The museum has created a mock criminal lineup comparing five stuffed rodents alongside a stuffed Goldy Gopher. After looking at the five suspects, Compton said it is not unusual to conclude the rodent ...

Most of us have come to know Goldy Gopher, the beloved mascot of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, as a perpetually smiling character who never shies away from a photograph. But Goldy has a ...

Saturday during Minnesota's dominant 48-23 win over Maryland in Minneapolis, the team's mascot, Goldy Gopher, had multiple ...

The University of Minnesota Spirit Squad brought home two more national titles this weekend at the Cheerleading & Dance Team ...

Goldy Gopher was born a chipmunk. That’s because when George Grooms originally drafted the design in the 1940s that would become the University’s mascot, he lived in Iowa, where there were no gophers.

After trying out but not making the Gopher hockey team, coach Doug Woog encouraged Bernstein to be Goldy. "And I said, 'Great, I'll take it.' So, I became a large, smelly rodent," he said.