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Gopher Basketball A Decade´s Look at the Best and the Busts of the Big Ten Taking a look at the Big Ten over the last ten years, you can see some prime examples of how recruiting can lead to great things and how it also doesn’t guarantee success. Here are the numbers of Top 100 […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball How do our recruits compare? Over the next two years, the Golden Gophers will be welcoming five players onto their roster who are consensus Top 100 recruits for their respective classes in Devoe Joseph, Trevor Mbawke, Ralph Sampson III, Royce White, and Rodney Williams. I thought it would be interesting to compare these […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball Do you hear it yet? I don´t think we can call it a buzz just yet, but it´s definitely a murmur, primarily among the Gopher cognoscenti. The buzz should arrive sometime in December and pick up as the Gophers step into Big Ten play. And while Gopher fans are marveling at the talent […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball Gopher fans got their first peek at the 2008-09 Golden Gophers basketball team at Tubby’s Tipoff tonight at Williams Arena. The event included a 3-point shooting contest, dunk contest and an intra-squad scrimmage. Flip Saunders, Marc Madsen and Kevin Love were a few of the notable attendees. Overall it looks like this Gopher […] READ MORE
Gopher Football With how many good teams there are in the Big 12 and SEC, there are certain to a number of very exciting games in the coming weeks. This past weekend things got off to a good start with great games between Texas & Oklahoma, and Missouri & Oklahoma State. After those two games, […] READ MORE
Gopher Football With only three Minnesota Gopher football games remaining in the Metrodome, Gopher fans are counting down the days until September 12, 2009 when TCF Bank Stadium opens. As you drive by the stadium site, you can’t help but marvel at the rapid progress that has been made over the course of this year. […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball As the calendar turns to October, I´m experiencing a strange phenomenon here in the southern hemisphere, as spring is rapidly approaching. Next week in fact I will be on spring vacation and I´m not going to ask my wife if I can take some time out to write the weekly column, so this […] READ MORE
Gopher Football Big Ten update There were three very telling games in the Big Ten today. ““ Minnesota at Ohio State: As Gopher fans, we now realize that even though we may be improved from last year, we still have a long ways to go. A win against Indiana looks like a good possibility next […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball Hello again everyone,And thank you for the kind comments from last week´s initial installment of This, That, and the Other. This week I go into the archives for the 1981 Minnesota-Ohio State contest, take a look at the acclaim MBIII is garnering, post a couple interviews with rival Big Ten basketball coaches, and […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball Greetings and salutations, Gopher Fans! Veterans of the Hole may recall my previous weekly column, The Sunday Night Ramble, which was put on an indefinite hiatus last winter due to wedding planning and an impending move to Peru. Well, I am now married and in Peru and looking to contribute to the Gopher […] READ MORE