am.mn logoUniversity of Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson has had his problems with Title IX rules requiring equity for women’s athletics. Now he has trouble with titles and equity of a different sort. After the Minnesota Daily revealed a web of wrestlers buying, selling and renting properties near campus, the U’s top attorney is looking into real estate transactions involving Robinson and current and former team members that might violate intercollegiate regulations. One of the athletes in the Daily report shows off the house he owns in a 2007 video that claims half the team was living there at the time.

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

MINNEAPOLIS: Kelliher donors paid for DFL list. Her guv-race rivals are outraged that House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher got campaign contributors to pay the DFL for a database — with the DFL’s OK. [Minnesota Public Radio]

BEMIDJI: Guns can breathe easy. If elected governor, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak wouldn’t push for tighter laws on firearms. [Bemidji Pioneer]

ROCHESTER: High-speed rail “must connect Rochester — period.” Tough talk, but that’s what Rybak said at Daube’s Cakes and Bakery to finish off three days’ campaigning across the state. [Rochester Post-Bulletin]

ST. PAUL: Dems propose patch for indigent health care. For once, a Band Aid approach is just what’s needed. [St. Paul Pioneer Press]

STATEWIDE: Follow Brazil’s lead. The state agriculture commissioner likes the ethanol requirements imposed by the government there. [Capitol Chatter]

NORTH OF REMER: Sasquatch you lookin’ at? Something seven feet tall and hairy traipsed past a camera in the North Woods, and the resulting photo has the Northern Minnesota Bigfoot Research Team excited. [Star Tribune; Bemidji Pioneer]