Every Monday at 8:30am StarTribune sports writer Michael Rand stops into the Morning Show to share the latest news in Sports.

1) The Gophers football team lost a game it just couldn't afford to lose Saturday. The more things change the more they stay the same.

2) Sooooo... It's time to put all our sporting eggs in the winter teams' basket. The Wild won in a blowout Saturday. Gophers men's hockey is ranked number one in the country. And the Wolves are about to open their season Wednesday.

3) it's been four weeks and the Twins still don't have a manager. What's up with that?

Michael Rand writes about Sports for the StarTribune in his blog RandBall. You can also follow Michael on Twitter.