Judge Culpepper, a 6-5 tight end from Plant HS in Tampa, Fl received an offer today from the Gophers.

Judge is the son of former NFL defensive end Brad Culpepper, who was drafted by the Vikngs in the early 1990s. Dad was a Florida Gator. Judge's older brother Rex will be a freshman QB at Syracuse.

Judges played some QB last season and was his teams starting QB on JV as a freshman.

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You've got to be kidding.

I was born about 40 years too late, can't believe I've had to watch this sh*t out of Wisconsin for almost 20 years now.

and UNI take the MVC tournament.

The Goal Line Club in coordination with the Bug Bee Hive Resort in Paynesville is proud to announce the First Annual GLC Golden Gopher Fishing Classic. This event is a direct result of Coach Claeys' strong interest in fishing and the follow through of interested Golden Gopher fans in Central Minnesota filtered through the GLC and resulting in what will be a first class event. A number of the coaches are avid fishermen & actively participated in events held when they were at SIU and NIU. This should be the first of an anticipated annual event. Some information is given below -- for a full run down of the three aspects to the event go and registration for the Classic (the items can be ordered separately), follow this link to the GLC site:http://goallineclub.com/

Golden Gopher Fishing Classic

Thursday, June 2 - Friday, June 3, 2016

Lake Koronis - Paynesville, MN

Connect with Golden Gopher Football fans and members of the Coaching Staff during this exciting, family-friendly FUN-draiser for your favorite team. Fish stories and football are at the heart of the game plan.

The ALL-INCLUSIVE PRICE for the Golden Gopher Fishing Classic is $100 for adults, $35 for ages 11-20, and free for those 10 and under. The all-inclusive price includes the Thursday night Meet & Greet Tailgate Party, Friday morning breakfast, the four-hour Fishing Classic and the Awards Luncheon program.

All activities take place at the Bug-Bee Hive Resort, Lodge & Event Center.

Meet & Greet Tailgate Party
The event begins with a 4:30pm Social Hour followed by food service at 6:00pm. Head Coach Tracy Claeys kicks off the program at 7:30pm.

Fishing Classic
The day's festivities start with breakfast at 8:00am. Anglers will take to the water from 9:00am - 1:00pm.

Awards Luncheon
The luncheon begins at 2:00pm with several awards being handed out to the event’s finest anglers.

Lodging is available at the Bug-Bee Hive Resort, Lodge & Retreat Center and the Paynesville Inn & Suites. We highly recommend making reservations well in advance.

Bug-Bee Hive Resort, Lodge & Retreat Center
320-243-4448

Paynesville Inn & Suites
320-243-4146

Participants must provide their own boat. All anglers must have a valid Minnesota fishing license, fishing gear and a life jacket. Four anglers per boat is preferred.

Bronson Koenig delivers a boner for JJ and Sherman with a 3 to beat Xavier

So, Duke pushed to the limits by UNC-Wilmington
Texas Tech gets bounced early (making Tubby haters worldwide smirk if only a little bit)

Colorado looking good early over UConn
Iowa State's once-massive lead over Iona continues to shrink before half

If those hold, I'd be 3-1/4-0 in all my brackets thus far. I flip-flopped between Iowa State getting upset and beating Iona in all my brackets

http://www.thechampaignroom.com/201...aff-lovie-smith-fighting-illini-football-news

Head Coach: Lovie Smith (Link)
Offensive Coordinator: Garrick McGee (Link)
Defensive Coordinator: Hardy Nickerson
Offensive Line Coach: Luke Butkus (Link)
Wide Receivers Coach: Andrew Hayes-Stoker (Link)
Running Backs Coach: EMPTY
Defensive Line Coach: Mike Phair (Returning)

Lovie stole Bobby Petrino's OC in Garrick McGee, got former NFL great and current 49ers assistant coach Hardy Nickerson as DC, and he's got a Butkus back on campus to coach his OLine.

I'll admit, that's a better staff than I thought he would put together. I think it's totally brilliant to be able to brand yourself as the only staff in America with an African American head coach, OC, and DC. Football coaches are disproportionately white compared to players.

THAT is gonna play well in a lot of living rooms. Back when I thought we were gonna hire Charlie Strong, I was hoping he would come and hire a largely African-American staff. Such a great way to brand yourself right off the bat.

Also, raise your hand if you thought the Illini would be willing to pay 900K for a coordinator?!? I sure didn't.

Lovie has impressed me a lot already. Minnesota is gonna have to continue improving facilities going forward, and obviously after a big season this fall (crosses fingers)---Claeys and co. will need a contract closer to what Kill had.

Sabonis from Gonzaga? Guessing he doesn't have the outside game, but if he can defend the post, rebound on both ends and block some shots half as good as the aforementioned, I'll be a happy camper.

Watching him a TV, trying to recall how it played out many, many moons ago. He was part of a highly ranked recruiting class, then he got released and signed with Purdue.

It is exciting that even though we are losing our top two CBs (who are going in the draft) that the is so much potential in our secondary. This is where I hope the upgrade in recruiting that we have had with DBs starts to show on the filed. There are three keys: (1) Travis and Myrick staying healthy; (2) Buford and Dior stepping up; and (3) getting a better pass rush (especially early in the season) so the group has time to gel. We have some nice true freshmen arriving, but I hope that we can maintain the redshirts on them. It is amazing how much this staff, Sawvel in particular, have upgrade the DB talent.

On a side note, I would not be surprised to see Huff and Coughlin combine for over 10 sacks this next season. I think we score more on offense, which translate to opposing teams throwing more.

History says no.. Sanity will prevail and the blue bloods like Kansas as well as either North Carolina, Indiana, or Kentucky will make it.....But this is interesting though my bracket picks are trashed.

Think about this.....9 of the 32 remaining teams are seeded double digits..... 5 of 8 teams in the Midwest are seeded 9 or lower... I would love to see the upsets.. Due to my contempt for Calipari, I will cheer for Indiana to make it to the 2nd weekend but one of those teams will be out after the first weekend, which is interesting. All the talk of the Big 12 and Texas, West Virginia, Baylor didnt make it out of the first round. Who knows who else may get beat by Sunday night in the power conferences. The ACC did the best coming out of the first round except for Pitt.

I say the 'heck with the brackets" as I am cheering for the underdogs.. Cheering for Butler, Little Rock, and Middle Tennessee State in the Midwest. Yale and Northern Iowa in the West. Stephen F Austin in the East. Hawaii, Wichita State in the South. TO me that would make for an interesting sweet 16 though I doubt that will happen.

Wisconsin with a huge buzzer beater to beat Macura.

Ohio state beats msu in OT. Gophers v Buckeyes tomorrow night.

Vote for clinton?

I actually think Bernie has some good ideas. He would never get them passed but he would get things at least moving in the right direction for lower cost medical expenses and education. I agree that wall Street is sleazy. Necessary but it needs a bath.

That said, clinton is an absolute piece of ****ing shit that lies, swindles, and flat out let people that give us freedom die.

F her. F her straight to hell.

And , no, this is not a pro Trump thread. It's simply an anti-clinton thread.

Getting smoked.

At least one gender is holding up our Hockey Tradition!

It's slow so I felt like bitchin. You know how so many "stars" have said they'll move to another country if Trump wins? Well I'm not moving, but I understand their point. HOW CAN WISCY AND IOWA consistently get 2-3 teams in the dance and we rarely get one? One! Happening occasionally could be luck. Happening regularly is skill. And honestly it's been similar with the comparative quality of the 3 major fb programs....IA and Wiscy have been way way way better than us for, well, decades now. My partner, who played fb at minny says it's a lack of committment. But that's so nebulous. I don't know what the problem is, but it's here like a virus and we can't seem to shake it. This AD hire, to me, is going to either: A. Reflect a desire to commit to finding excellence or B. Commit to living with the virus and accepting mediocrity. No, accepting sub-mediocrity. (This is mostly a bball rant, I'm cautiously optomistic about football). End of whining!

I know there aren't a ton of baseball followers. Toby Hanson hasn't played in a while for the baseball team was hitting for average .458 and power. Does anyone know if he is hurt?

gophers up 1-0 after one
Potomak scored 17 seconds in

BC was really controlling play for the last 5 mins or so of the period

http://www.startribune.com/hopkins-eighth-grader-s-play-belies-her-age/372301371/

After reading this and getting a chance to watch her on the highlights of sports last night I hope the Gophers women's BB ends up with this young lady. She's amazing for her age. Scratch that, she's just amazing period. If you get a chance to watch her you'll see why.

McMillan and Stecklein should be the most valuable players. If I recall correctly McMillan was a scorer in high school, but she played back for the most part as a college player. She was a big horse for a girl; I think she could have scored a lot more, but they would've lost more games. Stecklein is only a junior, and they have those two super freshman on offense so they could be back next year.

University of Minnesota junior Austin Athmann went 5-for-5 from the plate, including a home run, his third of the season, along with two RBI to lead Minnesota to a 12-2 win at Seattle University on Wednesday.

Athmann's five hits were the most by a Gopher since Kyle Knudson had five against Penn State in 2010.

Athmann's had at least one hit in the last eight games and has batted .531 over that stretch.

...as good as finding Cinemax on your cable box as a junior high kid.

I am very anti-cronicapitalism and anti-socialism. I have no clue where our country is headed, but i read this little piece and it explained ecerything i fear. I don't know the right answer. I simply found this interesting.

I moved to U.S from Finland and I disagree with this author. Social services paid by high taxes cause under supply and excess demand.

My mother had ovarian cancer but due to long lines for surgery (you know that "free healthcare"?) she had to go to a private doctor. But since we assumed that in Finland people don't have to save for future illness, we had not saved for such incidents. It was not free.

On education I speak from a personal experience. I went through the education system all the way to high school after which I came to U.S college. Finnish education system is all about good averages for the sake of equality: best student are held back because it's not fair fair for poor students to fall back. And since there are no private schools, best students rarely reach their potential.

And here's another conundrum that's associated with public education and healthcare: tax payers finance the education of doctors who move to work to private sector resulting in double cost for tax-payers: we have to pay twice for healthcare if we have to go to private sector due to long waiting lines. That's the future of Obama Care.

Let's talk about Finnish labor markets. Finland is yet to record economic growth since the financial crisis. While other countries have taken tough structural reforms, Finland still has strict labor laws and overly generous welfare system. In fact young people can receive more monthly state assistance than from entry level employment. And if youngsters want to enter labor markets, labor unions prevent them with red tape.

Therefore I must say that the author has little understanding about this topic.