Condolences to Murray Warmath whose daughter, Carol Dillow, 65, died Thursday night from ovarian cancer. Carol was a devoted fan of coach Warmath’s Golden Gophers while growing up in Edina. “She should have been a football coach,” Murray said. “She knew more about football than most anyone I ever met.” Carol was a homemaker, lived in the Kansas City area and is survived by husband Dick and their three children, Andy, Bill and Laurie. Memorials can be sent to the Warmath scholarship fund at the University of Minnesota. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 14 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Edina.
Gerhart has long been an outstanding student in the classroom and he said that while at Stanford he received his first “D” in about 12 years. He was a management science and engineering major at Stanford.
Former Gophers linebacker Nate Triplett, a fifth round draft choice, told Sports Headliners he has no other pro football plans if he doesn’t make the Vikings roster. “Playing for the Vikings is the only thing on my table right now,” he said.
Triplett seems most likely to make the team as a special teams player. He excelled in that role at Minnesota and has an aggressive mentality, willing to be the “guy making the bigger collision.”
Former Gophers cornerback Marcus Sherels, not chosen in the recent NFL draft, impressed Vikings coach Brad Childress with his speed last week when the team worked out its draft choices and others trying to make the roster.
Doubt that it will happen, but some day Brett Favre’s plaque at the Pro Football Hall of Fame could include a blurb or two about his skills as a publicist. He keeps his name in the national media including last week when ESPN reported he will need surgery on his left ankle to play next season. Then Favre followed up with more detail on his Website. www.officialbrettfavre.com
Earlier this year Favre picked a relatively slow news time to appear on the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Last year Favre waited until training camp to announce whether he would play another NFL season, creating suspense similar to his future for 2010.
Favre’s off-season newsmaking is great for the Favre brand. He keeps his name in the media, a fact that certainly can’t go unappreciated by his corporate sponsors.
Here’s an off-season to-do list for Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher, courtesy of a Sports Headliners hockey source. Sign Mikko Koivu and Guillaume Latendresse to multi-year contracts, bolster the center position, and decide whether to trade either Niklas Backstrom or Josh Harding, making a shrewd deal for one of the goalies. The source believes Fletcher will become an outstanding general manager.