St. John's University

Hundreds of people came out to St. John's University Friday for the firing ceremony of the largest wood burning kiln in North America -- the Johanna Kiln.

You're invited to hike in the woods at Saint John's this Sunday from 1 to 4 PM as you enjoy the fall colors, artwork, live music, nature activities, and more along the trails. Here's some of what you can expect along the trails during 'Collegeville Colors'. Bring your camera!

Thousands came out to Clemens Stadium early Saturday morning to welcome ESPN's SportsCenter during a live broadcast.

ESPN is coming to Collegeville. St. John's University has announced the ESPN "SportsCenter on the Road" show will broadcast live from Clemens Stadium next Saturday, September 26th. It will be from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m., prior to the Johnnie's 1:00 p.m. game versus St. Thomas.

The St. John's Baseball team lost 2-0 Thursday in an elimination game to UW-Whitewater in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. The Johnnies outhit Whitewater 8-6. Whitewater scored single runs in the 7th and 9th innings. Aaron Pfaff had 3 hits and Tom Druk had 2 hits for St. John's.

The St. John's baseball team lost 4-2 to Coe College of Iowa in La Crosse, Wisconsin today in their first game of the NCAA Division III tournament at the Midwest Regional. St. John's scored a run in the first inning but Coe came back with 2 runs in the 2nd inning and 2 more in the 4th.

St. John's head men's basketball coach Jim Smith talked with me on WJON today. Jim is the all-time winningest coach in Minnesota college basketball history with 786. Smith led his teams to seven MIAC titles, five MIAC playoff titles, nine trips to the NAIA tournament and eight trips to the NCAA Division III playoffs, most recently in 2007.

St. John's University has named their next head football coach. Current assistant coach, and 1981 St. John's Graduate, Gary Fasching becomes just the 16th head coach in the 102 year history of the Johnnie program.

St. John's University held the first of 3 Public Forums for the 3 finalist for the St. John's vacant head football coaching job. Eden Prairie Head Coach and 1979 St. John's graduate Mike Grant was the first to appear at the Public Forum at St. John's.

St. John's University has announced the three finalists to replace John Gagliardi as the next head football coach.

This is a very fitting story considering the school year is set to begin in less than a month. Just this week Forbes.com released their list of America's top 200 colleges. Find out the 6 Minnesota colleges that made the cut. Here is the criteria Forbes used to rank theses schools:  - 30% went to postgraduate success  - 27.5% went to stu ...