From The Barn

No big names yet, but slowly but surely the 2009-2010 schedule is filling in for the Gophers. The latest “confirmed” opponent is Morgan State, according to Jeff Goodman. The Bears join St. Joe’s and Stephen F. Austin on the schedule.
Morgan State isn’t anywhere close to a “name” program, though they can not be taken lightly. [...]

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Not a bad thing to hang on the wall, but for historical purposes, I would strongly encourage you to mount it in a coffee table, just to be authentic. Unfortunately, the fine folks at the athletic department haven’t yet learned how to sell things on-line, so you’ll have to deal  with an actual person. As [...]

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This time the expectations involve not getting high on meth and causing a police stand-off. Unfortunately, this is not his first run-in with the law.
Shane Schilling, a former Gophers basketball player and the 1999 Star Tribune Metro Player of the Year at Minnetonka, is in the Carver County Jail, facing felony charges of making terroristic threats [...]

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This article is part four of our season review. Part one discussed Kevin Payton. Part two looked at Travis Busch. Part three covered Jamal Abu-Shamala.

A man among boys, a giant they say
With such a length and such width he’d be great some day.
The recruiters went out to get him to sign
They called so often they [...]

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This article is part three of our season review. Part one discussed Kevin Payton. Part two looked at Travis Busch.

“So Jamal Abu-Shamala is white?”
“Yup, and from Shakopee!”
Jamal Abu-Shamala, the native Minnesotan who recently ended his Gopher career as the most productive member of the class of 2009, was never quite what was expected. For those [...]

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The voice of the Gophers hasn’t quite hung up the headset for good.
Ray Christensen, the legendary 50-year radio voice of Gopher football, has agreed to be part of the play-by-play broadcast for the University of Minnesota’s inaugural game at TCF Bank Stadium on September 12, 2009, as announced today by Athletics Director Joel Maturi, in [...]

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It isn’t often that two of my favorite pass times collide. The one that gets me through the winter (college basketball) and the one that gets me through work (public radio) occupy divergent ends of the entertainment spectrum. In Minnesota, however, nearly everything seems to be within one or two degrees of separation from public [...]

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This article is part two of our season review. Part one, Kevin Payton, can be read here.

How did it come to this? A former Mr. Basketball returning to play for the home town team as a walk-on at one of the lowest points in the program’s history should be likable, shouldn’t he? It should be [...]

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