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Gophers in Insight Bowl Today

by kurtis   ::   posted on Dec. 31, 2008 - 7:09am

I think there's too many bowl games, and I don't think the Gophers deserve to be in one after their lousy finish, but the fact is that they'll face off against the Jayhawks in today's Insight Bowl, airing on the NFL Network, which I don't get. Does anyone care? Is anyone watching? Frankly, I think the Jayhawks with Gary Louris would be able to beat the Gophers. Yes, I know there's only four or five of them and one of them's a girl.

The Danger of Metaphorical Politics. And Football.

by Max Ross
posted on Sep. 08, 2008 - 4:58pm

This made my week. (It's Monday, though, so bear with me.) Back in 1999, the Washington Post had a contest in which readers were asked to submit the lamest analogies and metaphors they could come up with - I believe it's called the ‘Smorked Beef Rectum' award. For whatever reason, the competition was mentioned to me this weekend, and I checked out the shortlist, which is pretty fantastic.

The Long Bomb

by Craig Cox
posted on Sep. 25, 2003 - 11:00pm

The last time our Golden Gophers won a Big Ten football championship, none of this year’s players had been born. It’s possible that some of their parents hadn’t either. In 1967, we had a shifty quarterback named Curt Wilson, a bruising fullback from South St. Paul named Jim Carter, and an All-American defensive end in St. Louis Park’s Bob Stein. The team finished 8-2 and shared the conference title with Indiana and Purdue.

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