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High on links, low on commentary today....cause I'm hungry.
Gopher Football:
Joe Christenson at the Star Tribune gives us two few links today. This one is on the improving wide receiver corps.
This one is on the backup QB options and other freshmen.
Sid chimes in with some good quotes from Tracy Claeys on the improving defense.
Marcus Fuller at the Pioneer Press also talks about the backup QB situation. No Minions needed....yet
This tweet, and similar ones from Joe and Marcus are a good sign for the interior of the Gophers defensive line:
Steven Richardson was among FR who took reps today w/1st team D. Was impressed. Played strong in full team drills, got to QB twice #Gophers
— Nate Sandell (@NSandell) August 7, 2014
Speaking of Tweets, with the news that the Kevin Love trade to Cleveland for Andrew Wiggins and others is done, Peter Mortell tweeted this out this morning:
hey @22wiggins Gophers vs Eastern Illinois on August 28 at 6:00pm. I'll have a ticket waiting for you at will call
— Peter Mortell (@PMortell37) August 7, 2014
Gopher Football gives the Practice roundup from Yesterday.
They also added two tweets, one interesting, and one critically important:
With 1,720 additional temporary seats added to @TCFBankStadium, capacity for #Gophers games will now be 52,525.
— Minnesota Football (@GopherFootball) August 7, 2014
Coming soon. #BrickByBrick http://t.co/u6MEZrRWlv
— Minnesota Football (@GopherFootball) August 7, 2014
ITS BACK!!!!!
Good Chicago Tribune Article about Brock Vereen and his time with the Bears
Ryan Burns from Gopher Illustrated tweets on some recruiting ranking news:
I see this morning that @Rivals bumped #Gopher commits QB @PrinceOfThe66 and ILB @Texas_boy49 to three stars after showing well this summer.
— Ryan Burns (@RyanBurnsGI) August 7, 2014
Interesting ESPN.com article on the Power 5 coaches and future scheduling
The AP reports the Power 5 legislation has passed...more on that later I'm sure.
Finally in football, an interesting article from the Star Tribune on how the University of Minnesota wil lwork with the Vikings to attempt to keep the word "Redskins" out of TCF Bank Stadium when Washington plays at the Vikings in November. Please keep comments on this article PC. I'm sure you will also see more on this later.
Gopher Basketball:
Amelia Rayno from the Star Tribune has a few blogs posts. This one is on Joey King and his summer improvements.
This one is about Strength and Conditioning Coach Shaun Brown.
Gopher Women's Coach Marlene Stollings threw out the first pitch at the Twins game yesterday:
.@GophersWBB head coach Marlene @Stollings throws out the first pitch at Target Field. #MNTwins #Gophers pic.twitter.com/OgTWY5S8LY
— Twins Photography (@TwinsPics) August 6, 2014
Gopher Hockey:
Gophersports.com is doing a top ten Gopher Hockey Plays of the Year countdown. They are to #8 on the list which is Nate Condon's 100th Career Point in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Guessing #1 won;t be very anti-climatic this year...
Six Gopher Women's Hockey players will be going to the USA Hockey Women's National Festival next week in Lake Placid, NY. The festival will cut down the 69 players invited to 22 who will play in a series against Canada a week later in Calgary. There will be two teams an Under-18 and an Under-22. The roster here also includes four Gopher commits for future seasons that GopherSports can't discuss. They are Alex Gulstene, Patricia Marshall, Sophie Skarzynski and Alex Woken.
Finally, Nate Wells over at SB Nation College Hockey has a fun post about what a College Hockey hate map would look like. Good News? Its not all-Minnesota hate. Bad news. A LOT of people hate us...