Gopher basketball M man John Bell Wilson said Adam Boone has ended his pro career in Austria and is back in Minneapolis. The ex-Gopher guard wants to work in sports administration, Wilson said.
Tubby’s Tipoff on Friday, October 15 starts at 10 p.m. and will provide Gophers fans their first look at coach Tubby Smith’s team. The event at Williams Arena will include a scrimmage and dunk contest.
Minneapolis born and New Jersey Devils star Zach Parise was among the hockey celebrities at an NHL image making cocktail party hosted by Vanity Fair magazine earlier this month at New York’s Monkey Bar, according to The Fischler Report of September 21-27. Attendees also included Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
All Big Ten teams begin playing conference games on Saturday and Minnesota, 1-3 after four nonconference games, is the only team in the league with a losing record. It looks like Minnesota’s eight conference opponents will all be favored in games against the Gophers who before the season started were predicted to finish with an overall 2-10 record.
Ed Rauen, 75, has been covering Gophers football for KROC Radio in Rochester since 1973. He had no broadcasting experience when he went on the air for KROC as a color man on Gopher football games in 1973.
Former Edina state tennis champion Whitney Taney has been elected a co-captain by her University of Michigan teammates. Taney and Rika Tatsuno from California will be co-captains for the Wolverines who began their fall schedule last weekend. The two were 10-0 in doubles last season and ranked No. 4 nationally. Taney, a senior and captain for the second consecutive season, has been selected to play in the ITA/Riviera Women’s All-American Championships next month.
J Robinson’s Gopher wrestling team is ranked No. 4 in WrestlingReport.com’s national preseason ratings. Cornell is No. 1. https://wrestlingreport.com/college/rank/ncaa_rank.htm
Robinson, 64, has worked for years without a multi-year contract but is negotiating a deal now with Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi.
Fans of NFL teams can become involved with “The Kick Hunger Challenge,” an online campaign led by Taste of the NFL. The idea is for fans from all 32 NFL teams to compete against each other to see who can raise the most money for food banks. The online-only campaign is an extension of the Taste of the NFL’s events that support hunger relief. Fans who register at www.TasteoftheNFL.com can create their own fan page to forward to family and friends and “draft” them to make a financial donation and be part of the challenge.