The Gophers had 21 total players from the 2025 football team enter the transfer portal this winter — none more high profile than Koi Perich.

Perich, a rising junior from Esko, Minn., committed to  Oregon on Monday night. The two-time all-Big Ten safety, return man and part-time offensive player is staying in the Big Ten, but it’s a powerhouse Minnesota won’t have to play in 2026 nor ’27.

Minnesota Gophers defensive back Koi Perich (3) is photographed during the team’s NCAAA football media day in Minneapolis on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

At Minnesota, Perich had a great true freshman season, but experienced a dip during his sophomore campaign. He went from five interceptions to one and his Pro Football Focus grade dropped from 88.9 to 62.4 over the two years.

But Perich remains extremely talented. He can make splash plays and totaled over 1,200 defensive snaps at the U. He could continue to develop and cause Minnesota and its fanbase to lament his exit. There is precedent here.

Former Gophers running back Bucky Irving left the U for the Ducks in 2022 and went on to have two 1,000-yard seasons in Eugene, Ore., before featuring for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL.

Besides Perich, two other departing Gophers are staying in the conference. To-be redshirt sophomore running back Fame Ijeboi said last Friday he will move to Purdue, and redshirt junior receiver Malachi Coleman committed to Wisconsin on Monday.

Ijeboi was Minnesota’s second leading rusher a season ago, stepping in for injured starter Darius Taylor. Ijeboi with 441 yards and two touchdowns of 97 carries, adding 12 catches for 54 yards and one score.

Coleman has freakish traits at 6-foot-5 and 200 pounds, but the former Nebraska player and top 100 national recruit coming out high school in Lincoln, Neb., didn’t produce much in two years with the Cornhuskers and his one at Minnesota. He had five catches for 83 yards in eight games this fall.

Both Coleman and Ijeboi will have the chance at revenge games next season. The U play the Boilermakers next fall, and of course, the Gophers play the Badgers for Paul Bunyan’s Axe every November.

The rest of the Gophers outgoing players have committed to smaller schools or are still looking for their next spot.

Cornerback Za’Quan Bryan, who was a starter at the U until November, is headed to South Florida.

Cornerback Jaylen Bowden and defensive end Steven Curtis — two members of the 2025 portal class who didn’t work out at the U — are going down to the Group of Five conferences: Bowden to East Carolina and Curtis to North Texas.

Detroit Lakes safety Ethan Carrier is going to South Dakota; punter Caleb McGrath, of Eastview High School, is off to North Dakota State; running back Tre Berry has linked up with Tennessee State.

Twelve other players have not yet decided on their next school. The notables on that list are quarterback Jackson Kollock, receivers Kenric Lanier, Cristian Driver and Legend Lyons, offensive linemen Kahlee Tafai and Reese Tripp of Mantorville, Minn.

This is, in part, a cautionary tale. Heading into the portal doesn’t always result in the grass being greener on the other side.

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The Trump administration is ending protected immigration for Somali immigrants with Temporary Protected Status.

“Temporary means temporary,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to The Associated Press.

DHS told Fox News separately that Somalis with Temporary Protected Status must leave the U.S. by March 17, when existing protections expire. The TPS move comes amid Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, where many Somalis have U.S. citizenship. Trump has targeted Somali immigrants with racist rhetoric and accused them of defrauding federal programs.

A congressional report last year estimated the Somali TPS population at 705 people. Noem insisted that circumstances in Somalia “have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.”

Located in the horn of Africa, Somalia is one of the world’s poorest nations and has for decades been beset by chronic strife and insecurity exacerbated by multiple natural disasters, including severe droughts.

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“Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams is dead at 68.

The satirist from Windham, New York, died following a long battle with prostate cancer, according to his ex-wife, Shelly Miles. She announced the news on Tuesday with a statement Adams prepared prior to his death during a live stream on his YouTube channel, Coffee with Scott Adams.

“I had an amazing life,” the statement said in part. “I gave it everything I had.”

The comic artist frequently gave fans updates about his condition, which had spread to his bones, after announcing in May that he expected “to be checkin’ out from this domain sometime this summer.”

Adams outlived that prognosis with support from admirers including members of the Trump Administration, whom he reached out to in November hoping for expedited treatment options.

“Scott, how do I reach you?” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded almost immediately. “The President wants to help.”

But Adams told fans during a Monday video conference posted to X, “I’m pretty close to my end date.”

His ex-wife Shelly Adams told TMZ on Monday that Adams was in hospice care and likely had days to live.

The right-wing illustrator announced in May that he was being treated for prostate cancer, which had metastasized to his bones. He started 2026 with a New Year’s Day post conceding he’d been told there’s almost no chance he’d recover.

“It’s all bad news,” Adams lamented.

Adams credited “Peanuts” creator Charles Schultz as a significant influence when he was a child. He was the middle child of three born to a postal clerk and a real estate agent. Adams’ biography also credits him with having been his high school valedictorian. He went no to study economics at Hartwick College in Oneonta.

“My problem looking back was that I had absolutely no role model or mentor in my small town to ask about how to go about achieving the success I wanted,” he said in a 2014 interview published by the San Francisco Gate.

He later studied at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Adams became one of the most celebrated comic strip artists in the country with his “Dilbert” cartoons, which explored the ups, downs and absurdities of working in an office. The strip launched in 1989, but was pulled from many publications in March 2023 after the artist referred to Black people as a “hate group” he tried to avoid.

“I don’t think it makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore,” Adams told supporters in an online video. “So I’m going to back off on being helpful to Black America because it doesn’t seem like it pays off.”

He later claimed he was trying to be provoke further conversation about the topic, but the damage was done. Hundreds of media outlets immediately cut ties with him.

Adams explained his fall from mainstream acceptance on Dilbert.com where he sporting described himself as a cartoonist.

“If you believe the news, it was because I am a big ol’ racist,” he wrote

Adams asked fans last week to share with his biographer how his work may have been inspirational to others. One taker was Fox News pundit Greg Gutfeld who credited Adams for changing his life.

“There’s no one like you out there, but you’ve helped mentor many who now try,” Gutfeld posted on X.

By STEPHEN GROVES

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton say they will refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena for them to testify in an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

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The Clintons are slamming a Republican-controlled committee’s attempts as “legally invalid” as GOP lawmakers prepare contempt of Congress proceedings against them. In a letter released on social media Tuesday, the Clinton’s tell the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Rep. James Comer, he’s on the cusp of a process “literally designed to result in our imprisonment.”

Comer says he’ll begin contempt of Congress proceedings next week. It potentially starts a complicated and politically messy process that Congress has rarely reached for.

“No one’s accusing the Clintons of any wrongdoing. We just have questions,” Comer told reporters after Bill Clinton did not show up for a scheduled deposition at House offices Tuesday.

He added, “Anyone would admit they spent a lot of time together.”

Clinton has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein but had a well-documented friendship with Epstein, a wealthy financier, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Republicans have zeroed in on that relationship as they try to wrestle control over demands for a full accounting of Epstein’s wrongdoing.

Multiple former presidents have voluntarily testified before Congress, but none has been compelled to do so.

Comer also indicated that the committee would not attempt to compel testimony from President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, saying that it could not force a sitting president to testify.