Tales from the Minnesota Gophers: A Collection of the by Ray Christensen,Dave Mona
By Ray Christensen,Dave Mona
In Tales from the Minnesota Gophers Sideline, Ray Christensen tells approximately two hundred stories from all eleven men’s activities on the collage of Minnesota. The emphasis is basically at the final half the 20 th century, within which time Christensen did the radio play-by-play of Golden Gopher soccer for fifty consecutive seasons, 510 video games, and U of M basketball for forty five directly seasons, 1,309 video games. Christensen, a broadcasting award member of the school soccer corridor of popularity, tells tales starting from dramatic victories to extra lighthearted, funny occasions that mix to shape an enormous Ten tapestry, with the college of Minnesota at its core.
From the Minnesota wrestlers’ extraordinary comeback for a 2001 NCAA championship to the Gophers’ game-ending box targets that ended in outstanding upsets to the golfing team’s string of birdies that enabled the squad to make the minimize and James McLean to trap the NCAA person crown, the e-book covers all of it. ideal for the bookshelf of any fan of Gophers athletics!
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