The picks eventually turned into rounds and then a day for Greg Eslinger. Finall,y at the end of Sunday, in the sixth round of the NFL Draft, the Outland Trophy-winning Minnesota center was selected by...

DES MOINES, Iowa - On Friday afternoon at the Drake Relays, Minnesota's women's track and field team came out and set a school record in the distance medley relay, breaking the old mark by more than 16...

With Laurence Maroney less than a week away from more than likely being selected in the first round of the NFL draft, 1,413 of the 3,198 rushing yards gained by Minnesota's football team last season will...

The last time the defense for Minnesota's football team was on the field in a game, Virginia quarterback Marcus Haggans was torching the Gophers secondary for 365 passing yards and leading the Cavaliers...

Today Minnesota's baseball team will play its only game this season at Siebert Field, the on-campus home to Gophers baseball since 1971. And for almost the entire time Minnesota has been playing at Siebert,...

On April 10, Minnesota Athletics Director Joel Maturi announced in a statement that men's tennis coach David Geatz would resign at the end of the season. But layered beneath all the wording in the statement...

Losing six seniors seemed like it was going to make refiguring next year's team hard enough for Minnesota's women's basketball coach Pam Borton. Then, in the two weeks after the season ended, five players...

Tonight Maryland women's basketball coach Brenda Frese will lead her team against Duke in the national championship game. Four years and four days ago, her last name was Oldfield, and she was in her last...

The setup wasn't at all conducive for a basketball game. At the NCAA men's basketball Regional at the Metrodome, the court was built lengthwise from the end of one end zone to the 30-yard line. A semicircle...

All the talk after Villanova's 60-59 overtime win over Boston College in Friday night's regional semifinal centered on guard Randy Foye's 29-point performance that led the Wildcats to the victory. But...

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to hold the Minneapolis regional somewhere just off Interstate 95. All four of the teams competing at this weekend's NCAA men's basketball regional hail from the Eastern...

After a Feb. 5 blowout win over Michigan, Minnesota's women's basketball team seemed like it was ready to make a run at the Big Ten title and possibly the Final Four. Minnesota had won seven-straight games,...

Minnesota's women's track and field team came into this weekend's Big Ten Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships giving some runners rest and looking toward the outdoor season. Even so, the Gophers...

Coming into its weekend series at Mariucci Arena, there might not have been a hotter team in menís hockey than Denver. When the series was over, it was pretty clear the title of hottest team belongs to...

When he was announced to the crowd before Minnesota's men's basketball team's game against Michigan State, faint boos rained down from Williams Arena onto coach Dan Monson. After the Gophers' 69-55 win...

It makes sense to see Damion Hahn on Minnesota's wrestling bench this season. Hahn, a four-time All-American for the Gophers and a 197-pound national champion in 2003 and 2004, is the last Minnesota wrestler...

The defensive intensity from last year never went anywhere. So what, then, has been the problem for Minnesota's men's basketball team this season? The leading scorer, All-Big Ten guard Vincent Grier, is...

In a little more than 24 hours Glen Mason's future as head football coach for Minnesota would be decided. Nine seasons as the man heading the Gophers' football program, and there was still uncertainty...

Drew Olson vs. Laurence Maroney: It was a potential bowl matchup that held such promise and looked realistic. The Division I seventh-ranked scoring offense against the second-ranked rushing offense in...

It seemed like it should be at least a little bit panic-inducing. Vincent Grier, Minnesota's men's basketball star, has an injury to his shooting hand. The Gophers' leader in points per game and steals...

The first three weeks of competition for Minnesota's wrestling team have yielded some promise. The Gophers took home nine individual titles at the season-opening Bison Open. Matt Nagel and Cole Konrad...

The 2005 Minnesota football regular season ended like so many others have under coach Glen Mason's watch: with embarrassing disappointment. The Gophers have lost their last regular season game every year...

After rolling to nine individual titles in its opening weekend in Fargo, N.D., the competition stiffened for Minnesota's wrestling team this weekend at the Kaufman-Brand Open in Omaha, Neb. The fifth-ranked...

Matt Koz, last year's 197- pound starter for Minnesota's wrestling team as a redshirt freshman, has left the team. Koz, who did not compete at last weekend's season-opening Bison Open in Fargo, N.D., and...

Last week, Fox 9 News ran its "investigative series," on underage men's hockey players drinking at Blarney Pub and Grill in Dinkytown. Wednesday, coach Don Lucia addressed the media about the reports and...

The last time Minnesota's wrestling team was on the mats, the Gophers tied for fifth at the NCAA Championships in St. Louis in March. This Saturday at the Bison Open in Fargo, N.D., No. 5 Minnesota put...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Minnesota's football team scored 27 unanswered points to open the second half and turn a 14-7 halftime deficit into an eventual 42-21 win at Indiana on Saturday. Sophomore running back...

The development started in the waning moments of the Purdue game. It took a hiatus the next week at Penn State, but came back in full force the week after that in Michigan. The next chance anyone had to...

The rest of the cross country world obviously wasn't impressed before the season started. Minnesota's women's cross country team began the year unranked, coming off its third straight season without an...

It's a daunting task for Mason to extricate even two victories from (the remaining schedule)." I wrote that about Minnesota's football team last week in this space. And that was the part when I treated...

With the schedule taking Minnesota's volleyball team to No. 22 Purdue and always-dangerous Illinois next weekend, Friday's match against Big Ten cellar-dweller Indiana figured to be an easy road tune up...

After the disaster that was Saturday's game at Penn State, Minnesota's football team is in crisis condition. There were multiple flaws exposed in the Gophers after they were systematically drubbed by a...

At halftime of Minnesota's soccer team's Big Ten opener against Purdue, 2005 inductees to the Minnesota athletics hall of fame were honored on the field. Odds are a few of the Gophers playing in their...

Two years ago, Minnesota's undefeated season disintegrated at the hands of Michigan seniors Chris Perry and John Navarre. Last year it was Michigan tight end Tyler Ecker slipping tackles from John Pawielski...

Heard the one about Minnesota football coach Glen Mason being offered the Purdue head coaching job in 1997? Well, according to him, you can put that one to bed. "(That's) not accurate," Mason said. "I...

When looking at the four coaches hired into the Big Ten in 1997, there's a clear pecking order. Cam Cameron's five years at Indiana ended with an 18-37 career record and zero bowl games, despite four years...

Minnesota's volleyball team is ranked fifth in the country and has a record of 7-1, with the one defeat a five-game loss at the hands of No. 1 Nebraska. But to hear coach Mike Hebert tell it - even after...

After Tuesday night's match, Minnesota volleyball coach Mike Hebert listed problems his team needed to rectify. Almost as an afterthought, he named one positive from the match in Rochester, Minn.: His...

Although this weekend won't see the Minnesota's women's track and field team play host to the Minnesota Open, it's still close enough to give coach Gary Wilson a Saturday off. The Gophers will compete...

The Belmont Stakes has been under way all year for Minnesota's women's track and field team. The colts are young, and distance is unparalleled in terms of what they've done before. But coming down the...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Last year, in his senior season at Minnesota, runner Adam Steele was forced out of the special division of the 400-meter dash finals at the Drake Relays with a hamstring injury. During...

DES MOINES, Iowa - When Ryan Ford took the baton from Trent Riter, he had only his ears to tell him about the rest of the field. Anchoring Minnesota's men's track and field 4x1,600-meter relay team Friday...

Minnesota women's track and field coach Gary Wilson admits he's usually not short of words. But finding out about his induction into the Drake Relays Hall of Fame caused a sudden change in his usual loquacity. After...

Minnesota's men's track and field team's split weekend led to split results. One location yielded championships, while the other gave Minnesota regional qualifying marks. The Gophers' distance runners,...

Minnesota's soccer team played 180 minutes of soccer this weekend in the Gopher Spring Classic. And through all of it, the Gophers were unable to dent the net. Minnesota was shut out in a pair of games...

Minnesota's baseball team defeated South Dakota State 19-13 in 10 innings Wednesday in Sioux Falls, S.D. The Gophers scored six times in the top of the 10th, highlighted by freshman second baseman Joe...

Pole vaulter Andrea Smith finally had a chance to do her laundry during the weekend. As her first real break since March, the weekend was more than a laundry break for the Minnesota women's track and field...

Minnesota's men's track and field team has finished in the top two at the Big Ten Championships in eight of Phil Lundin's nine years as coach. During that same period of time, Lundin said, Minnesota high...

For Minnesota's men's track and field team, a split squad during the weekend meant a chance to use events as both warm-weather qualifiers and chances for oft-rested runners to get into competition. The...

On New Year's Eve 2004, John Shevlin and David Lockwood each debuted at new spots for Minnesota's football team. Lockwood coached his first game as the Gophers' defensive coordinator against Alabama at...