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Joe Christensen covered Major League Baseball for 15 years, including three seasons at the Baltimore Sun and eight at the Star Tribune, before switching to the college football beat. He’s a Faribault, Minn., native who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1996. He covered Jim Wacker’s Gophers for the Minnesota Daily and also wrote about USC, UCLA and the Rose Bowl for the Riverside Press-Enterprise before getting this chance to cover football again.
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Blake Friesen, high school teammate of Philip Nelson, will try to walk on with U in 2013
Posted by: Michael Rand under Gophers recruiting Updated: June 29, 2012 - 11:51 AM
One of Philip Nelson's favorite high school targets is changing his route.
Blake Friesen, who originally was set to walk-on with MSU-Mankato, has instead opted to attend the U of M. He intends to enroll in January and go through spring practice in 2013 in hopes of walking on with the Gophers, it was confirmed Friday.
Friesen caught 63 passes for 1,181 yards and 21 TDs last season at Mankato West, playing with Nelson, the highly touted incoming Gophers freshman.
“We’ve played together since we were in fifth grade,” Friesen told the Mankato Free-Press. “He knows how to get me the football, and we were a very good combination. Hopefully, we can carry that over to college.”
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