Pam Borton Released As Gopher Women's B-Ball Coach
The University of Minnesota has relieved women's basketball coach Pam Borton of her duties. Assistant coach Kelly Roysland was named interim women's head basketball coach.
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The University of Minnesota has relieved women's basketball coach Pam Borton of her duties. Assistant coach Kelly Roysland was named interim women's head basketball coach.
The University of Minnesota is hosting a celebration of the 100th birthday of Norman Borlaug, one of the school's most celebrated graduates. Borlaug's pioneering work on plant breeding helped Mexico, India and Pakistan become self-sufficient in wheat production.
At the stables of We Can Ride -- a nonprofit that provides horses as riding therapy for people with disabilities -- keeping a healthy herd is vital to the operation.
A snowy owl who came to Minnesota after being injured in Washington, D.C. is recovering after a unique procedure.
The father of the so-called Green Revolution has a permanent home in the U.S. Capitol. Lawmakers unveiled a statue of Norman Borlaug on Tuesday in a ceremony on what would have been his 100th birthday. The Iowa native and University of Minnesota graduate is credited with saving as many as 1 billion people from hunger by creating a type of wheat that was disease resistant and high-yielding.
Friends and family are putting together a benefit for a former Gopher hockey star who has been given just a few months to live.
Shannon MacAulay scored on a breakaway with 4:16 left in the third and it proved to be the difference as Clarkson beat two-time defending champion Minnesota in Sunday's NCAA women's hockey championship.
When DeAndre Mathieu got hurt, Maverick Ahanmisi got his chance he'd been waiting his entire college career for. In what could have been the senior's last college game, he scored a career-high 21 points in the Gophers' opening-round win over High Point University.
It's been six months since 20-year-old Anarae Schunk of Burnsville went missing and was later found dead in southern Minnesota.
The University of Minnesota announced Thursday goalie Adam Wilcox has been named one of 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, which goes to the top player in college hockey.
It's been 10 days since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared. Since that time, it seems like most everyone has a theory about what happened to the Boeing 777 on its way from Kuala Lampur to Beijing. Many WCCO-TV viewers have sent in their Good Questions on everything from the logistics to how planes work to why people never made phone calls. So, we thought we'd answer some of the Good Questions we've heard throughout the week.
Adam Wilcox was one of many winners for the University of Minnesota men's hockey team Monday as the Big Ten Conference handed out its inaugural awards. Wilcox, one of the top goalies in the country, earned the Big Ten Player of the Year and Goaltender of the Year awards.
The Gophers aren't in the NCAA Tournament. Instead in a weird bit of poetry, they'll play Tubby Smith's alma mater, High Point, on Tuesday night in the opening round of the NIT at Williams Arena.
Minnesota's first postseason under coach Richard Pitino will be in the NIT, just like his predecessor Tubby Smith.
A rescued puppy is back at his foster mom's house and healing after undergoing surgery to correct deformed front paws. The hound puppy, Cupid, underwent surgery this week. Cupid was taken in a month ago by Ruff Start Rescue. His front paws bowed out, making it difficult for the hound puppy to walk.
As DeAndre Mathieu performs, so go the Minnesota Golden Gophers. That's a lot of responsibility to fall on a player with such small shoulders, but there's no one on the roster more likely to be unfazed by pressure than the speedy, elusive, fearless Mathieu.
High schools that start later in the morning may be doing their students a world of good, according to a new study released by the University of Minnesota. The three-year project, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control, studied five Minnesota high schools.
The governor of Rhode Island is traveling to Minneapolis to deliver remarks at the University of Minnesota. Democratic Gov. Lincoln Chafee is scheduled to speak at the university's Humphrey School of Public Affairs Wednesday evening.
The Big Ten Conference announced Tuesday that defenseman Mike Reilly earned the league's Third Star of the Week honor after the Gophers beat Ohio State last Friday and lost Saturday in a shootout.
The Big Ten Conference handed out its season honors on Monday with the league's postseason tournament a few days away, and a pair of Gophers were recognized. Junior guards Andre Hollins and DeAndre Mathieu were both named to the All-Big Ten Honorable Mention team.
Austin Hollins had 14 points and three steals in his last scheduled home game, a fitting senior spark for Minnesota in an 81-63 victory over Penn State on Sunday to set up a rematch between these teams in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.
Diane Yang may be small in stature, but she's a big force in La Belle Vie's kitchen. "This is my corner of the kitchen. It's nice because we have the window," Yang said. "We're the only place in the kitchen that has a window, so it keeps us sane." As executive pastry chef of the top restaurant in the Twin Cities, Yang and her team are setting the standard for desserts.
President Barack Obama has invited the University of Minnesota women's hockey team to the White House.
The Minnesota Vikings have re-signed punt returner and cornerback Marcus Sherels. The team made the announcement Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sherels is a native of Rochester, Minn., and played in college at the University of Minnesota.
Novelist Anne Rice, best known for her books about vampires, has signed onto a petition asking Amazon.com to stop allowing people to post anonymous reviews. In an interview with the Guardian, Rice says the "anti-author gangsters" make her a victim of bullying.
