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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Star Tribune has reported that Minnesota Gophers starting point guard Al Nolen has been ruled academically ineligible on Tuesday. Nolen is appealing his status, according to a...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Durrell Summers has the potential to be Michigan State's best player. When the seventh-ranked Spartans needed him most against Minnesota, he delivered. Summers scored all...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Danny Kristo says that if anybody can get under the skin of Minnesota star forward Jordan Schroeder this weekend, it will be him. After all, there...

Nikki Swenson, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, and her women's cross country teammates will host the 24th Annual Roy Griak Invitational Saturday at Les Bolstad Golf Course. Swenson,...

MINNEAPOLIS -- After starting every game last season for the Minnesota Gophers and catching 31 passes, former BOLD standout Ben Kuznia was looking forward to his senior year. Not only...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Having already received several postseason honors, Minnesota junior forward Ryan Stoa capped the 2008-09 season with one of the nation's most prestigious individual honors, collecting first-team All-America...

Melissa Varpness of Montevideo will join two other former area track stars at the University of Minnesota in the fall. Varpness, a Class A state champion in the 800 last...

Former area track and field standouts Nikki Swenson of Dawson-Boyd and Natalie Devine of Litchfield have had stellar indoor track seasons with the Minnesota Gophers and helped the team capture...

Heidi Carls, a redshirt junior from Villard, is a starting outfielder for the Minnesota Gophers softball team. Carls, who was a three-time All-Area selection for Minnewaska Area, is batting .232...