Since beginning his coaching career 20 years ago, Mike Hebert has become as identifiable with Big Ten volleyball as Superman is with Metropolis. Hebert, who was hired as the Gophers' head volleyball coach...

Late last year, the men's athletics department extended Jim Wacker's contract through the 1998 season, believing the Gophers football coach was doing everything right except winning. Wacker's behavioral...

Clem Haskins has experienced enormous success throughout his playing and coaching career in basketball. As the Gophers head coach, Haskins elevated Minnesota from the Big Ten cellar to the NCAA men's...

When Minnesota Twins infielder Brian Raabe played for the Gophers back in the late 1980s, he earned the starting second baseman's job as a freshman. Things are a little bit different these days for the...

The Gophers' Jason Schlueter, Paul Michalek and Vesa Rantanen learned this weekend that they qualified for the NCAA men's track and field outdoor championships. The NCAA notified the qualifying athletes...

He was a freshman playing for the Gophers baseball team, and J.T. Bruett had barely turned 18 years old. To top things off, he was the team's starting center fielder. Minnesota coach John Anderson doesn't...

The Gophers men's track team sent a message to its conference foes Sunday at Penn State when it earned its highest finish in the Big Ten outdoor championships since Lyndon Johnson was president. Minnesota...

Field events were a main reason Gophers track coach Phil Lundin believed his team could contend for this year's Big Ten outdoor championship title. Junior discus thrower Jason Schlueter and freshman pole...

Gophers freshman Ben Jensen was supposed to be this year's star at the Big Ten outdoor championships. Instead the school record holder in the decathlon and automatic NCAA qualifier will sit out another...

"Beat Boon." That was Paul Michalek's goal heading into the 1992 state high school track and field meet as a senior at Bloomington Kennedy. The person Michalek was hoping to beat was Jason Boon, a senior...

Track and field standout Ben Jensen, one of only two NCAA automatic qualifiers for the Gophers this year, had his appendix removed Monday night and will likely miss the rest of the season. Jensen said...

When the University named Steve Plasencia as its head cross country coach two weeks ago, the hiring seemed to represent a recent trend in the Big Ten. Unlike in revenue sports throughout the conference,...

Gophers senior runner Paul Michalek is the first to admit that computers are only as good as the people who use them. At the Jesse Owens track and field meet Sunday at Ohio State, the automated timing...

For Gophers senior heavyweight Billy Pierce, it all started in a small, dirty wrestling gym at Minneapolis Roosevelt High School. The practice mat wasn't even regulation size. But that didn't matter to...

At the beginning of the wrestling season, Gophers coach J Robinson strongly believed his young team could claim fame at the NCAA tournament, in March at Target Center. Then the team lost juniors Brandon...