Gophers
1989 NCAA hockey title was snatched away from Skarda, Gophers
This week in Minnesota sports: In front of 15,861 fans at the St. Paul Civic Center, Harvard beat Randy Skarda's Gophers 4-3 in overtime of the 1989 NCAA hockey national title game.
Gophers
Whiteboard, weights, wireless: Gophers QB Morgan has structure in shutdown
When the coronavirus forced all sports to cease in early March, after only a week of spring football practices, Tanner Morgan and his family adjusted on the fly to keep the All-Big Ten second-team quarterback ready.
Local
Twins offer financial help to staff hurt by virus-canceled games
There are roughly 800-900 workers at Target Field not employed by the Twins. For them, the Target Field Employee Assistance Fund is being set up, and the team is making a "significant" (unspecified) contribution.
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Gophers' softball ace Fiser makes it official: She's coming back
Fiser, whose 31-9 season with a 1.27 ERA and 346 strikeouts helped the Gophers to the Women's College World Series last year, had her senior season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic.
Sports
Canterbury Park announces furloughs of 850 employees
Canterbury Park announced Wednesday that about 850 employees will be idled because the race track and casino have been shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vikings
Will the Vikings pick a QB in first three rounds of NFL Draft?
After a horrendous month of March, we can at least start to try to think about warmer weather, better times ahead and actual things on the sports calendar.
Gophers
Added options create more uncertainty than ever for U's NBA draft hopefuls
Daniel Oturu and Amir Coffey, who went undrafted last year, might not have left college early five years ago. And Marcus Carr wouldn't have considered declaring for the draft. But things are different now.
Gophers
Four-star Hopkins guard Walton has Gophers among six finalists
The 6-foot-5 senior sharpshooter doesn't have a date for his announcement yet, but the spring signing period runs from April 15 to May 20.
Vikings
Souhan: Missing sports clichés, the comfort food of English language
There's an "i" in cliché, but this is all about team, and columnist Jim Souhan is a team-first guy, but it's a business and he's got to be able to feed his family.
Vikings
Even without live sports, Jared Allen plans to dodge NFL draft
The NFL isn't doing anything wrong by conducting its business at a safe distance in our current low-speed world. Nor is it behaving admirably as some sort of heroic distraction.
Sports
Hopkins star Nnaji trying NBA draft after one year at Arizona
Zeke Nnaji was named Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and was a first-team All-Pac-12 selection after averaging 16 points per game.
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