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New Gophers AD says increasing diversity is ‘high on my radar screen’
Sep. 12 | Has the role of today’s big-time college athletic director changed? We recently put that question to Norwood Teague, who was hired in April to succeed Joel Maturi as University of Minnesota athletics director. “It’s multi-faceted,”...
For 30 years now, college football has chased the green
Sep. 5 | Many think it’s time all the workers get their share It went unnoticed, but last week was the 30th anniversary of college football turning into a big green industry. Green as in $$$. From the early 1950s, the NCAA negotiated college football...
Hall of Fame coach took father’s advice, stood up for what’s right
May. 9 | I first met C. Vivian Stringer back in the late 1980s when she was the head coach at Iowa and I was a radio reporter covering the visiting Gophers there. She discussed at length her concerns about Proposition 48, then a new NCAA-passed...
Gopher women on their own this summer
Apr. 18 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer The Gopher women are a couple of weeks removed from their first-ever WBI championship. “There were only three teams that get to win their last game, and we were...
Father-daughter duo might be Gophers hoops first
Jan. 25 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Gopher basketball has previously had parent-sibling combinations on its bench: Former head coach Clem Haskins hired his son Brent as an assistant, and Saul Smith currently is an assistant coach...
Time to dispense with the ‘One Plays’?
Jan. 11 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer The Big Ten for several seasons has assembled 16-game regular-season schedules in which each team has six single-game opponents each year. Minnesota, for example, only plays Indiana, Michigan State,...
Pops would have been proud
Dec. 7 | My father KWAME MCDONALD never let an opportunity slip by when it came to supporting the youth of St. Paul. This past month I did a little traveling to support some former prep stars as they embark on their college careers. Here is a...
Three-point review of Gophers men’s and women’s basketball
Nov. 30 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer A seven-game review of Minnesota women’s basketball at this point of the season yields the following three points: First point: Billed before the season as the missing piece, Rachel Banham...
