The Minnesota Timberwolves are 1-2 in their first three games after an 11-point win over Milwaukee on Friday and a road-loss to Memphis by 20 points on Saturday. They may want to visit Baldwin hardware to learn how to nail down their opponents more effectively, but the team’s still playing with more spark than last [...]
Tubby Smith finally landed a potential replacement for senior point guard Al Nolan this weekend as Memphis-based point guard Andre Hollins committed to the maroon and gold for the 2011 recruiting class. Though rated a three-star prospect, many believe his potential is currently undervalued and that he could start in his freshman year. Hollins is [...]
Minnesota Gophers football coach Tim Brewster’s been history for two weeks now, but the team isn’t using his absence to show they’re any better off without him, as Ohio State pounded the maroon and gold into submission, 52-10, on Saturday. Their only touchdown drive came in the first quarter on a seven-yard run be DeLeon [...]
There’s really only one great name out there on college football that could turn Minnesota around effectively. His name is Holtz, and I don’t mean Lou. I’m talking about his son, Skip. Skip Holtz was 38-27 in five seasons at East Carolina, a team that was 3-20 in the two years before he was hired; [...]
If most quarterbacks in the NFL had to breaks in their ankles, they’d be riding pine no matter how they felt or felt about it. Not Minnesota’s prima donna, Brett Favre, who has an increasingly mythical “iron man” streak to protect. Brett says whether he starts against New England this weekend is “his call.” And [...]
Playing the Sacramento Kings at Target center for their season opener wasn’t the toughest assignment in the world; but for a team like Minnesota that won only fifteen games last season.. and most of them by healthy margins… just about every game is a tough assignment. But that was last year and about eight of [...]
Trading Al Jefferson away to the Utah Jazz might end up being the best move of the off-season, if preseason results are any indication. With a 4-1 record and 10 days to go before the start of the season, the Wolves are looking not at all like the 15-win team they were last season. Many [...]
Co-offensive coordinator Jeff Horton has been named the interim head coach of the Minnesota Gophers football team today, it was announced in a University of Minnesota press conference today. Athletic director Joel Maturi contradicted online reports late last night that Brewster would be released from the remainder of his contract but would stay on to [...]
With elbow tendinitis and a sexting scandal brewing, the big question circling the Minnesota Vikings tonight is whether Brett Favre will start today’s game or break his streak of 289 consecutive regular season starts… 313 with playoff appearances included. That’s a huge streak, nearly 100 games ahead of Peyton Manning, but it could all come [...]
Two sources… 1500espn.com and GopherIllustrated.com… are reporting that Tim Brewster has been informed he won’t be brought back next year as coach of the Minnesota Gophers football team. Break out the cigars, if you’re a smoker. I was never a fan of the selection of Brewster to run the Gophers program because no matter how [...]
While no one expects the pre-season exhibition games mean anything about how a team will perform when it counts, with the Minnesota Timberwolves, anywhere one can find hope, one grasps onto it. And with a 4-1 exhibition record so far, the Wolves are looking like a team that might actually break 20 wins this season. [...]
The Minnesota Golden Gophers have five games left in their season, but after today’s 28-17 loss to Purdue, arguably the most winnable game left on Minnesota’s schedule, coach Tim Brewster’s fate ought to be sealed. Maybe he should even look into a medical job going forward, because Big 10 football simply isn’t his forte. Now, [...]
