gopher

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When the New England Patriots signed Mike Vrabel as a young linebacker in 2001, they sent a gopher from the team’s personnel department to scoop him up at the airport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Five years ago, according to the report, the city was in the middle of the pack at 49th, only to sink steadily into a gopher hole.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

Its two baseball fields were so pockmarked by gopher holes that even walking over them was difficult.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024

But because the dusky gopher frog helps control insect populations and prevent pest outbreaks in longleaf pine forest ponds, its extinction would again trigger a number of negative effects that may become unstoppable.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023

But as time went on the gopher began to be a little impatient, for no female appeared.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck