It was the fall of 2013, and as a video producer for the University of Minnesota athletic department, he was working late one night early in the football season when he came up with an idea that would ...

Minnesota has resorted to one of the Internet's funniest memes as a new way to distract kickers. Introducing the dramatic gopher. You’ve probably seen his videos on YouTube. It’s a gopher that turns ...

Forget waving your arms behind the goalposts: Minnesota has come up with the greatest way ever to distract opposing field goal kickers. [See also: PHOTOS: College football's hottest cheerleaders] ...

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of Traditionally Weird, a weekly series on the oddities and eccentricities of college football, from mascots to rivalries to student-section rituals and ...

Kicking field goals at Minnesota’s TFC Bank Stadium involves facing some rather intimidating competition. No, not the fans, the giant Gopher – it’s actually a prairie dog – on the video board behind ...