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A letter to the editor I sent to the Minnesota Daily: When I click on "Sports" on the Daily's website, these are the articles that come up on page 1: Gophers football annihilates Aggies 38-0 in season-opener Twin Cities Pro Am embodies Minnesota's basketball culture Fresh faces for...

I don't know exactly when Naya Gros entered the match as a sub for Carter Booth, but she clearly was the spark the team needed.

Service aces vs. service errors: Texas - 8 and 8, for a net of 0; Gophers 6 and 19 for a net of -13. And in total points, Texas won by 12. This isn't the whole story, of course, because serving aggressively can be advantageous in ways other than aces, but this differential clearly was an...

People with far more volleyball knowledge than me were saying after the spring scrimmages that Carter Booth needed lots of work, some suggesting that maybe she should be red-shirted. It's always dangerous to make conclusions from just two opening-season matches, but she seems to be a...

Correction: Gophers play Florida on Sunday, Sept. 4, at home.

Playing without the younger Wucherer, the Gophs racked up a solid, impressive win.

For newcomers to volleyball like me, in these intra-squad matches, it's hard to tell if it's great offense or not-so-great defense (or vice versa). I don't remember any eye-opening digs, and I think there were only two extended points, both in the third set. As usual, team make-ups changed with...

From the notes in that article: "The Gophers are scheduled to host an open scrimmage at Maturi Pavilion on Saturday, Aug. 20 at 3:15 p.m. CT. Admission is free."

Wouldn't it be ironic and wonderful and sad all at the same time if the Gophers win it all the year after Stephanie Samedy completed her Gopher career?

Interesting. The Ncaa.com site also came out with its preseaon Power 10 rankings. They have Nebraska at #1, Wisconsin #4, Ohio State #5, and the Gophers #7...

The Big Ten schedule couldn't be much tougher. With seven matches against the four teams that finished above the Gophers in 2021 (Wisconsin, Nebraska, Ohio State, and Purdue), five matches against the other three teams that made the NCAAs (Illinois, Michigan, and Penn State), and finishing with...

Uh, are you sure you were reading Hrothgar right? I took H's comments seem to be questioning this claim, without further evidence and specifics.

I'm assuming when you wrote in point C, "In the NCAA," you meant in the Big Ten tournament. If so, in that game against the Gophers, Schwartz threw 98 pitches to 25 batters, or 3.92 pitches per batter. In the Michigan game that followed the Gopher sweep of Wisconsin, Schwartz threw 112 pitches...

I don't buy this. I must be much less psychic, or maybe less able to read social cues, than you. I have no idea that "they had no desire to be there and compete." I saw the Gophers hit several balls on the nose that Wisconsin made spectacular fielding plays on. I'd say the Gophers hit as many...

It was kind of neat when the Big Ten Network showed the teams' combined runs, hits, and errors over the first two games in the series: Minnesota 16-19-1, and Northwestern 0-6-3.

Who IS this team?! Yesterday I asked what kind of odds do you think I could have gotten on the Gophs run-ruling Northwestern. To do it two times in a row, though? The odds would have been astronomical! There isn't going to be a more dangerous 3-seed (4-seed?) in any of the NCAA tournament's...

Lots of comments here about whether the Gophers' issues this year were hitting or pitching. (Obviously, both are important.) Some have also commented that this year's team is relying on the long ball too much and therefore striking out more. But a statistics comparison to last year, when the...

Regarding yesterday's game, I think it's also worth noting that the Gophers are in the middle of finals right now, while Northwestern is on a quarter system so finals won't be until early June.

What kind of odds do you think I could have gotten before the game on the Gophers run-ruling Northwestern? Wow! The Gophers were impressive in every facet of the game.

I went to the Pav scrimmage. It's probably way too early to tell anything, but it was kind of surprising that when the Gopher reserves played most of one set, St. Thomas was very competititve -- almost played the Gophers even.