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One of the great Washington DC lines of the 1950s: “dull, duller, Dulles…”

Remembering the split second of dread when you don’t see the football followed by the exhilaration when the ball flew through the uprights.

Since we are time-traveling to the days of the American Association the question becomes will the Twins & Saints play day/night doubleheaders on Memorial Day/July 4th/Labor Day?

Remembering Glenn Cardelli’s terrific freshman year in 1979 including intercepting Mark Hermann in the definitive, upset 31-14 win over Purdue.

And if your Cavapoo survives the muskies beware the lurking bald eagles.

Amen! In due course Niko needs to press the case because the AD will not disturb the status quo on his own volition.

It hurts the eyes to see this slate.

Great fun to watch the game—thank you for posting—the mild struggles against the Indiana press were a premonition to the disaster which befell the team in the last three minutes of the Illinois game. Always wonder if the 2002 team had made the NCAA tournament in Monson’s third year (2000...

For the 1994 sweep, we went to the Vikings game and then headed early Friday morning to Madison. Much to our amusement somebody had draped a sign on one of the I-94 overpasses saying: “Go home losers!”

The Sean Hoffman picture was from the 1999 road win at Northwestern—it was Minnesota’s first Big Ten road win (IIRC) since 1994 at Wisconsin.

Butch Levy: all Big Ten & national heavyweight champion; Bob Stein; Doug Kingsriter; Aaron Brown.

The 1940 and 1941 Minnesota-Washington games were among the most consequential intersectional games of the year. Reading Danny Spewak’s book about the 1941game (the season opener with Bierman’s motto:”Washington First!”) a detailed description of the scope of the game and the effort required...

His father Lucius Smith was a legendary attorney who practiced law into his late 90s. As a young man, Lucius was the Rice County Attorney. Lucius was a Gopher football player and the story goes one of his teams lost an excruciating game to Michigan & Lucius vowed he would raise a son who would...

On the opening play of the Iowa game Upchurch scored on an 86 yard run—if memory serves.

Astonishingly, the Twins are 53-73 since the Great Collapse of 2024 despite having a 13 game win streak during this period.

Great to have Oregon in the Big Ten, welcome!—looking forward to a trip to Eugene. I’ll admit I’m ornery about the Bucky Irving poaching…

To quote the Brooklyn newspaper headline after the Dodgers (finally) beat the Yankees in the 1955 World Series: “This Is Next Year!”

Watching Vasquez riding his 1-31 streak deepens the excitement.

Paul Hopewell is married to a former Gopher swimmer.