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Copy shortlink: Much like everything in 2020, roster planning even for the near future is a bit nebulous. After the Gophers football team's 3-4 season, in which it missed two games during a COVID-19 outbreak and struggled with depth, the program needs all the help it can muster. And, in a 2020 rarity, it has some help from the football gods. The NCAA passed two key pandemic-related rules earlier this year that will make this offseason very intriguing. First, every player earned an extra year of eligibility to make up for shortened, delayed or even canceled seasons. Tha...

Gophers to face Nebraska with retooled offensive line Gophers coach P.J. Fleck said the team would miss more than 20 players from COVID-19 after a recent outbreak.   December 12, 2020 — 10:30am Text size Copy shortlink: In the first game back from a COVID-19 outbreak, the Gophers will be shorthanded. Coach P.J. Fleck had said earlier this week the team would be without more than 20 players just from positive COVID-19 tests after the team dealt with an outbreak throughout the past two weeks that peaked at 49 cases, inclu...

December 10, 2020 Going into the 2020 season, I had my suspicions that Minnesota might struggle to match their 2019 success. It might have been the Gophers’ stumbles in their non-conference games, or the fact that they never beat anyone last season who had a returning starter. It might also have had to do with the fact that the Gophers only had four returning starters on defense. But Minnesota throttled Nebraska and Auburn, so I pretty much had to accept “scoreboard” as a reason that boat rowing was now a very real factor in the Big Ten’s West division. But all of that started to u...

hardest hit. we spent the day driving around yazoo city, about 100 miles north east of here into the other hardest hit area of mississippi, chocktaw county, a little town where a little community outside of that town is where three of the youngest victims were killed by this storm, three young girls, ages 13, 9 and 3 months. we drove along the road where their homes once stood, and don, what we saw there was absolutely amazing. homes that just don't exist anymore. one of the mobile homes where two of the 13-year-old and the 9-year-old lived doesn't exist. it was blown away over the t...