Jerry Kill, the new head football coach at the University of Minnesota calls himself a small-town guy who likes to work hard. Kill, currently coaching at Northern Illinois, will have to work very hard to convince skeptical fans that he's the right choice to lead the Gophers. Many were hoping a big-name coach would get the job.
Minnesota native Lindsey Vonn has turned into the Maria Sharapova of alpine skiing without matching the earning power of the world's highest-paid female athlete.
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Star Tribune sportswriter Phil Miller says Gopher fans were hoping for a big name when the U of M announced its new head football coach. Instead they got Jerry Kill -- a relative unknown from Northern Illinois University.
Minnesota athletic director
Joel Maturi on Sunday night agreed to
terms with Northern Illinois coach Jerry Kill on a five-year
contract to take over the downtrodden Golden Gophers.
Brett Favre has become something of a medical
expert through the years, a quarterback who has minored in pain
management as he has put together a streak of consecutive starts
that stands among the most impressive records in all of sports.
Qatar was selected as host of the 2022 World Cup,
beating out a bid by the United States to bring soccer's showcase
back to America for the first time since 1994.
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This Saturday is the 75th anniversary of the creation of one of college football's most famous trophies. Floyd of Rosedale goes each November to the winner of the Minnesota-Iowa game. On one level, the bronze pig is just another collegiate prize. But few people know it had its origins in a 1934 game with racial overtones.
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