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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This annual battle for border supremacy between the Athletic Departments at the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin enters its sixth year of existence. The two institutions made an adjustment to the scoring system prior to the 2005-06 season by awarding points to the school which finishes higher at the Big Ten championship in [...]
Golden Gophers posted a perfect 4.0 grade-point average for the 2009-10 academic year, pacing the 46 University of Minnesota student-athletes to receive the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award. Gophers who garnered 4.0’s for the year were All-America swimmer Kaylee Jamison, Addison Demer (men’s track), Mike Torchia (men’s track), Ben Kuznia (football), Katie Ohm (women’s basketball) [...]
Buoyed by a strong close to the winter sports season, Minnesota moved up two places to rank fifth in the final winter Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Standings released April 29th with 681.75 points. The Gophers totaled 487.75 points during winter-sports season, the third-best total in the country, after placing third in women’s ice hockey, seventh [...]
The University of Minnesota football team wrapped up its spring practice season on Saturday afternoon at TCF Bank Stadium, with the defense taking advantage of a modified scoring system to outscore the offense 49-26 in the annual spring game. The offense started out quick, scoring on a one-yard run by DeLeon Eskridge on the first [...]
