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Former St. Thomas football player receives year workhouse sentence for dorm room rape
Defendant to serve one year at Ramsey County workhouse, 30 years probation.
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Gophers point guard Powell to miss Sunday's game vs. Maryland
Jasmine Powell is back at her home in Detroit to attend the funeral of her grandmother. Powell leads the team in assists (5.7) and is second in scoring (13.5) and rebounds (4.7) for the 8-7 Gophers.
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Gophers to get top bench scorer Sean Sutherlin back healthy against Indiana
Pregame: Senior Sean Sutherlin, who averages eight points, missed the second half of Illini game with ankle injury.
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Gophers men's hockey rallies to sweep Michigan State
Trailing 3-1, the Gophers scored the last five goals to pull away.
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Gophers women's hockey routs St. Thomas 8-0
Abigail Noreen and Savannah Norcross each scored two goals for the No. 5 Gophers.
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Gophers women's hockey routs St. Thomas 8-0
Abigail Noreen and Savannah Norcross each scored two goals for the No. 5 Gophers.
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Gophers coach Lindsay Whalen to miss Maryland game, eyeing Tuesday return
Whalen, who had an emergency appendectomy last Tuesday, plans to return to the team in time for Wednesday's game against Wisconsin.
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Gophers face gantlet of talented big men with a depleted frontcourt
The Gophers were overpowered by Illinois' Kofi Cockburn, and up next is Indiana's Trayce Jackson-Davis on Sunday.
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Gophers-Indiana men's basketball game preview
The Gophers look to bounce back from their second loss this season Sunday on the road against Indiana.
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Steveson gets standing ovation but Gophers wrestlers lose big at Iowa
Top-ranked Gable Steveson beat No. 5 Tony Cassioppi 17-7 for Minnesota's highlight in a 22-10 road loss to No. 1 Iowa
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Meyers' three points spark Gophers men's hockey over Michigan State
Ben Meyers scored two goals and added an assist as the No. 9 Gophers men's hockey team beat Michigan State 4-1 on Friday night in East Lansing
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Reusse: Once far removed, U's Ramberg is undersized, unlikely contributor for Gophers
Will Ramberg came to the Gophers men's basketball team by way of Cook County High School and McGill University in Montreal.
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Power Poll: Shakeup in Big Ten pecking order after Michigan State's rise, Purdue's slide
Marcus Fuller returns with his first Big Ten men's hoops power poll for 2022. Michigan State, Illinois, and Wisconsin are rising fast.
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Gophers co-defensive coordinator Harasymiak leaving for Rutgers
The New Jersey native has coached Minnesota's defensive backs and safeties the past three years. He will be defensive coordinator for the Scarlet Knights.
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Former Gophers coach Brenda Frese keeps delivering big for Maryland
The Iowa native, who has guided the Terps to the Women's Final Four three times, is aiming for a fourth in Minneapolis.
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Cheap hit knocks out Kirill Kaprizov; Gophers hoops with Marcus Fuller
The Wild got a much-needed win over Pittsburgh but it came with great cost. Plus, Marcus Fuller joins to talk Gophers hoops and Mark Craig shares his NFL picks.
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Gophers women's basketball fends off Rutgers for first Big Ten win
The Gophers won with head coach Lindsay Whalen back home in Minnesota recovering from having her appendix removed earlier in the week.
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Gophers men's hockey opens second half vs. improved Michigan State
The No. 9 Gophers are looking to win more consistently after splitting their past five series. Michigan State is 7-3 in its past 10 games.
Colleges
Minnesota's Brown brothers fit great on opposite ends of D-I hoops
Basketball Across Minnesota: Kendall Brown is a freshman star for No. 1 Baylor. His older brother, Courtney, is redshirting at St. Thomas, new to Division I.
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Gophers' Whalen has emergency surgery, will miss Rutgers game
Associate head coach Carly Thibault-DuDonis will coach the team against the Scarlet Knights on Thursday as Lindsay Whalen recovers from appendectomy.
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Around the Region
- Settlement could cost NCAA nearly $3 billion; plan to pay athletes would need federal protection
- Georgia's Kirby Smart becomes the nation's highest-paid college football coach at $13m annually
- Paying college football players could reverse trend of bowl game opt-outs, boost non-CFP postseason
- Wisconsin tries to regain supremacy in the trenches under its 4th O-line coach in as many years
- Organizers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols
- Say hello (again) to EA Sports College Football. The beloved video-game behemoth is back
- New Big 12 out to prove bigger bank accounts don't always mean better football teams in 12-team CFP
- UConn, Kentucky among those with big changes through transfers in college basketball's portal window
- National 3-point shooting leader Koby Brea becomes the 5th transfer this week to land at Kentucky
- UNC's RJ Davis is returning to school for a 5th season. He was an AP 1st-team All-American last year
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- Gophers football: Seven transfers with big impact potential
- Tough question for Gophers donors: Give to the U or to the athletes?
- U's Christie enters transfer portal after previously declaring for draft
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