https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z5fH_DQmFY Sportsball.  Whether from right or left, RETVRN Twitter or Bluesky elders, it implies lack of se...

As one of the 6.5 people who read this blog, I suspect you also had elaborate plans to see the Gophers in the Rose Bowl. There aren’t a lo...

The vibes were immaculate. The tailgates lots around the stadium were filled with heavy traffic of smiling, excited Gopher fans. Black and g...

I identify a difference between “happiness” and “joy”. I associate “happiness” with a state of satisfaction relating to a specific event or ...

Sports aren’t important. Relative to family, friends, one’s community, religion, pets, and professional life, the performance of one’s sport...

Reeled from the sabre stroke    Shattered and sundered. Then they rode back, but not    Not the six hundred. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson November...

This is a weird one in that I feel it most in my teeth. Not sure that’s ever happened before. Can’t say I’m a fan.   I’ve gotten pretty go...

It’s been a fun week in Gopher fandom. Every day the Michigan message boards creep towards clarity.  Michigan State’s athletics department c...

I really hate Wisconsin. Like, an every-fiber-of-my being, diagnosable personality disorder level of hate. I get triggered when I see a Wisc...

  Hello All,   I’m Douglas Fir.   Like many of you I watched the University of Minnesota defeat the University of Iowa in a football gam...

Darius Taylor is pretty good, yeah? Hoo wee, watching him mash the [REDACTED] player at the line of scrimmage, then taking it outside to bre...

 Same old Gophers, right? I don’t know how long I’ve been on the Gopher boards – probably 15 years or so – but this week has been one of t...