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Alabama Huntsville reverses course, will keep hockey
A grassroots fundraising campaign raised $750,000, enabling the Chargers to continue playing for the 2020-21 season. More work needs to be done for the program to have a longer-term future.
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MIAC overhaul: Mac back in football; St. Scholastica joining league
A year after forcing out one of the league's founding members, the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is bringing back an old friend to play football and adding a newcomer to join for all sports
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Scoggins: Hope for college football, but there's still much to navigate
College athletes will start returning to campus for workouts in two weeks and universities increasingly have pledged to resume in-person classes this fall.
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Reusse: Faith, not Minnesota ties, brought Denard Span, Anne Schleper together
The former Twins outfielder was hoping to play in majors this season; instead he has been spending quality family time with his wife, a former Gophers hockey standout.
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'Uncharted territory.' Minnesota football forecast cloudy for more than Gophers
The pandemic has this state's Division II and III programs scrambling for answers, just like the Gophers.
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St. Thomas still viewing move to Division I as best strategy
The pandemic has not yet created any barriers to St. Thomas's ambitions, but the school's athletic director said said the plan "is not without our challenges from a financial standpoint."
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Alabama Huntsville eliminating its men's hockey program immediately
Financial issues brought on by the coronavirus pandemic prompted the school to drop the Division I sport, plus two others. That leaves the WCHA with nine teams for the 2020-21 season.
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NCAA approves voluntary return to campus for activities but U may lag
A university PR director said in a statement any plan to return to campus "would consider the latest guidance and data available to mitigate risks and provide a safe and healthy environment."
Local
They were Minnesota athletes. Now they're on teams fighting COVID-19
These former college athletes sometimes look back to lessons they learned through sports. The one most often mentioned is teamwork.
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Williamson asked if parents received gifts for him to attend Duke
When Zion Williamson backed out of the agreement with Prime Sports in May to signing with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), agent Gina Ford claimed he owed her $100 million for breaking the contract. Williamson was drafted No. 1 overall by the New Orleans Pelicans in 2019.
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Reusse: New coach Lamker says Augsburg football is 'going to change'
Derrin Lamker, the former high school coach at Edina and Osseo, led Augsburg to a MIAC title in 1997. But the Auggies of 2018 and 2019 were 4-16 overall and 1-15 in the MIAC. Now he's head coach at his alma mater.
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Scoggins: Mental health cornerstone of Big Ten leader Warren's agenda
Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren took an important step in accomplishing that objective leaguewide by unveiling a new initiative in conjunction with Mental Health Awareness Month.
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Home run cycle: St. Olaf star's feat has never be done in the majors
Brian Sprout, now the baseball coach at East Ridge High School, hit his four home runs -- solo, two-run and three-run shots, plus a grand slam -- in an MIAC game 18 years ago.
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Scoggins: College athletes should get paid for use of their name, image or likeness
Allowing athletes to benefit from their names and images in a way that can be monitored by compliance offices will not ruin college sports.
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Pitino's latest Gophers recruit — Rice transfer Peterson — changes his mind
The Gophers men's basketball team's newest recruit, Rice transfer Drew Peterson, announced Friday he was reopening his recruitment after committing to Richard Pitino earlier in the week.
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Good hockey news: Long Island U plans to go Division I next season
The coronavirus pandemic has cast a cloud over the college sports world. Then came Thursday, when LIU revealed that it's adding Division I men's hockey.
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Souhan: Building Gophers through transfers has merit for Pitino
While not getting the state's best high school players, Richard Pitino could be devising a strategy that could allow the Gophers to compete with better Big Ten programs.
Duluth
UMD assistant coach Herter leaving to pursue new hockey opportunities
The associate head coach under Scott Sandelin was part of the Bulldogs' back-to-back NCAA championship teams. He has head coaching and general manager experience in the USHL.
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Scoggins: Current college football ideas make no sense at all
Games in empty venues without fans might represent the first step for some sports. But that model doesn't work for college football for some very simple reasons.
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N. Carolina-bound Walton didn't feel buzz about delayed college choice
Over the weekend, Kerwin Walton's name was popping up all over social media as he was trying to decide where to play college basketball. "I wasn't paying too much attention," he said with a chuckle.
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- Hunter Dickinson announces his return to KU; UCLA signs Tyler Bilodeau from portal
- Oregon State and Washington State face player exodus amid realignment
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