Gophers baseball coach John Anderson had a hard time putting his team's 9-7 come-from-behind win over Mankato State on Friday night at the Metrodome into words. During post-game interviews, Anderson was...

A year ago when the Gophers men's basketball team advanced to the Final Four, large caravans of Minnesota fans traveled to every NCAA tournament game and all the campus-area bars and restaurants overflowed...

Coming into the final series of the regular season Friday night against second-place St. Cloud State, the seventh-place Gophers men's hockey team was searching for anything to turn its abysmal season...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The seven Gophers women's basketball players suspended earlier in the week by coach Cheryl Littlejohn for team rules violations stood silently underneath one of the baskets at the RCA...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Senior center Angie Iverson stood outside the visitor's locker room at the RCA Dome 20 minutes after the Gophers women's basketball team's 65-47 season-ending loss to Wisconsin in the...

It's amazing what close games against two of the top three teams in the conference can do for the confidence of a team mired in the midst of an 11-game losing streak and a 4-22 season. But that was just...

Coach Cheryl Littlejohn on Monday suspended seven members of the Gophers women's basketball team for violating team rules late Sunday night. Littlejohn notified her players of the suspensions Monday during...

Sometimes fate has a strange way of touching a person's life. A year and a half ago, Gophers women's basketball guard Swantreca Taylor was dealt one of those surprises when she learned she was pregnant...

Only a few inches separated the Gophers women's basketball team from a possible victory Friday night at the Sports Pavilion. With the Gophers trailing Michigan 54-53 and 12.2 seconds on the clock, Minnesota...

For a while Sunday at the Sports Pavilion, it looked like the Gophers women's basketball team was capable of upsetting first-place Iowa, halting the Hawkeyes' Big Ten title hopes and snapping their own...

There has always been at least one constant in junior Gophers women's basketball guard Mindy Hansen's life. She had to deal with her parents getting divorced when she was younger, the difficult experience...

In a display reminiscent of the treatment that top blue chip high school sports recruits receive from college coaches, Big Ten women's basketball sports information personnel have blanketed the 22-person...

If the Gophers women's basketball team has proven one thing this season, it is that the squad is capable of losing games in a variety of different fashions. Indiana became the latest team to notch a 'W'...

The 1997-98 Indiana women's basketball media guide describes junior Hoosiers point guard Dani Thrush as an "exciting" and "talented" player who "gets in the middle of every play." This season, however,...

Silver linings have been hard to come by this season for the last-place Gophers women's basketball team, but that's just how the team described its two close weekend losses to conference leading Illinois...

There was a noticeably different atmosphere during the Gophers women's basketball team's post-game interviews after the team's pair of eight-point weekend losses. Instead of wearing their normal tired...

Twenty-one games into the Cheryl Littlejohn era at Minnesota, the performance of the Gophers women's basketball team has been somewhat of a disappointment to the team, the fans and, most of all, to Littlejohn...

Two months after the conclusion of its most successful season to date, the Gophers women's soccer team was rewarded with what coach Sue Montagne calls her best recruiting class ever. On Wednesday, the...

More than 30 years ago, Gophers volleyball coach Mike Hebert and Dennis Berg were teammates on the UC-Santa Barbara men's volleyball team. Back then, Hebert had no idea that he would one day coach Dennis'...

Junior forward Sarah Klun did not play for the Gophers women's basketball team on Friday at Purdue or Sunday at Ohio State because of a coach's decision by Cheryl Littlejohn. While Littlejohn refused...

Just when it seems things can't get any worse for the Gophers women's basketball team, something else happens to top the team's past failures. Over the weekend Minnesota (4-17 overall, 1-10 Big Ten) suffered...

Cheryl Littlejohn still remembers where she was when she received the call. The Gophers women's basketball coach was in her new office only days after taking over the reigns of the team from ex-coach...

Before the start of the season, the women's athletic department touted senior center Angie Iverson as an All-America candidate. And why not? The 21-year-old Owatonna, Minn., native was coming off a season...

Gophers women's basketball coach Cheryl Littlejohn paced the sidelines impatiently during the second half of Minnesota's 67-54 loss to No. 17 Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon at the Sports Pavilion. No matter...

It's been almost a year since the 11th-seeded Gophers women's basketball team upset sixth-seeded Wisconsin, 80-75, in the first round of the Big Ten women's basketball tournament. Both teams have varying...

Sophomore Gophers women's basketball guard Kiauna Burns did not play during Sunday's 84-65 loss at Northwestern for a basketball-related reason coach Cheryl Littlejohn characterized as a "coach's decision." "It's...

After the Gophers women's basketball team's 81-73 upset win at Michigan State on Jan. 11, it looked as if Minnesota and new coach Cheryl Littlejohn were about to turn the corner and erase the memory of...

Ayesha Whitfield, a freshman shooting guard on the Gophers women's basketball team, will have surgery next week after suffering a season-ending knee injury in a Dec. 28 game at Iowa. The meniscus tear...

It took a new starting lineup and contributions from several unlikely sources, but the Gophers women's basketball team finally got its first Big Ten win of the season Sunday afternoon at Michigan State. Before...

Erin Olson has become accustomed to watching basketball games from the sidelines. From her familiar perch in the stands last year and her current spot on the bench this season, the 5-foot-9 sophomore...

During almost every practice earlier this year, Jaime Ellis could be seen pedalling away fervently on an exercise bike and shouting words of encouragement to her teammates from the sidelines. But for...

Maybe it's a sign of the times, a result of new-found independence or just a form of expression. Whatever the causes, the University and its athletic teams have seen an increase in the number of tattoos...

Cardboard boxes and loose stacks of paper decorate new Gophers women's hockey coach Laura Halldorson's office at the Bierman Athletic Complex. A signed picture of Hall-of-Fame hockey player Darryl Sittler,...

The Gophers men's swimming and diving team has signed four new recruits this spring. Minnesota signed two swimmers and two divers to try to help replace departing senior swimmers Matt Schlessman, Mitch...

Junior swimmer Manolis Lentaris has started swimming again following two seasons of turmoil at Minnesota that saw him suffer various injuries, academic troubles and motivational problems. This time, however,...

The Gophers' men's golf team ended their roller-coaster season appropriately over the weekend by failing to advance to the NCAA championships. Minnesota finished 17th out of 21 teams at the NCAA Central...

After the first day of the three-day NCAA Midwest Regional in Norman, Okla. on Thursday, the Gophers were tied with Tulsa for 14th place out of 21 teams with a one-round 297. Texas A&M was first with...

Not only could this weekend's NCAA regionals be the last tournament of the season for the men's golf team, it could also signal the end of senior golfer Mark Halverson's Gophers career. For the last four...

The Gophers women's swimming team announced 13 new signings for next season on Wednesday. Coach Jean Freeman called the new class the best she has ever recruited. The new swimmers come from a broad background,...

Prior to the start of the Big Ten men's golf championships on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, conference officials sent out a mailing, previewing the top teams and individuals in the Big Ten. The conference...

As anticipated, the Gophers men's golf team received an invitation to the NCAA Central Regional on Tuesday. "We've expected to get there all year," Gophers coach John Means said before learning that his...

After finding out that she was denied a chance to be the lone individual competitor not on a team invited to the NCAA East Regionals, Gophers junior golfer Amy Dahle took out her aggression on the Forrest...

Despite recording their lowest three-round total in two months, the No. 20 Gophers men's golf team finished fourth Saturday at the Kent Invitational in Ravenna, Ohio. Minnesota was in second place at...

The women's golf team feels it has nothing to lose at the Big Ten championships, which run today through Sunday in East Lansing, Mich. The team will be playing under considerably less pressure this weekend...

For one of the few times in his 18-year career, Gophers men's golf coach John Means gambled on a recruit last spring. He signed freshman golfer Martin Le Mesurier to a national letter of intent without...

Golf has been a major part of sophomore men's golfer Bill Thompson's life since he was a toddler. He got his first set of golf clubs when he was just 4 years old and grew up playing with current PGA competitor...

Before the start of the Gophers men's golf team's spring campaign, this season figured to be one to remember. But with the conclusion of its spring competitions looming near, Minnesota would like to forget...

The Gophers women's golf team's worst fears were realized this weekend as the team was eliminated from postseason competition in its last regular season meet of the year. Minnesota finished sixth out...

When senior women's golfer Carolyn Klecker came to Minnesota as a freshman five years ago, golf was about the farthest thing from her mind. Klecker initially came to the University for it's aeronautical...

Sophomore men's golfer Bill Thompson soared past several of his more-heralded teammates on his way to an eighth-place tie at the Marshall Invitational Friday and Saturday in Huntington, W.Va. Thompson...