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Ha! That is precisely my goal too: keeping out of the morgue. And to the best of my knowledge, so far I've been successful. Go Gophers! I'm already counting down the days to the home opener against Texas.

Interesting, but your position goes against the latest CDC guidelines. And now, at least according to a Strib article, it appears that Hennepin County is in fact a "high transmission" area, putting us in the category for which the CDC now again recommends masks indoors, even for vaccinated...

Despite the high transmissibiliy of the Delta variant of COVID, the U of M sent an email to students, faculty, and staff, indicating that because none of the U's five campuses are located in high tranmission areas, the U will not be reinstating their mask mandate. As a senior citizen student...

On the online TV schedule site I look at, it shows that ABC will be showing a super-regionals game this Saturday. They will be showing "Oklahoma vs. Washburn." And some people still say the media shows little respect for college softball!

The Big Ten's final stats show how dominant Michigan was, especially in pitching. They led the league in team batting average, ERA, and fielding. Their ERA was 1.10, and the next lowest was the Gophers at 2.05. Their pitchers gave up 45 earned runs; Minnesota gave up 83; and only one other team...

Small consolation, but at least in the D1Softball poll, the one that typically comes out first each week, the three out of four losses to Michigan didn't hurt the Gophers. They remain at #19, with Michigan jumping over them, moving from #21 to #18. https://d1softball.com/category/top-25/

I don't know how it compares with previous years, but the Gophers do take a lot of pitches. They have 145 walks this year. The next highest among Big Ten teams is Nebraska's 106, and those are the only two teams with more than 100. Michigan, the league leader in batting average, has been issued...

On Wednesday, Michigan State gave Michigan a pretty good battle. The game went 9 innings, with Michigan winning 1-0 behind 22 strikeouts by Storako.

I thought I had read in some earlier comment that the Gophers and Wisconsin might try to make up some of those postponed games, with one or two mid-week games, like Michigan and Michgan State did (or are doing). Is there some reason this hasn't been done? I realize no game could be scheduled for...

Gophers lose the first to Iowa 3-1; win the second 5-4. Michigan wins two over Northwestern, 7-2 and 6-3.

Yeah, I thought it was a given that the Gophers would likely have to take three of four from Michigan.

Maybe I'm being too picky, too sensitive, or too politically correct, but I don't think this was the best possible wording from the announcer, especially given that the game was being played in Minneapolis at this time. He said: "Three runs in the 4th, three runs in the 5th, three runs in the...

Never a doubt!

As someone who knows next to nothing about volleyball, watching Samedy makes me feel she could have picked whatever sport she wanted and become an All-American. What a tremendous athlete!

Here's a really nice article about Katie Kemmetmueller. https://d1softball.com/nurse-katie-always-on-call-for-minnesota/

Michella Chester picks her final four -- Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Kentucky, with the Badgers beating the Gophers for the title. (I have no idea how good her picks have been.) https://www.ncaa.com/video/volleyball-women/2021-04-10/2020-21-ncaa-volleyball-bracket-predicted

a Michigan has also rescheduled two of its postponed games with Michigan State, one home and one away.

Here's a strange -- maybe not so strange -- tidbit. In the April 4, 2021, RPI rankings, all 13 SEC teams are ranked higher than the highest ranked Big Ten team (Michigan at #46, with Northwestern at #59 and the Gophers at #68). The SEC teams did get in a non-conference schedule, unlike the Big...

Of course, this year the RPI doesn't have the benefit of non-conference play, but still....

For all of you Stags' fans, Fairfield, #1 last week in the RPI, has unfortunately plummeted down to #18 this week. Sacred Heart (#2 last week) also fell, but only down to #12. The new #1 is Texas, with Army West Point #2, and Towson #3. The Gophs have moved up to #7, but Wisconsin still lags at...