With the Gophers men’s basketball team playing at Purdue on Wednesday, new head coach Niko Medved shared an old story this week about an interaction with legendary Boilermakers coach Gene Keady.

In 1994, Purdue traveled to Minneapolis on the eve of a Big Ten Conference game. A late flight and scheduling conflict kept them from practicing at Williams Arena, so Medved, then a Gopher student manager, had to open up the Bierman Athletic Building for the Boilermakers to hold a practice.

Purdue assistant coaches and players went to watch film beforehand, leaving Keady and Medved on the court alone. They started playing a game of H-O-R-S-E.

“I’m gonna say that I had the lead,” Medved shared on the KFAN coaches show recorded Monday. “… I had maybe ‘H,’ and he had, like ‘R,’ and then the team came out, so I was gonna win.”

Medved’s own coaching career wouldn’t start for a few years, while Keady was in his 14th year at Purdue and was routinely making NCAA Tournament appearances. Keady would go on to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023, but Medved said wasn’t nervous that night.

“It would have been awesome. I would have taken pride, absolutely,” Medved said, then joked. “I might have even talked a little trash.”

Medved doesn’t remember what he and Keady talked about between shots, but the experience left a lasting impression on him. He recalls how Keady might have been “grumpy” about the scheduling changes.

“I do remember that as a young guy in the business, you’re kind of starstruck,” Medved told the Pioneer Press. “He is one of the best coaches. It’s also, for me, going through the experience and getting to meet all those guys, what you really realize is people from the outside can seem larger than life, but what you really realize is they’re just human beings like everybody else.”

That Keady team in 1993-94 was led by Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson, and Purdue went on that spring to win the first of three straight Big Ten regular season championships.

This year, Purdue (8-1, 1-0 Big Ten) is ranked sixth in the nation, but were No. 1 before a 81-58 home loss to then-No. 10 Iowa State on Saturday. Keady was in attendance at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind.

Last Wednesday, Medved led Minnesota (5-4, 1-0) to an upset of then-22nd-ranked Indiana 73-64 for their first win in a Big Ten opener since 2017.

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Rebecca Noecker officially announced her campaign on Tuesday for the District 5 seat on the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners.

St. Paul City Council member Rebecca Noecker, Ward 2. (Courtesy of the City of St. Paul)

Noecker, who is currently the president of the St. Paul City Council, will have to unseat longstanding Commissioner Rafael Ortega to win the District 5 seat next November. The district covers Mac–Groveland, Highland Park, West Seventh, downtown St. Paul, Battle Creek and the West Side.

Noecker, who was first elected to the city council in 2015, issued a written campaign announcement on Tuesday calling herself a “collaborative leader” and said she is running to “bring additional transparency, renewed partnership and urgent action to the work of the county.” She said her top priorities include economic and workforce development, downtown revitalization, transportation, childcare and housing.

Ortega, who has expressed his intent on running for re-election next year, was first elected to the county board in 1994, which marked the first time a person of color had ever served on the board.

The seven-member board oversees the county budget, which includes spending for the county sheriff’s office and county jail, the county attorney’s office, Ramsey County Social Services, the county’s suburban library system, Public Works and other departments.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology.

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OpenAI said Dresser will oversee global revenue strategy and “help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations.”

Dresser had already spent more than a decade at Salesforce when the software pioneer announced in 2020 it was buying work-chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion. She helped integrate Slack into the software company before Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff picked her as CEO in 2023.

Salesforce said in a statement that it was “grateful for Denise’s leadership during her 14 years at Salesforce.” Rob Seaman, Slack’s chief product officer, will take over her responsibilities on an interim basis.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman earlier this month set off a “code red” alert in an internal email to employees to improve its flagship product, ChatGPT, and delay other product developments.

OpenAI first released ChatGPT just over three years ago, sparking global fascination and a commercial boom in generative AI technology and giving the San Francisco-based startup an early lead. But the company faces increased competition with rivals, including Google, which last month unleashed Gemini 3, the latest version of its own AI assistant.

Altman has said ChatGPT now has more than 800 million weekly users. But the company, valued at $500 billion, doesn’t make a profit and has committed more than $1 trillion in financial obligations to the cloud computing providers and chipmakers it relies on to power its AI systems.

The risk that OpenAI won’t make enough money to fulfill the expectations of backers like Oracle and Nvidia has amplified investor concerns about an AI bubble.

OpenAI makes revenue from premium subscriptions to ChatGPT, but most users get the free version. OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, in October, an attempt to compete with Google’s Chrome as more internet users rely on AI to answer their questions. But OpenAI hasn’t yet tried to sell ads on ChatGPT, which is how Google makes money from its dominant search business.

By ERIC TUCKER

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors.

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An order issued over the weekend by a federal judge in Washington barred the Justice Department at least temporarily from accessing computer files belonging to Daniel Richman, a close Comey friend and Columbia University law professor who prosecutors see as a central player in any potential case against the former FBI director.

Prosecutors moved Tuesday to quash that order, calling Richman’s request for the return of his files a “strategic tool to obstruct the investigation and potential prosecution.” They said the judge had overstepped her bounds by ordering Richman’s property returned to him and said the ruling had impeded their ability to proceed with a case against Comey.

The Justice Department alleges that Comey used Richman to share information with the news media about his decision-making during the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Prosecutors charged the former FBI director in September with lying to Congress by denying that he had authorized an associate to serve as an anonymous source for the media.

That indictment was dismissed last month after a federal judge in Virginia ruled that the prosecutor who brought the case, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed by the Trump administration. But the ruling left open the possibility that the government could try again to seek charges against Comey, a longtime foe of President Donald Trump. Comey has pleaded not guilty, denied having made a false statement and accused the Justice Department of a vindictive prosecution.

After the case was thrown out, Richman filed a motion that sought the return of his computer records, which the Justice Department obtained through search warrants in 2019 and 2020 as part of a media leak investigation that was later closed without charges.

Richman and his lawyers say that even after that investigation ended, the Justice Department continued for years to hold onto all the materials it had collected from Richman’s computer, email and iCloud accounts despite those files containing a “significant quantum of privileged information.”

Justice Department officials searched the files this year for communications between Comey and Richman that could be used to build a case against Comey. But Richman and his lawyers say prosecutors conducted new, warrantless searches that went beyond the scope of the warrants and retained his files for years without any legitimate purpose.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sided with Richman’s lawyers and issued a temporary restraining order that required the Justice Department to return the files and to no longer access them. The Justice Department challenged that order ruling, calling Richman’s request for his materials “a transparent effort to suppress evidence in the Comey matter.”

Prosecutors said Richman’s motion had “effectively enjoined the government from investigating and potentially prosecuting Comey.

“But federal courts cannot enjoin federal criminal prosecutions; a civil plaintiff cannot circumvent bedrock federal criminal procedure via an equitable proceeding like this one,” they said. “So the Court should dissolve its temporary restraining order and deny Petitioner’s motion.”

In response to the Justice Department’s objections, Kollar-Kotelly did not immediately lift her order but did allow for further filings from both sides. She signaled her position that Richman should be given a chance to review the materials and assert any attorney-client privilege claims he thinks are necessary.