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...body remains respectably taut, a gunnysack full of cantaloupes and cannonballs. The seamed and arid face, a slowly eroding riverbed, is as wide open as a gap-toothed grin. It is the map of an obstinate man with 737 doubles who still flings himself flat and breaststrokes like a gopher into second base...
Born and raised in the Gopher State, he’s hundreds of miles from home and playing in a hockey environment that is quite unlike the one he’s been used to. In comparison to the huge crowds and crazy fans of Minnesota, Bright Hockey Center presents a relatively calm ambience...
...When you go out with those three top players coming down at you, you just have to make sure you’re playing the body, keep them to the outside, make their shots go where Jody can easily make a save,” Gopher defenseman Lyndsay Wall said. “When they’re in close they have a high percentage of shooting and they can bury the puck easily...
...computer hackers, who loved nothing better than to stay up all night exploring its weblike connections and devising new and interesting things for people to do. They constructed elaborate fantasy worlds with Dungeons & Dragons themes. They built tools for navigating the Net -- like the University of Minnesota's Gopher, which makes it easy for Internet explorers to tunnel from one place on the network to another. Or like the programs whimsically named Archie, Jughead and Veronica, which allow users to locate a particular word or program from vast libraries of data available to Net users. More and more newsgroups were...
...learned voters will elect candidates nicknamed Gopher and Cooter, but they draw the line at Meathead...