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NEWS: Minnesota Aurora FC will submit expansion bid to join National Women's Soccer League by Friday, the
@PioneerPress
has learned.
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News: It’s been leaking for days and teased by
#MLS
itself, but the All-Star Skills Challenge at Allianz Field on Tuesday will have a return of GOALIE WARS, per Susannah Collins on
@Extratime
live in St. Paul on Sunday.
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Update:
#Gophers
legend Casey O’Brien shared Monday that he is now one-year cancer free. “Thankful for all those who continue to support and pray for me,” he wrote on Instagram. “God is good.”
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SNUBBED.
#Gophers
Mo Ibrahim was left off Doak Walker Award finalists list for best running back in the nation despite being second in nation in yards per game (145) and touchdowns (19) — more than finalists Chase Brown (Illinois), Blake Corum (Michigan), Bijan Robinson (Texas).
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The
#Gophers
football team invited the U's marching band into their indoor practice facility before last Saturday's homecoming game, and then PJ and Heather Fleck treated them to pizza. The band also received around 120 hand-written thank-you notes from Minnesota players.
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#Gophers
placeholder Casey O’Brien revealed before Friday’s hospital visit in Tampa that he’s now a FIVE-time cancer survivor, but the doctors feel they got it all off his lung and he doesn’t have to go through any more treatments.
Scary but bottom line great news.
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NEWS:
#Gophers
running back Mo Ibrahim announced Wednesday he will return to Minnesota for the 2022 season. The 2020 Big Ten Running Back of the Year had a season-ending Achilles injury in the opener against Ohio State.
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there is a LOT of maroon and gold on my flight to Denver rn
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Terrible news: My stepbrother committed suicide Saturday.
While we weren't close, connecting only a few times, I knew he struggled with mental health, addiction.
Then he lost his job.
With more shit in the world now, please fight more for yourself, family, others in need.
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Photo: The Empire State Building is lit maroon and gold for the
#Gophers
on Wednesday night. It will be orange at some point for Syracuse, too. If Minnesota wins Pinstripe Bowl on Thursday, the iconic Manhattan building will be their colors all night.
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#Gophers
six-time survivor Casey O'Brien had his second-straight, three-month scan without cancer this week, coach PJ Fleck shared on KFAN show. The placeholder also has been around football program at times during coronavirus pandemic.
"His hair is looking good," Fleck added.
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Update:
#Gophers
coach PJ Fleck said Sunday their program has zero cases of COVID-19 going into the Guaranteed Rate Bowl vs. West Virginia on Tuesday.
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Official: Mo Ibrahim has struck an NIL deal with Gushers, per email Friday from PR firm Edelman. After
#Gophers
tailback was seen munching on fruit snack mid-game this season, partnership found on General Mills product. "Mo Pack" has "Touchdown Splash" and "Tropical Rush" flavors
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Baker Mayfield called Zack Annexstad before his debut as
#Gophers
starting quarterback Thursday, coach PJ Fleck said. “That was cool,” Annexstad told Fleck. Mayfield, Heisman Trophy winner/Browns’ top pick, and Annexstad believed to be only true freshmen walk-ons to start Week 1.
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The Minnesota Twins played an American League playoff game Tuesday — the biggest stage yet this season for the ball club — and only one position player consented to speak to media members via video call after the game: rookie catcher Ryan Jeffers.
That's completely unacceptable
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News: ESPN announces College GameDay will be in Minnesota for the Battle of the Little Brown Jug between
#Gophers
and Michigan next Saturday.
Hype train revs up
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News: The
#Gophers
-Penn State game drew 6.7 million viewers on ABC on Saturday — the "best noon (11 a.m CDT) audience in nearly three seasons" and Minneapolis set a local market rating record, per a email from the network.
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Stat: NCAA quarterback ratings on third down this season:
1. Jalen Hurts, Oklahoma, 286.9
2. Tanner Morgan,
#Gophers
, 246.2
...
4. Joe Burrow, LSU, 217.0
...
9. Jake Fromm, Georgia, 193.5
10. Justin Fields, Ohio State, 191.1
11. Adrian Martinez, Nebraska, 186.3
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when I see news about MLS bailing on the U.S. Open Cup, I've routinely thought about how the late, great Grant Wahl would be absolutely hammering this shit
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New Mexico men's basketball coach Richard Pitino tells
@KFAN1003
his first order of business in new job is to get his young son Jack to stop saying, "Daddy is the head coach of Mexico."
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#Gophers
student section with a sign honoring cancer survivor/placeholder Casey O’Brien as he deals with another surgery:
“We Row With Casey.”
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Confirmed:
#Gophers
star freshman tailback Darius Taylor said Saturday he will remain at Minnesota for the 2024 season. A big deal for the Minnesota football program in the NCAA transfer portal era.
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so
#Gophers
players have victory cigars — and cigarettes! — in the visiting locker room at Camp Randall Stadium
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NEW ORDER.
#Gophers
Current Big Ten West standings:
1. Minnesota (3-2)
2. Iowa (3-2)
3. Wisconsin (3-2)
4. Nebraska (3-2)
5. Northwestern (2-3)
6. Purdue (1-4)
7. Illinois (1-4)
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NEWS: Former Edina and Notre Dame offensive lineman Quinn Carroll announced Tuesday he will transfer to the
#Gophers
. A big get for a Minnesota offensive line in transition, needing four new starters.
“God’s timing is perfect,” he posted. “I’m coming home."
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Screenshot: It appears former
#Gophers
safety Antoine Winfield Jr. will wear these cleats in
#SuperBowl
Sunday. A photo of him in
#GoBucs
jersey on one; his dad Antoine Winfield Sr. in
#Vikings
jersey on other.
“Fulfilling a legacy,” they read, via his Instagram.
#GophersinNFL
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NEWS: The
#Gophers
top receiver Chris Autman-Bell announced Thursday he will return to Minnesota for a sixth year in 2022. A MAJOR boost for an offense that will have a LOT of veteran pieces next season.
The U keeps its “CrAB”
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Development:
#Gophers
have started looking for another quarterback in the NCAA transfer portal.
Note: The U has offered a scholarship to New Hampshire QB Max Brosmer, a 6-foot-2 junior who threw for 3,464 yards, 29 touchdowns and 5 interceptions in 11 games in 2023.
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View: Marion Barber III and I were same age. As fifth graders in 1992, I played for Wayzata and saw up close how he was IN LEAGUE OF HIS OWN. As senior in section title game, he was UNSTOPPABLE for us at Maple Grove.
RIP to Minnesota football legend.
Condolences to Barber family
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My job as a sports reporter often feels like massive grind in an industry both crowded and shrinking.
But as kid, I loved NCAA tournament, esp. first Thursday, coaxing teachers to turn TV on.
That in mind, covering
#Gophers
in my first tourney, I still feel this is a dream job
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Video: Form tackling is a beautiful thing. Former
#Gophers
safety Antoine Winfield Jr., with a textbook play on special teams for Buccaneers on Monday Night Football.
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New
#Gophers
receiver commit Douglas Emilien seems charismatic and is pretty outspoken. In interview posted by South Florida Sun Sentinel, he was asked to do a self-scout.
“Beast. Just a beast. A full-on beast. … Everything. I can bring anything to the table; I am the table."
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Video: Panoramic view of finished Allianz Field, the new home of
#MNUFC
, with a throwback touch in a replica scoreboard/clock to one from the National Sports Center, their previous home in Blaine.
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Screenshot:
#Gophers
will have this Goldy look on one side of their helmets for the Guaranteed Rate Bowl vs. West Virginia on Tuesday. They have put Goldy on their lids before, but don’t believe it’s been in full color until now. They have a block M on other side.
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Check-in:
#Gophers
quarterback Tanner Morgan proposed to his girlfriend Sarah over the bye weekend. Congrats to the newly engaged couple!
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When temperatures hits 30 next weekend, you knoooow some Minnesotans will be outside in shorts
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News:
#Gophers
defensive tackle Sam Renner, a former walk-on from Maple Grove, will be signing as an undrafted free agent with the Los Angeles Rams, a source told
@PioneerPress
.
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View: Allianz Field operations/groundskeeping crew deserves credit for braving darkest elements of a Minnesota winter to remove all the snow, prep the grass and much more. Surface appeared to hold up well, and the announced crowd of 19,202 were treated -- despite frigid weather.
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NEWS: Head coach P.J. Fleck signs a new seven-year contract with
#Gophers
, the school announced Wednesday.
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Feature »
Casey O’Brien retires from
#Gophers
, leaving an inspirational legacy as a cancer survivor who fought to play college football.
St. Paul native shares with
@PioneerPress
his plans for future, updates his health, gives favorite memory at the U.
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#Gophers
junior quarterback Tanner Morgan is tied for fourth-best odds to win the Heisman Trophy in 2020, per
@betonline_ag
.
Morgan is behind three other QBs: Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence (7/2), Ohio State’s Justin Fields (4/1) and USC’s Kedon Slovis (9/1).
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#GoBucs
safety Antoine Winfield Jr. on playing in
#SuperBowl
with former
#Gophers
teammate Tyler Johnson:
"It's crazy because we both came into college together, got drafted on same team .... now we're here ... It's been amazing experience to have that with one of my friends."
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Sad news: Ted Morgan, the father of
#Gophers
quarterback Tanner Morgan, passed away Monday. Ted had a stroke in May 2020 and brain cancer was found in tests. During his fight, he kept a positive outlook, so often saying he was saved by God. Condolences to the Morgan family
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Video:
#MNUFC
Wonderwall supporters unveiled massive 9,000-square foot tifo titled “Wonderwall You Saved Me.” The 4,000-sq. ft. middle is largest single panel in Wonderwall history. More than 35 volunteers put in 200+ hours to make it happen.
View: Soccer culture is different.
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NEWS: South Korean winger Jeong Sang-bin arrived in Minnesota on Friday and is going through medical tests at National Sports Center in Blaine. If all goes well,
#MNUFC
will soon announce it has acquired Jeong on a permanent transfer from English Premier League club Wolverhampton
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#Gophers
men’s basketball player Dupree McBrayer has formed a bond with U football coach PJ Fleck, and his wife Heather, after McBrayer’s mom died after a bout with cancer in December:
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#Gophers
linebacker Blake Cashman, a special teams stud, will receive a scholarship, coach PJ Fleck said this morning on
@wccoradio
.
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#Gophers
included redshirt freshman holder Casey O'Brien on its travel roster to face Illinois. Cretin-Derham Hall graduate has beat cancer four times (!) now; he's on Memorial Stadium field with U specialists. Very cool.
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Avante Dickerson, the four-star, crown jewel of
#Gophers
football program's 2021 recruiting class, posted an impressive two-minute highlight reel of him making plays all over the field in Omaha on Thursday.
It finished with a shot of Minnesota's Block "M" logo ...
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Developments:
#Gophers
QB Tanner Morgan kept it on read-option, and got a nice gain Saturday; TE Brevyn Spann-Ford caught an intermediate pass over the middle; Ks Matthew Trickett and Brock Walker have made some field goals from 40-plus yards.
If you follow U football, you know
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Photo: Poor Jan Gregus. During a finishing drill, the
#MNUFC
midfielder’s errant shot sailed into the players’ parking lot and knocked off the review mirror casing on his own SUV. Whoops.
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Achievement: Green Bay Packers linebacker De'Vondre Campbell is the first former
#Gophers
player to be named NFL All-Pro since Washington kicker Chip Lohmiller in 1991. Pretty incredible to be the first one in 30 YEARS. (Thanks to the U's
@KarlGAnderson
for digging up this fact.)
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Update:
#Gophers
head coach PJ Fleck said Monday he expects star running back Mo Ibrahim to play against Illinois on Saturday.
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#Gophers
football coach PJ Fleck addressed his name mentioned for Tennessee vacancy for first time on Wednesday:
"I'm committed to the University of Minnesota. ... We love it here. Simple as that. ... My agent spoke for the party of us. We love coaching here. We love being here"
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#Gophers
football’s 2019 recruiting class deemed one of six “winners,” per a Yahoo story Thursday. They’re in category with Alabama, Oregon, Georgia, Mack Brown and Herm Edwards. It mentions No. 33 ranking, highest for Rivals since 2008; Tyler Nubin and Jacob Clark specifically.
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NEWS STORY: Minnesota United has parted ways with Adrian Heath, a source confirmed to
@PioneerPress
on Friday morning. (
@tombogert
had news first.)
#MNUFC
has only been led by Heath in its
#MLS
era.
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leaving the bat on your shoulder in 9th is like throwing short of the sticks on 4th down. we’ve seen this before
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SHOOT YOUR SHOT!
#Gophers
On third and goal from the 9, PJ Fleck and Greg Harbaugh take best target Daniel Jackson off the field and run the ball to Marcus Major. It goes nowhere.
Same story, different year
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News:
#Gophers
had three defensive players named to all-Big Ten teams Tuesday: DE Boye Mafe (third team); DE Esezi Otomewo, LB Mariano Sori-Marin (honorable mention).
Context: Pretty low representation for a U defense that was 11th in nation in scoring and 4th in total yards.
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NEWS:
#Gophers
receiver Rashod Bateman announces he has been reinstated to play in the 2020 college football season.
"I’d like to thank Mark Coyle, Coach (PJ) Fleck and the NCAA for allowing me to compete again with my brothers," he said on social media Wednesday.
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News: Former
#Gophers
running back David Cobb announced he has been hired as a scouting assistant with the Carolina Panthers. “Thankful and excited for the journey,” he wrote. He will be under the same roof as current Panthers RB Rodney Smith.
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Video: View behind the north goal at
#MNUFC
’s Allianz Field, which is 95 percent complete and club will receive keys to arena in 88 days, according to Loons’ Bryant Pfeiffer.
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Post:
#USWNT
star Megan Rapinoe touched by "special" mural of her iconic pose outside a St. Paul bar.
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Video:
#MNUFC
supporters welcome the club’s to-be first Designated Player, Colombian attacking midfielder Darwin Quintero, at MSP Airport on Wednesday night.
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Part beast; part bird.
#MNUFC
Cool tifo from supporters groups in
@MNWonderwall
to welcome new Welshman head coach Eric Ramsay, who is in his first game on the touch line at Allianz Field on Saturday night.
Combo of Welsh dragon and
#Loons
crest
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Report: Former
#Gophers
placeholder Casey O’Brien is battling cancer again, per KARE 11 anchor and fellow survivor Randy Shaver.
View: Casey has been an inspiration to so many people as he’s repeatedly fought off the disease and will undoubtedly bring that same resolve yet again
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Hey, crew, wanna let ya know big personal news:
@jackiegaston10
said last week that she’d marry me!
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Quote: Bowling Green coach Scot Loeffler at postgame podium to a reporter sitting roughly 10 feet away about the
#Gophers
’ passing attack in Quick Lane Bowl:
“They couldn’t throw it from me to you.”
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Report: Edina offensive tackle Quinn Carroll will exit Notre Dame and is in NCAA transfer portal as a graduate transfer, per
@Matt_Fortuna
. Carroll was the No. 1 recruit in state of Minnesota in the 2019 class and he had
#Gophers
as a finalist before he picked Irish.
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NEWS:
#Gophers
safety Tyler Nubin said Friday he will return to Minnesota for the 2023 season.
Quote: "I'm not done yet."
Context: This is a massive boost to the U defense next season, especially with safety Jordan Howden and cornerback Terell Smith out of eligibility.
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Note:
#Gophers
offensive lineman Daniel Faalele has accepted an invite to play in the Senior Bowl, the destination for top NFL Draft prospects.
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Shoutout: A member of my family has been very sick but in recovery was up for
@Twins
game Wednesday. Moving slow as we entered Target Field, guest services immediately offered help, pushed wheelchair to/from seats and checked on us in between. Impressive. Thoughtful. Thanks! ❤️⚾️
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Two people were standing up on the south side of The Barn's court when Dupree McBrayer went to the line for two crucial free throws: PJ and Heather Fleck.
#Gophers
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