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YAY HOOPS: Penn State vs. Minnesota Live Game Thread
It's Penn State! It's Minnesota! It's two Big Ten bottom-feeders whose lone conference wins have been of the WTF variety! PSU of course, had their 20-point shellacking of Purdue the other week, while Minnesota is coming fresh off a narrow upset at Indiana. By the end of today, one of these teams...
Big Ten Divisions Announced
Division I: Division 2: Illinois Northwestern Indiana ...
New National Champion for 1984?
I was reading through another blog Addicted to Quack and the post I read was called If You Can't Win Championships, Just Invent Them. This is refering to the University of Washignton who after 47 years rose a 1960 National Championship banner for football, the problem with that was Minnesota was...
Is Minny close to losing some nicknames?
People tend to mock what they do not understand, and no place in the sporting world is this more true than right here in the land of 10,000 lakes. And with no team is this more true than with my beloved Gopher football team. To the average sports fan in Minneapolis, Gopher football doesn't...
Eric Decker in the 2009 Offseason: Breakout
As it turns out Minnesota isn't exactly a mecca for wide receivers. Just like it'd be crazy to crank the windows down on Highway 55 in Minneapolis in January, the Golden Gophers coaching staff has historically kept the playbook inside the slot -- recruiting and developing star running backs and...
Beers of the Big 10
Because of the religious and conservative lifestyle I maintained for a period of my life, I didn't have my first drink until age 22. It was a watered down Jack and Coke. Sad, I know. My beer drinking at Miami (OH) began about 1 month later, when my ex-girlfriend introduced me to Natural Light....
There's good news, and bad news. What do you want to hear first? Cont.
Last week, we began the heavy crawl out of the gray slush, and ice avalanche of public perception that's weighing on the conference with an early look at what each team has going for it heading into 2009-10. Let's finish the breakdown: Minnesota Golden Gophers The Good News: Laughing all the...
There's good news, and bad news. What do you want to hear first?
I read somewhere that there's seven stages of grief: 1. Shock and denial, 2. Pain and guilt, 3. Anger and bargaining, 4. Depression, reflection, loneliness, 5. The upward turn, 6. Reconstruction and working through, and 7. Acceptance and hope. In our continuing attempts to rid ourselves of stages...
Big 10 Players in the NFL Draft: Wide Receivers, Tight Ends
In both 2007 and 2008, seven Big 10 receivers and tight ends were taken each year. Some were NFL ready (Ted Ginn Jr., James Hardy). Some were destined for the practice squad. In 2009, draft prognosticators again have much faith in the NFL potential of this years Big 10 crop of receivers and tight...
The Rivalry Travels: Insight Bowl (Phoenix, AZ) - Where's the Beer??!!
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