Chip Scoggins
Columnist
SportsChip Scoggins is a sports columnist and enterprise writer for the Minnesota Star Tribune. A graduate of the University of Missouri journalism school, Scoggins worked at newspapers in Texas, Connecticut, North Carolina and Chicago before joining the Minnesota Star Tribune in 2000. He has been named Minnesota's Sportswriter of the Year four times by the National Sports Media Association.
Latest from Chip Scoggins
Scoggins: Olympic hockey teams are full of star players. What if someone gets hurt?
Bill Guerin runs the Wild and the U.S. team at the Winter Games, and says “there’s no sense worrying about it.”
February 3, 2026
Gophers men's basketball coach Niko Medved inspired by family
Medved’s father, Miro, raised him after a 4,700-mile journey from the former Yugoslavia to Minnesota.
January 31, 2026
Scoggins: Adofo-Mensah’s draft failures led to Vikings GM’s ouster
The Vikings’ struggles to add young impact players forced the team to spend heavily in free agency the past few years.
January 30, 2026
Scoggins: I was wrong about Sam Darnold. The Vikings should have kept him.
The Seahawks are in Super Bowl LX because the former Vikings quarterback proved he’s capable of performing in the clutch.
January 27, 2026
From West Point to war to Wall Street to the NHL to the NBA: Matthew Caldwell’s road to Minnesota
The new Timberwolves and Lynx CEO comes from a Stanley Cup champion to an organization looking to build a new arena.
January 27, 2026
Scoggins: Hoiberg making another name for himself at 20-0 Nebraska
The university was patient with the former Timberwolves player and executive, and that patience has been rewarded with a 20-0 record.
January 25, 2026
Scoggins: Wolves’ current rut shows need to act at trade deadline
The void at point guard is obvious, but the bigger issue is that they lack another reliable scoring option off the bench beyond Naz Reid.
January 24, 2026
Scoggins: Indiana’s CFP title sends college football into new realm
The transfer portal, name, image and likeness payments and revenue sharing have leveled the sport’s playing field in ways previously unimaginable.
January 20, 2026
Scoggins: St. Thomas basketball coach Johnny Tauer gets key assist in form of Nick Janowski
The son of Tauer’s old pickup point guard at Wisconsin is one of the Tommies’ top scorers.
January 15, 2026
Buzzer-beating three-pointer lifts Wisconsin past Gophers 78-75
After Cade Tyson tied the game for Minnesota with four seconds left, John Blackwell hit the game-winner for the Badgers.
January 14, 2026
Scoggins: Koi Perich is headed elsewhere, and, hey, that’s just how college football works
The Gophers standout safety from Esko gave fans a belief in the program, but big money is out there and you can’t blame players for chasing it.
January 8, 2026
Scoggins: Gophers men’s basketball team knocks off No. 19 Iowa 70-67
First-year coach Niko Medved remains unbeaten at Williams Arena this season as the U improves to 3-1 in Big Ten play.
January 7, 2026
