Like a bad case of the flu, situations like this may seem to cloud around Pat Forciea. Professional sports teams uprooting their history and bolting for beaucoup bucks in unforgiving cities, craving the...

Theory: Clem Haskins believes a team built with no superstars is one primed for success. Evidence: In three consecutive years, the superstar player has put Big Ten championship plaques in Purdue coach...

John Mariucci is commonly known as the Godfather of Gophers hockey. To this day, the former player and coach is remembered as the man who made it the dream of every young boy from Minnesota to play for...

The Gophers volleyball team ran into trouble with fog this weekend. Their heads were in it Friday. And on Sunday morning in Waterloo, Iowa -- a stopover en route from Illinois -- they were socked in it. Luckily,...

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...

Not regarded as a volleyball hotbed, the country of Belgium is making an impact on the Big Ten. Take Saturday's game at the Sports Pavilion. Sure, there were players from Minnesota and Ohio State's rosters...

It wasn't a playoff game or a final four, but the Gophers volleyball team played Saturday like a Big Ten title was on the line. The fans at the Sports Pavilion felt it, too. All 1,311 stood during game-deciding...

There's no hiding now. The Gophers volleyball team opens up its Big Ten season tonight and Coach Mike Hebert has two familiar foes to deal with in his first weekend. "Anyone who sees that we're going...

The Heidi's are gone, but the Gophers move on. Heidi Olhausen and Heidi Foesch, a tandem that combined for 4.64 kills per game, are gone after their eligibility ran out last season. But every other Minnesota...

It began as an accident. But in 20 years, the coaching career of Dr. Mike Hebert has shown purpose. Just ask women's athletics director Chris Voelz, who hired Hebert in December with hopes of resuscitating...

Four injuries didn't prevent the Gophers volleyball team from four victories at the Eagle Classic in Boston this weekend. With Tara Baynes on the bench resting an injured back, and Katrien DeDecker, Becky...

Minnesota's Rob Kerr shot a 7-over-par 79 Thursday at the NCAA Men's Golf Championships in Chattanooga, Tenn., and did not qualify for today's third round. Kerr, the only Gophers golfer at NCAAs this...

Firing a 6-over-par 78, Minnesota's Rob Kerr was in a tie for 95th place on Wednesday after the first round of the NCAA Men's Golf Championships in Chattanooga, Tenn. "The scores are kind of high, so...

Rob Kerr's unlikely win two weeks ago at the NCAA Central Golf Regional came as a surprise to many, including the Gophers' sophomore. But according to Kerr's coach, the win was inevitable. Kerr made up...

On his approach to the final hole at the NCAA Central Regional tournament in Ann Arbor, Mich., Rob Kerr's thoughts were on his teammates, not himself. It was an unselfish gesture by the sophomore from...

Rob Kerr is one of the Gophers golf team's young guns. A former junior champion in his native Quebec, Kerr redshirted the 1994-95 season and knew that he would be among several qualified underclassman...

They say there's no place like home. But the problem for the Gophers men's golf team is, there is no home. Gophers sports teams typically play to big crowds at their respective homes. Williams Arena....

Behind senior Aaron Barber's tie for fifth place, the Minnesota men's golf team placed fourth at this weekend's Big Ten championships at the Penn State Blue Course in University Park, Pa. Barber led all...

This season the Minnesota men's golf team has matched up against Ohio State and Northwestern more than they'd care to admit. The Gophers will get friendly with those schools again today as the 1996 Big...

Sophomore Amy Dahle, the only Gophers women's golfer in postseason play, will begin the first round of the NCAA East Regional Golf Tournament today in Auburn, Ala. "It's kind of nerve-racking," said Dahle,...

Kongzheng Li, a former Olympic bronze medalist with an eye for athletes around the globe, was announced on Monday as Minnesota's new head diving coach. Beginning July 1 Li, a native of China and a 1984...

Gophers Devon Coellner, Tanya Schuh and Beth Shimanski have teammate Olga Splichalova to thank for getting them into next month's NCAAs. And while they're at it, they ought to thank Coach Jean Freeman,...

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...