College football got underway in the FBS division on Thursday night, and Minnesota has brought back the “Dramatic Chipmunk” meme to get into opposing kickers' heads as it took on TCU. TCU did miss a ...

Jeers and booing are customary at sporting events to help psyche out the visiting team. But now a sensational meme is being used to distract the competition. The Minnesota Golden Gophers have ...

2013: The art of distracting free-throw shooters at college basketball games is well practiced. But the art of distracting field goal kickers at college football games, well, isn’t: many teams’ ...

I never thought I’d see humans having more head-turning drama than the dramatic chipmunk, but on this week’s episode of V, it happened. You never saw so much chipmunk packed into one tiny scene of ...

The Minnesota Golden Gophers aren't accused of tampering with their footballs, but they do stand accused of attempting to deflate the skills of an opposing kicker by distracting him with a chipmunk.

is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. A decade ago, a five-second clip of a prairie dog went viral. “Dramatic Chipmunk,” as it was erroneously titled, ...