Over the course of a collegiate athleteâÄôs career, there are bound to be various highs and lows for the individual and his or her team. The hope is that both player and team finish on the better...

When the Minnesota womenâÄôs tennis team fell to Big Ten foes Illinois and Indiana last month, head coach Tyler Thomson questioned his teamâÄôs attitude. He said it would need an adjustment...

After ending the regular season with six straight team losses, the Gophers women's tennis team saw its free-fall continue Thursday, this time costing the team its post-season. Minnesota entered the Big...

The long wait between the end of the football season and the NFL draft paid off for two Gophers, as wide receiver Eric Decker and linebacker Nate Triplett heard their names called during the three-day...

For a select few, Thursday marks the beginning of the dream. Collegiate football hope a culmination of years of hard work and on-field performance will be rewarded when NFL commissioner Roger Goodell walks...

Grinder is a term often used to describe the fourth-line hockey player whose main purpose is to serve as an on-ice filler while the top-shift players rest before reclaiming their spots on the ice. Jackie...

Losing weekends in any sport are bound to happen. The troubling aspect for the Gophers womenâÄôs tennis team is not that it was swept this weekend by Illinois and Indiana, but the lack of emotional...

A transfer student-athlete in her first year at Minnesota may be the best diver in the nation. But for Kelci Bryant, even that is not good enough. Bryant is only a sophomore, but she has earned a list...

For the second straight weekend, the Gophers menâÄôs and womenâÄôs tennis teams had up and down results against Big Ten competition. At home after two matches in Michigan last weekend,...

In his final academic semester at the University, Gophers wrestler Jayson Ness earned a place on the Big Ten Winter Academic All-Conference team. Ness is 1 of 61 wrestlers to receive the academic honor,...

On the surface, they couldnâÄôt be more different. Geographically, the United States is nearly 8,000 miles from Uganda . Economically, the difference is even vaster. While the United States experiences...

The Gophers menâÄôs and womenâÄôs tennis teams both saw Big Ten conference action, with each team ending the weekend with one win and one loss. On the womenâÄôs side, head coach...

The voice of Gophers mens hockey for the past 24 years is no more, as Fox Sports North announced Frank Mazzocco will not have his contract renewed for next season. Mazzocco had teamed with former Gophers...

Gophers senior forwards Tony Lucia and Mike Carman have signed professional contracts with the NHL teams that drafted their rights. Tony Lucia signed a deal with the San Jose Sharks, who drafted the forward...

Just hours before the play-in game between Minnesota-Duluth and North Dakota kicks off the Western Collegiate Hockey Association Final Five, the WCHA named its major award winners, and Minnesota was...

Following the first losing season in over a decade, the Minnesota men's hockey team will have to rebound next year without it's most potent playmaker, as sophomore Jordan Schroeder has signed an entry...

FINAL-Minnesota will be on the outside looking in of the WCHA Final Five for the first time in 12 seasons. The Gophers drop to 3-2 all-time in Game 3's. North Dakota takes the season series 3-2-2. 00:42...

A weekend series which has seen one of the worst postseason losses in the history of Minnesota men's hockey as well as one of its best played games of the season concludes tonight, with a trip to St. Paul...

FINAL-A Gophers team that looked dead in the water just 24 hours ago pulls off the stunner 4-2, forcing a deciding game 3 tomorrow night. GOPHERS 4; NORTH DAKOTA 2. 00:00.5 3rd-Jordan Schroeder adds the...

FINAL-Minnesota is humiliated, left to wonder how they are handed their worst loss of the season, and arguably of the Don Lucia era, in a game they had to win... 4:27 3rd-North Dakota hadn't scored in...

We are just under one hour away from the post-season edition of the most intense rivalry in college hockey. While this isn't the dominant Minnesota team of years past, Don Lucia's current squad enters...

The conclusion of the menâÄôs hockey regular season also signals the end to all the hypothetical playoff scenarios, tiebreaker possibilities and playoff pairings. Now, the ten teams have been officially...

FINAL-In a game with no playoff implications except possible momentum moving forward, Minnesota absolutely dominated, winning 6-1. 4:57 3rd-Frustration is starting to boil over for the Badgers, resulting...

Due to action around the conference on a busy Saturday night, today's game between the Gophers and Badgers that could have had serious playoff implications for not just those two teams but the entire conference...

FridayâÄôs 3-2 loss to Wisconsin sealed MinnesotaâÄôs fate as the No. 7 seed in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs. Saturday, two other conference games determined where...

After suffering a devestating 3-2 heartbreaker at the hands of No. 3 Wisconsin in a Target Center showdown, the Minnesota men's hockey team has sealed its playoff seeding fate. Combined with a Colorado...

FINAL-Minnesota loses a heartbreaker 3-2. The Gophers had several goals taken away upon review, and Schroeder alone had four excellent chances, none of which found the back of the net. 4:12 3rd-Despite...

2:31 3rd-After pulling Kangas with three minutes left, Justin Fontaine capitalizes, netting the empty netter. GOPHERS 0; MINNESOTA-DULUTH 3. 11:33 3rd-Kevin Wehrs led a Gophers three-on-two, but Wehrs...

Before I get started with the pre-game report, apologies for not producing a live blog of last night's 3-2 Gophers win. Technical difficulties effecting the site prevented me from doing any live blogging....

In the final regular season series at the DECC, Minnesota-Duluth will take on its interstate rivals in a game with playoff seeding implications for both teams. On the Bulldogs side, a three or four point...

Following a three point weekend in the home sweep of Colorado College, defenseman Nick Leddy has been named the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's Rookie of the Week. This is the first WCHA rookie...

With just two weeks remaining in the regular season, it is time to start looking ahead to possible first round match-ups of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association conference tournament. For those unfamiliar...

FINAL-Minnesota earned its third home sweep of the season at the final full regular season series at Mariucci Arena. The Gophers earned a much needed four points, and have now thrust themselves in contention...

Fresh off the heels of a 3-0 Friday night win, Minnesota will look for a sweep roughly 19 hours later in a rare 3 p.m. start. Moved early to account for the time shift in today's Gophers men's basketball...

Due to technical difficulties we were unable to blog yesterday's Gophers men's hockey game after midway through the second period, but the remainder of the game saw Minnesota do what it could not all season...