Recent content from Chip Scoggins
Scoggins: A Grimm look at broadcasting sports 300 miles from the action
Gophers men's basketball voice Mike Grimm has four camera angles on his monitor when calling road games, and hopes one is clear enough to show who has the ball.
Minnesota teams pledged $40M for justice. Where is it going?
George Floyd's death spurred aggressive commitments of financial support and team involvement. Recipients sense a new desire from owners and athletes to create genuine relationships that go deeper than in the past.
Scoggins: It's time College Football Playoff expands to eight-team field
Reruns are for sitcoms, not sports. Now after Alabama has yet another national title, let's freshen up the field and invite more than the same small set of power schools each year.
Scoggins: Wild's changes met with excitement, not trepidation
Bill Guerin's roster makeover rings of a major shift from business-as-usual for the organization.
Scoggins: Zimmer's legacy as Vikings coach hinges on this offseason
The Wilfs should start by issuing an edict to their coach and GM Rick Spielman: Missing the playoffs again next season won't be acceptable.
Scoggins: Towns needs to lead Wolves' defensive revival
Karl-Anthony Towns, so skilled and important, needs to stop being awful on defense for the team to have a chance at being successful.
Scoggins: After all those mistakes, Gophers suffer well-deserved loss in Madison
Even when the Badgers seemed intent on gift-wrapping the Axe to the Gophers with one of the most bizarre play-calls you'll ever see, Minnesota did nothing with it. This was a game of failed execution.
Scoggins: In this border battle, former Gophers player backs the Badgers
It took some getting used to but former Gophers football player Ron Mertz has all his support behind son Graham, the starting quarterback at Wisconsin.
Scoggins: Giving Gophers football special treatment right call, even if it looks unfair
Other Gophers head coaches heard "No" on extra scholarship spending this year. P.J. Fleck will hear "Yes." That decision is necessary if the university wants to keep pace with other schools.
Scoggins: Gophers' Morgan shows passing skill that Huskers' Martinez lacks
The Gophers asked their QB to throw when necessary. The Huskers avoided that option.
Scoggins: College football taking on pandemic, in retrospect, worthy of a few cheers
Everyone is making sacrifices right now. College athletes included.
Scoggins: Final act will define this strangest of Vikings seasons
With a record of 6-6, things feel like ... what, exactly? Not a lost cause but not raging optimism as the Vikings prepare for the final four games of the regular season.
Scoggins: Vikings should target passes to Jefferson more, more, more
However many times rookie receiver Justin Jefferson gets targeted each game — that number was 12 on Sunday vs. Jacksonville — it's probably not enough.
True colors: A changed Austin unites around its school's red-and-white
The schools have more minority students enrolled than white students, with 48 languages spoken in its classrooms. Through the changes, two colors have united the town: The red and white of the Austin Packers.
