The Gophers were playing a two-game series against Kansas during U.S. Bank Stadium’s small March window for baseball. The home team came back from seven runs down and won 10-8 on Tuesday night.
Things didn’t go quite as well during Game 2, although the Gophers communications staff did lead off its game report with a ray of sunshine:
“Junior Easton Richter went 1-for-4 with a double for the Minnesota Golden Gophers in a 29-1 loss to the Kansas Jayhawks on Wednesday.”
Who could have imagined that in fewer than 12 hours that would no longer stand as the silliest passage to be found among fresh material at Gophersports.com?
The challenge was where to start with Coyle’s silliness:
Let’s check that one: Talking Big Ten, it actually has been the last 28 years since the last championship. And they took that one away from us in 1997 because too many of Clem Haskins’ players turned in the same paper for health class on the menstrual cycle that was written by office worker Jan Gangelhoff.