Gophers shortstop Jess Oakland named Big Ten softball player of the year Jess Oakland, the Gophers' sophomore leader at shortstop, ranks among the nation's leaders in batting average (.455), home runs (19) and on-base percentage (.553). 05/8/2024 - 3:49 pm | View Link
Lindahl Academic Center Announce 2023-24 Academic Awards Justen Close (Men's Hockey) and Madeline Wethington (Women's Hockey) highlighted the 2023-24 academic awards, announced today by Gopher ... 05/8/2024 - 12:58 am | View Link
Big Ten softball's most prolific hitter? Gophers shortstop Jess Oakland batting .457 with 19 home runs. A 10-game hitless stretch tested that ultraconfident freshman, but she bounced back to earn All-Big Ten honors. Overcoming early adversity set the stage for a monstrous follow-up season for Oakland. 05/7/2024 - 5:51 am | View Link
Gophers men’s basketball: Cam Christie enters NCAA transfer portal after declaring for NBA draft The Gophers’ all-Big Ten freshman team player entered the NCAA ... Christie was one of 195 players to be named an early entry draft candidate and he can withdraw from the process and play ... 05/1/2024 - 3:59 am | View Link
Pair of Gophers Garner Big Ten Honors MINNEAPOLIS - University of Minnesota golfer Ben Warian has been named Second Team All-Big Ten, the conference announced Tuesday. A senior, Warian has competed in all 12 tournaments for the Gophers ... 04/30/2024 - 3:30 am | View Link
The Broncos have made passing a kidney stone look easier than passing the football the past eight years. Only two quarterbacks since Peyton Manning boast a winning record – Trevor Siemian and Brett Rypien – and Russell Wilson is the only starter of the last 13 to eclipse 20 touchdowns in a season.
Coach Sean Payton thought so little of Wilson’s style that he decided he would rather take an $85 million cap hit than continue playing him.
He now has his guy in Bo Nix.
The Denver Nuggets dominated the Minnesota Timberwolves with a 117-90 win in Game 3 of their second-round NBA playoff series at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, May 10, 2024. The Nuggets trail 1-2 in the series.
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MINNEAPOLIS – The face of the Nuggets’ most impressive win of the season wore orange sherbet and raspberry kicks and a black hat.
Jamal Murray stepped onto the Target Center court to thunderous boos and embraced the role of the villain. After throwing a towel Monday, Murray refused to throw in the towel Friday.
He embarrassed the organization with his actions and his lack of accountability following Game 2.
MINNEAPOLIS — Aaron Gordon made the Timberwolves respect him, Jamal Murray made them fear him, and the Nuggets made them realize mowing through the Western Conference isn’t meant to be easy.
The Nuggets have made this a series, for now at least. They still must win Sunday at Target Center to avoid facing three consecutive elimination games, but a clinical 117-90 victory Friday over the Timberwolves closed the gap to 2-1 in the second round of the playoffs.
Initial thoughts from the Nuggets’ Game 3 Western Conference Semifinal win over the Timberwolves:
Murray the Bad Guy is a Good Thing: Jamal Murray wanted the smoke more than the Marlboro Man. Booed relentlessly each time he touched the ball, Murray met the moment, embracing the villain role. After serving as a ghost in the first halves of the first two games, Murray erupted for 18 points in the first 24 minutes.
Rangers right-hander Jon Gray and Rockies lefty Austin Gomber engaged in a sensational pitching dual Friday night at Coors Field. But 37-year-old Charlie Blackmon stole the show.
The veteran ripped a two-out, two-run double off of right-hander Yerry Rodríguez in the eighth inning to lift the Rockies to a 4-2 victory and give them their first winning streak of the season.
By winning two in a row — the Rockies beat the Giants on Thursday — the Rockies snapped a streak of 51 games without consecutive wins (37 games in 2024), the longest stretch in franchise history.
Leave it to Blackmon, a franchise icon, to be the difference-maker.
“I’m not a big, rah-rah, super-emotion guy, but I do like to come through in big spots and big team situations,” said Blackmon, who had tied the game in the seventh by sprinting from first to home on a shallow popup to center that turned into an error.