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May 12—Sebastian Vile never could have imagined that it would come to this. The "marriage" that he had with the University of Minnesota tennis team, it was pretty close to perfect. And now? Well, now it's over, the Gophers men's tennis program done in by budget cuts. Minnesota eliminated the program at the close of this season. Vile, a 2018 Rochester Mayo graduate and former Class AA state ...
The desperation to reduce strikeouts and get more balls in play has reached a point that Major League Baseball has a deal with the independent Atlantic League to move back the pitcher's mound a foot, to 61 feet, 6 inches, starting in early August. There's a possibility this will cause more wild pitches on sliders in the dirt than cut into strikeouts, but there's also an example where moving ...
In late February, college basketball's coaching carousel spun through a sequence that could reshape the Gophers men's program. The Gophers took a disappointing loss at Nebraska on Feb. 27, and coach Richard Pitino gave an emotional postgame speech that, according to sources, left team members convinced he would not be back as their coach next season. That same week, another job opened, as New ...
The Sampo Ranta & Co. Show will go on for at least one more night in South Bend, Ind. A day after scoring the winning goal in overtime against Michigan State in the Big Ten hockey tournament, Ranta, the Gophers standout junior forward, scored with 4:26 left in the third period, helping Minnesota rally from a two-goal deficit to force overtime against Michigan. That enabled junior captain Sammy ...
Richard Pitino is still the Gophers coach. For how long? His boss, Mark Coyle. hasn't made that known yet. Whether Pitino stays or Coyle starts over, the nature of that job will receive fresh scrutiny. Is being Gophers men's basketball coach a good job, hard job, great job, overrated job, or something in the middle? I asked four current or former Division I coaches who have followed the ...