By all accounts the new University of Minnesota president, Robert Bruininks, is a respected educator who will do a fine job as leader of the state largest university...

...MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Integrity. Honesty. Fairness. Those are the recurring themes used to describe to Joel Maturi, the new University of Minnesota athletic director, no matter who you ask. Bobby Kramig, who saw his men's soccer team at Miami...

...ideal candidate -- Joel Maturi. We are quite frankly overjoyed with the choice of Maturi, a Chisholm native, as the new University of Minnesota athletic director. And we say so not solely out of parochial pride, although we readily confess to...

The Verndale Pirates football program owns a storied past.

With the new University of Minnesota football stadium unofficially dubbed "The Bank," there is one obvious question: Is it a good public investment...