupenco's options were limited. Without much of a choice of toys, Cotolupenco and her friends would create games for themselves, like drawing circles...

For Heather Dorniden, an 800-meter run is like a walk in the park. Fresh off winning the NCAA Indoor title in the 800 meters, Dorniden turned around and broke a school record older than she is Saturday...

It's interesting that a track and field competition is called a meet. In the case of Minnesota's men's track and field team, the team is doing anything but that this season. Every week of the outdoor season,...

Hammer throws led the way for Minnesota's men's and women's track and field teams this weekend. In his first hammer throw of the season, Adam Schnaible won the Tiger Classic in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday...

It's time for Minnesota's men's track and field team to take its outdoor season outdoors. With neither the Minnesota weather nor the indoor facilities conducive to great practice for outdoor events like...

Aug. 22, 1982, was a good day for Minnesota men's track and field coach Phil Lundin. That was the day John Albert and Kevin Netzer were born. And later, they'd both win a pair of Big Ten high-jump titles...

Minnesota's men's tennis team came just short of upsetting No. 7 Ohio State on Sunday at the Sports Pavilion. After getting swept in all three doubles matches, the Gophers battled back and nearly won enough...

Minnesota's women's tennis team has had a tough go of things all season. The Gophers (3-10, 0-1 Big Ten) have suffered through a difficult season with three of their top eight players injured, including...

More legal problems have befallen Minnesota's wrestling team, while one appears to have been lifted. Wrestler Nate Matousek and football player Marcel Jones were charged with third-degree felony assault...

OKLAHOMA CITY - As if it would have ended any other way. In the most anticipated match of the NCAA Wrestling Championships, Minnesota heavyweight Cole Konrad beat two-time defending champ Steve Mocco of...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Although four years older and almost twice his weight, Minnesota heavyweight wrestler Cole Konrad shares a special bond with 149-pound freshman Dustin Schlatter. They're both national champions. And...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Minnesota assistant wrestling coach Joe Russell compared Sunday's 149 and 157 pound Big Ten championship matches to "Romeo and Juliet." Only Dustin and C.P. Schlatter didn't fall in...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Gabe Dretsch didn't win a Big Ten wrestling championship. He didn't even win a match in the championship bracket. But Cole Konrad won his second-straight heavyweight title. And Roger...

Minnesota's wrestling team (20-1, 7-1 Big Ten) cruised through the regular season, winning its first 19 duals before falling 19-15 at Michigan on Feb. 17. The top-ranked Gophers' loss enabled the previously...

Minnesota football player Marcel Jones pleaded not guilty to third-degree felony assault charges Wednesday in Hennepin County Criminal Court. His trial is set for May 30. Jones, along with wrestler Nate...

Minnesota's wrestling team has had a different look this season. And all it took was a couple of guys with the same last name. Last year's disappointing season (9-9, 3-5 Big Ten) behind them, the top-ranked...

It's the Big Ten Championship meet, but Minnesota's women's track and field team is taking it easy. The 21st-ranked Gophers have a legitimate shot at the Big Ten Indoor Championship title ' maybe their...

Minnesotaís wrestling team responded from its first loss of the season Friday night at Michigan with a dominating show of strength Sunday at Michigan State, winning nine of 10 matches and routing the...

For once, they actually lost. Michigan ended Minnesotaís wrestling teamís dreams of an unbeaten dual meet season with a 19-15 upset win Friday night in Ann Arbor, Mich. Sometimes, when a team is rolling,...

Roger Kish left the state of Michigan in 2003 as the greatest high school wrestler to ever call the state home. At LaPeer West High School in LaPeer, Mich., Kish was a two-time national champion, four-time...

After losing the starting job at 125 pounds to redshirt freshman Travis Lang, junior Andrew Domingues has left Minnesotaís wrestling team. ìHeís just taking some time off right now," coach J Robinson...

The best ones usually do come down to the wire. It did the first time around, when Minnesota heavyweight wrestler Cole Konrad's pin of Oklahoma State's Steve Mocco broke a 15-14 score and gave Minnesota...

You've heard the terms before. Whenever a great matchup takes place in sports, one is nearly guaranteed to hear it referred to as a "clash of the titans," or perhaps an "epic battle," or possibly even...

Now the easy part's over. After back-to-back weekends in which coach J Robinson said his team could afford to take it easy, Minnesota's wrestling team hits a tough stretch run starting this weekend. The...

At least Indiana made it interesting. The Hoosiers wrestling team won three of four matches in the middle of Sunday's match with Minnesota to tie the score 13-13. Then came the major decision and technical...

At 16-0, Minnesota is off to its best start since going 19-0 in duals in 2001-2002. It's been much longer since Minnesota's Sunday opponent, Indiana, has beaten the Gophers in Minneapolis. In fact, the...

Minnesota's football team announced Wednesday that 19 players signed national letters of intent to play for the Gophers next season. The class is ranked 62nd nationally and ninth in the Big Ten by Rivals.com....

Matt Nagel remembers the sights, the sounds, the smell and the sweat. He remembers the cheers, the boos and the fact that both were drowned out amid the thrill and the joy of Minnesota's wrestling team...

The past two weekends, Minnesota's wrestling team relied on several big upsets at key weight classes to overcome Oklahoma State and Iowa. Those upsets didn't happen this weekend. But this time, that was...

Gophers football player Marcel Jones and wrestler Nate Matousek have been suspended indefinitely from "all athletic-related activity," after allegations that they assaulted a 20-year-old man on Dec. 9...

The ink is finally on the page. After a long negotiation period in which Minnesota football coach Glen Mason waited until the 11th hour to agree to the key terms of a contract extension " then waited even...

Sometimes, a 13 point margin of victory just isn't good enough. That's Minnesota wrestler Roger Kish's point of view. And why should it be, when Kish and his Gophers teammates know they could wrestle even...

For the first time in three weeks, Minnesota wrestler Dustin Schlatter is hoping the nation's top-ranked 149-pound wrestler doesn't lose. The past two weekends, Schlatter has faced the task of knocking...

Iowa was supposed to get nine points out of Alex Tsirtsis, Ty Eustice and Joe Johnston. Instead, it got only nine points in the entire dual. Though outranked in back-to-back-to-back matches at 141, 149...

After beating then-No. 1 Oklahoma State last weekend to win National Duals, Minnesota's wrestling team (12-0) is ready for a change in its level of competition, coach J Robinson said. It gets tougher. The...

Minnesota's wrestling team has a complaint with the University's athletics department: changing the rules in the middle of the game. Tickets for the important showdown between the top-ranked Gophers (12-0)...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa " There was a wrestling meet going on, and a pretty good one too. No. 2 Minnesota was locked up in a tight struggle with No. 1 Oklahoma State for the National Duals championship, and...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. " Perhaps Bryan Cupito had never played better. Minnesota's quarterback was 18-of-28 for 263 yards and a career-high four touchdowns in the Dec. 30 Music City Bowl. He threw three of those...

Last season, Minnesota's wrestling team was rife with youth, and in a near-constant state of injury. The Gophers still managed to pull things together at the end of the season, finishing in second at the...

There's no No. 18 on this team. They don't even have numbers. But the Indianapolis Colts aren't the only team shooting for 19-0. Minnesota's wrestling team (7-0) is more than one-third of the way to equaling...

Minnesota's wrestling team is off to its best start since winning the national title with a perfect dual record of 19-0 in 2001-2002. The fifth-ranked Gophers (5-0) are a quarter of the way there. But...

Mitch Kuhlman is an avid hunter. The Minnesota wrestler has taken down his fair share of big game in his day, including bears. Perhaps that's fitting. Because Kuhlman's situation wrestling at 197 pounds...

Minnesota's wrestling team went to Northern Iowa on Friday expecting to put a "thumping" on the Panthers, 165-pounder Matt Nagel said. No. 4 Nagel had to eat his words when 11th-ranked Nick Baima upset...

Minnesota's wrestling team needed 184-pounder Roger Kish to pin Alex Dolly in the last match of the meet, or the then-eighth-ranked Gophers would have lost to then-No. 17 Northern Iowa in Rochester last...

Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson said he's "not so sure" his team is off to a better start than last season. But after a 4-0 start in dual meets, the fifth-ranked Gophers have shown a marked difference...

Two members of Minnesota's wrestling team pulled off big upsets against the nation's best Monday night when Oklahoma State's heavyweight Steve Mocco and 165-pounder Johnny Hendricks fell at the hands of...

With a quick move, Minnesota heavyweight Cole Konrad finished off Oklahoma State's Steve Mocco and sealed off the evening with a two-point reversal. How symbolic. No. 2 Konrad's 4-1 win over No. 1 Mocco...

Iowa's 52-28 pasting of Minnesota's football team certainly hurt emotionally. But it also hurt Minnesota's bowl aspirations immensely. Now with Penn State (10-1, 7-1 Big Ten), Ohio State (9-2, 7-1 Big...

IOWA CITY, Iowa " There are days when Minnesota's football team could seemingly line up Barbra Streisand in the backfield and run all over an opponent. Three times this season, the Gophers had two runners...

It's entirely possible this week's Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week might not even see the field Saturday. And it's not because Minnesota running back Amir Pinnix is injured. Rather, it was injuries...

Minnesota's football team has received a verbal commitment from Wausau, Wis., wide receiver Ben Fischer. Fischer gave his verbal commitment to the Gophers on Sunday, but those close to him aren't exactly...

Linebacker Kyle McKenzie can look forward to Thanksgiving. After its 23-20 win Oct. 8 at Michigan and Saturday's 41-18 win over Michigan State, the only Michigan native on Minnesota's football team can...

Laurence Maroney never saw the field. Gary Russell didn't even see half of it. Before the end of Minnesota's football team's previous game at Indiana, Amir Pinnix hadn't seen the field in five games. But...

The "definition of a dual-threat quarterback" will meet the team with the dual-threat running game Saturday. Michigan State quarterback Drew Stanton threw for 308 yards and three touchdowns and ran for...

Minnesota's football team has received a verbal commitment from Shaker Heights, Ohio, offensive lineman Dominic Alford. Alford committed to the Gophers on Oct. 28 after a visit from Minnesota offensive...

Minnesota football coach Glen Mason said he'll be making some changes in kicker Jason Giannini's practice routine this week after the freshman missed a field goal and two extra points in Minnesota's 42-21...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Minnesota wide receiver Jared Ellerson came off the field Oct. 29 against Ohio State having played a career game - five catches for 113 yards and a touchdown. Just a few days later...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Minnesota quarterback Bryan Cupito had another solid game for Minnesota. A week after passing for 396 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions against a stingy Ohio State defense,...

Minnesota defensive back Dominic Jones wants people to look up to him. But that's awfully tough when he spends all week looking up at everyone else. Five-foot-8-inch wide receiver Jakari Wallace is the...

This is the fourth Tuesday in a row Minnesota's football team has looked ahead to its next game with the chance to become bowl-eligible. After beating Michigan 23-20 Oct. 8 in Ann Arbor, Mich., and moving...

Minnesota's football team landed a verbal commitment from defensive end Willie Dyson after the Kirkwood, Mo., native met with Gophers' coach Glen Mason on Sunday morning. Willie Dyson made his official...

You've heard the phrase "touch 'em all." That's what Ohio State kicker Josh Huston did. Ted Ginn Jr. hit the home run. Huston booted all eight of his kickoffs into the back of Minnesota's end zone for...

Ladia Albertson-Junkans had to be carried into the medical tent. Danielle Ashford cried. They wrapped their arms around the mud-splashed bodies of their teammates as big smiles stretched across their faces. After...

When Minnesota's football team (5-2, 2-2 Big Ten) plays host to No. 12 Ohio State (5-2, 3-1) at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Metrodome, many predictable things will happen. An Ohio native will hand the ball...

With its first bye week in three seasons, Minnesota's football team used the time off to heal some physical and emotional wounds. After missing the heartbreaking Wisconsin game on Oct. 15 with a shoulder...

Believe it or not, Justin Kucek still has friends. The freshman punter for Minnesota's football team dropped the snap and kicked the ball into the forearms of Wisconsin's Jonathan Casillas, allowing the...

There is no denying that what happened Saturday at the Metrodome was shocking. It seems almost inconceivable that a game so surely in Minnesota's football team's hands could slip away so quickly. After...

Minnesota football coach Glen Mason elected to start backup Tony Mortensen over Bryan Cupito, who had an injured shoulder and suffered a concussion after getting knocked out of the fourth quarter in Minnesota's...

The best explanation Minnesota football coach Glen Mason could muster up for Saturday's fiasco was "bizarre." Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez called it "crazy." Gophers running back Laurence Maroney said...

Minnesota football fans are sure to remember (and try to forget) the Gophers' 44-14 loss Oct. 1 at Penn State. As bad a performance as that was for Minnesota's defense, just imagine giving up 41 points...

Followed by several players, Minnesota running back Laurence Maroney stormed onto the field after upsetting then-No. 21 Michigan 23-20 Saturday and attempted to plant the Minnesota flag in the center of...

Minnesota football coach Glen Mason said he's still unsure of the status of "a couple guys" for Saturday's game against Wisconsin. Safeties Brandon Owens and Terrance Campbell, linebacker Mike Sherels...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - It was no surprise to see Minnesota's football team have potency in its backfield. It was a surprise to see it have success in Michigan's. After allowing Penn State to dominate the line...

After starting 6-0 and 5-0, Minnesota's football team has seen undefeated seasons and high expectations slip away at the hands of Michigan both of the past two seasons. While certainly crushing to everyone...

It was supposed to last at least another week. Minnesota's football team's game this Saturday at Michigan has been where the team has been tripped up in years past. Last year, the Wolverines ruined the...

STATE COLLEGE, Penn. - Minnesota's football team came into Saturday's game at Penn State ranked first in the country in rushing at 326.5 yards per game. But in the 44-14 loss to the Nittany Lions (5-0,...

STATE COLLEGE, Penn. - It wasn't as if Minnesota's football team didn't try to give him the ball. Gophers running back Laurence Maroney returned the opening kickoff, carried the ball twice and caught a...

You've probably heard this before: In 1999, an unranked Minnesota football team upset an undefeated, second-ranked Penn State team 24-23 on the road with a late field goal. "They had like five first round...

Daily: In Saturday's 42-35 double-overtime win against Purdue, you carried the ball 46 times for 217 yards and caught five passes for 59 yards. Do you feel capable of carrying that big of a load week in...

When the preseason AP Top 25 poll was released, four Big Ten teams were ranked in the top 15 - No. 4 Michigan, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 11 Iowa and No. 15 Purdue. Now there are five Big Ten teams in the Top...

With Minnesota's football team trailing 21-20 to Purdue late in the fourth quarter, the Gophers needed a big play from quarterback Bryan Cupito. And on a crucial third-and-eight from his own 22, Cupito...

Over the past two games, Minnesota kicker Jason Gianinni has missed five extra points. Joel Monroe made a couple kicks in the first two games, and then there's always Phil Burns waiting in the wings. But...

Anyone who has been paying even remote attention to Minnesota's football team the past three weeks has noticed the way it has been able to run all over its nonconference opponents with ease. After those...

Few of the announced 40,709 who watched Minnesota's football team take a 40-0 halftime lead over Florida Atlantic Saturday at the Metrodome were still around to see backup Gophers running back Gary Russell...

The line on Minnesota's football team's game against Florida Atlantic Saturday night at the Metrodome favored Minnesota by 31.5 points. With 4:10 left in the second quarter, the Gophers were already there. Minnesota...