Adam Bailey likes field goals. He'd like them even more if they were worth four or five points, but that isn't likely to happen anytime soon. Unlike the postal rate, field goals have stayed consistently...

On a day when the Gophers men's golf team needed to be at its best, it was just that. Minnesota rebounded from an 8-over first round at the NCAA Championships to shoot 13-under Thursday, vaulting into...

Gophers men's tennis player Tom Chicoine continued his hot streak Wednesday, defeating San Diego State's Alex Waske 6-3, 3-6, 7-6, in the first round of the NCAA singles Championships in Athens, Ga. Chicoine...

It's official. No one can call the Gophers men's tennis team's title this weekend at the NCAA Region IV Championships a surprise. Disregard Minnesota's low seed (sixth out of eight teams), throw out the...

Unfamiliar territory -- its home park -- brought familiar results for the Gophers softball team Thursday night. Playing in its first games of the year at the Bierman Softball Complex, Minnesota (28-8)...

In some seasons, Reggie Berg's 34 points in WCHA games wouldn't even have gotten him into the top five of the league leaders. But the effect of the less-from-more nature of the league trickled down to...

It was supposed to be the blueprint for an entire season, not just one series. Instead of winning its first road game in more than four months on the last weekend of the regular season, the Gophers men's...

One year after celebrating a league championship alongside their men's basketball counterparts, members of the Gophers men's hockey team looked to the roundballers for a harder lesson Thursday. Junior...

The Gophers women's softball team is ranked No. 18 in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) poll released Wednesday. Minnesota, 12-3 overall and riding a nine-game winning streak, was not...

The Gophers baseball team, which started 1-6 last season against a tough stretch of southern schools, had considerably better results to start the 1998 season. After defeating Nebraska 6-3 in 11 innings...

The Gophers men's tennis team earned a key early-season upset late Saturday night, downing No. 24 Kansas 4-3 in a six-hour dual match in Lawrence, Kan. Minnesota (3-1) earned the doubles point and claimed...

A false appearance of happiness -- along with a sweaty brow and gritted teeth -- has accompanied many Gophers football coaches to numerous press conference podiums. Three decades of, at best, mediocre...

The No. 10 Gophers women's gymnastics team rebounded from its first loss of the season last weekend by defeating No. 11 Ohio State 193.500 to 191.575 Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. Sophomore Judy Cavazos...

It was predicted, because of the state's strong history in the sport and the stockpile of talented players that tradition produces, that the Gophers women's hockey team would be competitive in this, its...

Ross Bernstein does not claim to be a great novelist. From conversations with him, it seems that his priorities fall in the following order: sports fan first, marketing specialist second and writer a...

Tim Klobuchar The task of going into the Michigan Wolverines' home arena in the midst of a five-game losing streak is daunting enough for the Gophers, what with Michigan's intimidating front line led...

The topic of conversation produced a one-word sentence from Gophers assistant men's athletics director Pat Forciea: "Milk." That was a concise summary of the three-year, $242,500 sponsorship deal agreed...

The comparisons between this year's Purdue team and last year's Minnesota team are perhaps premature, but they are also timely and relevant. Purdue (12-3, 1-1 in the Big Ten) beat Minnesota (7-5, 0-1)...

Gophers swimmer Gretchen Hegener and Wisconsin track and field athlete Kathy Butler on Tuesday were named Big Ten-Suzy Favor Women's Athletes of the Year in one of the closest votes in the history of...

Mankato State athletics director Don Amiot said he knew the school's hockey program was moving closer to its goal of gaining membership in the WCHA when he received a letter from league commissioner Bruce...

Matt Schlessman, a senior swimmer from Avon, Ohio, on Thursday received Minnesota's Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor. Each Big Ten school presents this award annually to a student-athlete who excels...

Mike Crowley, a junior defenseman on the Gophers hockey team, decided late Sunday night to reject the latest contract offer from the NHL's Anaheim Mighty Ducks. Unless the Ducks make a counter-offer during...

USA Basketball on Monday announced Gophers junior Sam Jacobson is among 16 finalists for the 1997 USA Men's 22 & Under World Championship Team. A total of 61 players tried out for the team. The 16...

For the fourth consecutive season, courtside seats for Gophers men's basketball games at Williams Arena will be available through an auction. The seats, located behind the scorer's table, are awarded...

Gophers hockey defenseman Mike Crowley said he will make a decision this weekend about whether he is returning for his senior season or leaving Minnesota to sign a pro contract with the NHL's Anaheim...

Steve DeBus picked up his telephone after just one ring Wednesday afternoon. Unfortunately for him, it wasn't a scout from an NHL team calling -- it was just a reporter. DeBus, the starting goaltender...

Gophers freshman women's tennis player Nora Sauska lost on Monday in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championships, falling to No. 1 seed Karin Miller of Duke, 6-3, 6-4. Sauska, a native of Budapest,...

Fact: The Women's Professional Fastpitch softball league begins spring training today and starts its inaugural 72-game regular season May 30. Fact: Whether there will be a season number-two is up for...

Gophers hockey defenseman Mike Crowley said on Monday that he's still mulling over his career options but will decide by June 1 whether he's going to return this fall for his senior season at Minnesota...

A frustrating season for the Gophers softball team officially ended Sunday night when the squad learned it didn't receive a bid to the 32-team NCAA tournament. Minnesota (37-19, 10-13 in the Big Ten)...

Something didn't feel right to Rene Sbrocco on Monday afternoon. It's wasn't the kind of feeling you get when you think you're in danger or have a nagging suspicion that you forgot to turn your iron off. It...

Gophers softball coach Lisa Bernstein-O'Brien figured her team would have a chance to play its way into an NCAA tournament bid. But since Minnesota finished tied for sixth in the Big Ten and missed the...

Much like an author struggling to find the right descriptive word, members of the Gophers softball team have spent the last two and a half weeks hoping they would break out of their offensive slump. After...

Shannon Beeler's home run to left center field in the bottom of the ninth inning, which gave the Gophers softball team a doubleheader sweep against Drake on Thursday, could not have been much more dramatic. Beeler's...

The result of the Gophers softball team's doubleheader at Wisconsin on Tuesday, particularly game one, has to make members of the squad feel jinxed. But the action at a different pair of games provided...

Despite losing six of seven games during the middle of the season, the Gophers softball team still controls its own destiny as far as making the Big Ten tournament is concerned. Only the top four regular...

Normally, when a member of the Gophers softball team scores a run, several players leap out of the dugout to offer congratulations at home plate. But the nature of the team's celebration in the second...

An informal poll of Gophers softball players concerning the team's hitting in the past seven games would likely draw these results: "Unproductive" -- 0 votes. "Unproductive is not a strong enough adjective"...

Amber Hegland looked like she was storing a fistful of gravel in her mouth as she walked off the field after the sixth inning of game two of the Gophers softball team's doubleheader against Iowa. Minnesota...

Gophers softball coaches and players pride themselves on being able to stay loose and focused at the same time, no matter if the club is playing well or not. The juxtaposition that defines the team was...

A season of streaks for the Gophers softball team continued this weekend when Michigan completed a three-game sweep of Minnesota. The Gophers dropped their first three Big Ten games before rattling off...

In a conversation Thursday afternoon, Michigan's Carol Hutchins didn't speak with the confidence one might expect of a coach who has led a team to four Big Ten titles in the last five years. The reason...

Last season, the Gophers softball team hosted Michigan in the final weekend of the season with a Big Ten championship on the line. But Minnesota, which needed a sweep to win the title, dropped two of...

The Gophers softball team found out Wednesday that strength isn't always in numbers -- sometimes it's in distance. Despite outhitting host Northwestern 6-2 in game one of a doubleheader, Minnesota lost...

In the last two games that Gophers softball pitcher Steph Klaviter has started, Jennifer Johnson has come on in relief to earn the save. Stress the earn on that. In two consecutive starts, Klaviter plowed...

When car keys get lost, nine times out of 10 the place they turn up is obvious -- a jacket pocket, a table or even a car door. But sometimes they end up somewhere obscure, like the refrigerator. The Gophers...

Watching a Gophers softball game is sometimes more like observing a 10-year high school reunion than a competitive college sporting event. Strange barnyard imitations flow freely in the dugout. Infield...

After winning the first game of its Wednesday doubleheader against Northern Iowa, 2-0, the Gophers softball team looked as if it would complete the sweep with ease. Minnesota scored three runs in the...

Continued bad weather has forced the Gophers softball team to adjust its schedule once again for this week's games. Minnesota, which had the last game of its series with Indiana cancelled Sunday, postponed...

Considering the recent offensive struggles of the Gophers softball team, its eight-run outburst in the first inning of Saturday's series opener against Indiana was a little surprising, even to its optimistic...