Behind an improved running game paced by three touchdowns from senior fullback Jon Hoese, the Minnesota football team opened the 2010 season with a 24-17 win over Middle Tennessee State. The Gophers immediately established the running game on Thursday with nine-straight plays on the ground to start the game. After an incomplete pass and a [...]
For the first time, Golden Gopher fans will have one space dedicated to the history and tradition of Gopher Sports. On Friday, September 10, the T. Denny Sanford Athletics Hall of Fame at TCF Bank Stadium opens its doors public with a public open house from 6-8 p.m. The open house will be preceded by [...]
When Minnesota and Middle Tennessee State hit the field at Johnny “Red” Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Thursday night, there will be plenty of attention paid to the quarterback position. For Minnesota, three-time captain Adam Weber will be taking the opening snap of the season for the fourth straight year. He has taken virtually every [...]
Day one of the Minnesota Gophers’ Canadian Tour has reached the final hours. The squad reported to Williams Arena around 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday to tend to packing. The Minnesota traveling party consists of the coaching staff (Tubby Smith, Ron Jirsa, Vince Taylor, Saul Smith), Athletic Trainer Roger Schipper, Director of Operations Joe Esposito, Special [...]
When the 12- to 16-person suite is too large and the club seats aren’t intimate enough, the loge box might be just right. Tom Waggoner and 360 Architecture were on the front edge of developing four-person loge boxes at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, and as colleges turn to the pros for facility ideas, Waggoner sees [...]
The Goal Line Club will host its annual Golden Gopher Kick-Off Luncheon August 25 at the DQ Club Room inside TCF Bank Stadium. The annual Kick-Off Luncheon provides St. Paul Chamber of Commerce members, Goal Line Club members, season ticket holders and other members of the community an opportunity to hear head coach Tim Brewster’s [...]
The University of Minnesota Athletic Department and its Digital Media Partner, NeuLion, Inc., have unveiled the new Gophersports.com just in time for the 2010-11 season. The new site offers improved and easier navigation to help fans find their favorite teams and areas of interest quickly. The interactive links at the top of every page give visitors [...]
For the fourth straight year, Dave Revsine, Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith will travel nearly 3,000 miles during a 15-day stretch to bring fans an hour-long, on-site preview show from every Big Ten campus on the Big Ten Football Preview Tour. The Big Ten Network trio will roll into Minneapolis Saturday. [Read More]
The Miami-Dade State’s Attorney’s Office announced today that Trevor Mbakwe has agreed to an offer to take part in a pre-trial intervention program and that the pending case against him will not proceed to trial. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said that enrollment in the program “is not an admission of guilt nor is it [...]
During his media session today at the 2010 Big Ten Kickoff, head football coach Tim Brewster talked at length about the internal competition for playing time in the program on the eve of fall camp and just how important it is to the success of the program. Now in his fourth year at Minnesota, Brewster [...]
