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Video: Minnesota Gophers Locker Room Has Insane Flashing Block “M” On Ceiling In TCF Bank Stadium
Let’s face it — there is some absurd spending that goes on in college athletics. Yesterday, we outlined the waterfall that Alabama is installing in its locker room. Today, we have found yet another crazy example of frivolous spending in college football.
The Minnesota Gophers play their football in TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, and apparently the home locker room is all swagged...
Gophers football gets commit from 4-star center
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Gophers football team landed a prized recruit Monday, as center Connor Mayes of Texas committed to play for Minnesota.
Scout.com ranks Mayes as a four-star recruit and the top center in the Class of 2014. The 6-foot-5, 335-pound Mayes will be a senior at Van Alstyne (Texas) High School this fall.
Considering the offers Mayes had accumulated from top-tier schools...
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Minnesota Football Preview: Schedule Breakdown
It’s the final day of our Minnesota Preview week! Today we will be breaking down the Gopher’s schedule. We ranked the toughest non-conference schedule and B1G schedules earlier this week and Minnesota was given the easiest or 12th ranked non-conference schedule and the 4th hardest B1G schedule. I will be breaking down their schedule into three categories: Winnable...
Minnesota Football Preview: It's Kirkwood's time to shine for Gophers offense
Over the past few seasons you can easily argue the offense at Minnesota has nearly been a one man gang in MarQueis Gray, those results weren't exactly good and as we enter 2013 the focus of this team appears to be shifting with Gray gone and a renewed emphasis on what this roster's strength is - POWER.
In order for this team to get over the .500 hump it'...
Minnesota Football Preview: Hageman anchors defense looking to find more playmakers in 2013
Say this name with me.... Ra'Shede Hageman. Commit it to memory, because if you weren't paying attention to him after 2012 you sure will be by the time Big Ten play roles around in 2013. He didn't rank just outside our top ten in our Preseason Top 25 Players list for nothing.
However, as we head into the 2013 season one has to also be careful to realize that...
Minnesota Football Preview: Kill brings Gophers back to fringe bowl team status
Just how far had the Gophers fallen in the past four years? Well, those in Dinkytown were celebrating this team getting back to its status as of late - that of a fringe bowl team - as they went 6-6 in just his second year at at the helm of the program. Some in Gopherland weren't too sold on Kill coming into last season and Kill's performance overall helped some convert...
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Bielema, Brewster clash on Twitter
Bret Bielema and Tim Brewster continued their long history of having a tense relationship when Bielema sent a tweet at the FSU coach.
Shave and a haircut: Gophers videobomb coach
Long gone are the days where men regularly waltzed into the localbarber to get a close shave and look good for the day or week ahead. That isunless you are part of the University of Minnesota baseball team.While long-time head coach John Anderson was conducting an in-game interviewfrom the dugout, a few of his players decided there was no better time to get aclean cut than during...
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Minnesota football poster brags about seven national championships
The Minnesota football program was once a dominant force in college football, but they have been long removed from their glory days. Michigan and Ohio State have long since emerged as the dominant programs in the Big Ten, separated from the likes of Iowa, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Minnesota along the way and keeping newer members like Penn State and Nebraska at arm’s length...
Bret Bielema has fully accepted his role as an SEC head coach by mocking Florida State coach Tim Brewster
After E. Gordon Gee’s ridiculous statements about Notre Dame and the SEC, people were quite fired up around the South. New…read that again….NEW Florida State TE coach Tim Brewster, formerly Minnesota’s head coach, tweeted the following message: Just so the SEC knows and I been there, Fla St will play any of y’all anywhere, anyplace anytime!! #NoleNation #LetsRide! — Tim...
Lynx hungry after WNBA finals loss
Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve would find herself walking through the aisles at her grocery store this offseason when she would be recognized by a fan.
The ensuing conversation would occasionally catch her off guard. Often times instead of congratulations being extended for leading her team to a second straight WNBA finals, the most common question she got was, ''What...
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Mason: Pitino doing things his way in Minnesota
The first-year Gophers men's basketball coach has already made an impression on campus before coaching a single game at Williams Arena. The 30-year-old Pitino took over the University of Minnesota program after Tubby Smith was ousted following a six-year tenure with the Gophers. In stepped Pitino after just one year of head coaching experience at the helm at Florida International...
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Hollins invited to try out for University Games team
MINNEAPOLIS Gophers point guard Andre Hollins has been invited to try out for the World University Games this summer according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
New Minnesota head coach Richard Pitino made the announcement on Friday during a stop in New Ulm for the Gophers' caravan tour. Hollins will take part in training camp from June 24-July 1 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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May 17, 2013
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Minnesota grants Coleman release after deciding to transfer
MINNEAPOLIS Joe Coleman's time as a Minnesota Golden Gopher is over. The school announced Wednesday that Coleman has been granted his release from the program.
"We wish him the very best in the future," new head coach Richard Pitino said in a statement. "We appreciate the contributions he has given the program the last two years."
As a sophomore last year...
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May 15, 2013
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Pitino brings FIU recruit McNeil to Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS Richard Pitino has landed his first recruit at Minnesota.
Senior Daquein McNeil, a three-star shooting guard from Vermont Academy, has committed to play for Pitino and the Gophers next season, McNeil's high school coach confirmed. McNeil was originally committed to play for Pitino at Florida International University but will now follow the 30-year-old coach to Minnesota...
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April 17, 2013
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