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Minnesota Football Team Ends Boycott Over Suspensions, Will Play Bowl Game
Two days after Minnesota football players announced they would boycott all football activities—including their upcoming bowl game—to protest the school’s suspension of 10 players, they have declared their boycott over. ...
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Minnesota Football Players Say They'll Boycott Bowl Game In Protest Of Mass Suspensions [Update]
A few days after 10 Minnesota Golden Gophers football players were suspended from the team’s upcoming trip to the Holiday Bowl, the rest of the team has responded. The Star Tribune reported this afternoon that the team will threaten to boycott the game in protest of the suspensions. The players’ “de...
Minnesota Suspends 10 Football Players For Alleged Involvement In Sexual Assault
In two weeks, Minnesota will head to San Diego to take on Washington State in the Holiday Bowl, but they’ll go without 10 of their players, including several starters in their secondary. The Star Tribune reported on the suspensions this evening, which apparently stem from an incident in September. F...
Twins Prospect Yorman Landa Dies In Car Accident
Minnesota Twins minor leaguer Yorman Landa died in a car accident last night in his native Venezuela. He was 22....
Hope Is Wearing Thin For The Vikings
Seemingly ages ago, the Minnesota Vikings were 5-0, sported the best defense in the league, and got a shocking amount of production from an offense led by the surprisingly competent Sam Bradford. Now the team’s 6-6 and losing ground in the playoff hunt, and Thursday night’s loss to the Cowboys offer...
Officials Missed A Huge Blow To Sam Bradford's Head On Game-Deciding Play
The Minnesota Vikings held Dak Prescott to his fewest yards passing in an NFL game and staged a late comeback against the Dallas Cowboys tonight, but they came up short on a late two-point conversion and lost, 17-15. After hitting Jerick McKinnon for a touchdown pass, Sam Bradford airmailed his two-...
Mike "Nuke The Gays" Priefer Will Coach The Vikings Tonight
Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer had emergency eye surgery last night, which means that special-teams coordinator Mike Priefer will step in as interim coach for tonight’s nationally televised game against the Cowboys. Mike Priefer ... where have we heard that name before?...
Karl-Anthony Towns Wrecked The Knicks, But It Wasn't Enough
The Minnesota Timberwolves are not a good basketball team. They are exciting, and all of their best players are liable to dunk on your head at any time, but they still look and feel more like a middling squad than a team sporting some of the best young talent the NBA has seen in a while. Karl-Anthon...
Hot Fucking Stove: Don't Touch The Stove It's Extremely Hot
Good news, friends: The Thanksgiving holiday brought us not just a bounty of meats, side dishes, and familial bonding, but also mildly interesting baseball transactions that could have anywhere from no to some impact on the upcoming season of “America’s pastime.”...
Government Officials Are Living It Up For Free At Publicly Funded Vikings Stadium
The five-person Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority was created to control and operate the Vikings’ new stadium on behalf of taxpayers, who coughed up half a billion dollars to build it. But it turns out that the MSFA members, along with other public officials, are being well taken care of by the ...
The Minnesota Timberwolves Are In A Weird Place Right Now
As an increasingly hopeless Wizards fan, I feel qualified to say this to everyone who’d hoped the early season would look more promising for the young Minnesota Timberwolves: this is just sorta what happens when a team is rich in talent but poor in, you know, really knowing how to play good NBA bask...
This Is Poetry
Never has a public execution been so beautiful as Zach LaVine’s efforts early in the Timberwolves’ bout against Phoenix tonight....
This Zach LaVine Dunk Is Some Extremely Good Shit
Zach LaVine and his teammates were having some fun after practice today, and that led to this dunk making it onto Andrew Wiggins’s Snapchat account:...
Karl-Anthony Towns Won't Stop Humiliating Defenders
Karl-Anthony Towns went for 27 points and 18 rebounds in a loss to the Celtics last night, and he got things started in what’s starting to become a familiar style....
Report: Adrian Peterson Could Be Back In A Month
Adrian Peterson’s career with the Vikings looked like it might have ended when he tore his meniscus in the second game of the season against the Packers. He had surgery two months ago, right after the injury, but even then, the prospects of return in 2016 looked bleak. Minimum recovery time from a “...
Vikings Plowing Over Fox Sound Guy, In Extreme Slow Motion
“It was the stupidest thing in 20 years doing this job,” Bernie Beaudry says. “I only saw the smoke. I didn’t see anybody coming, and then, boom!”...
Cordarrelle Patterson Wears Socks Of Himself Before Game, Returns Kickoff 104 Yards For TD
Before today’s game, Minnesota Vikings receiver/kick returner Cordarrelle Patterson wore socks with his image on the ankles. In the third quarter, he took a kickoff 104 yards for a touchdown. Are these two events related? You be the judge....
Tom Thibodeau Hasn't Changed
If you’re a Timberwolves fan, you no doubt enjoyed watching your team flex on the hapless Sixers on national TV last night. Karl-Anthony Towns undressed Joel Embiid multiple times, Andrew Wiggins hit shots from all over the floor, and the future once again looked bright. But if you watched the blowo...
Good Luck Trying To Keep Karl-Anthony Towns From Embarrassing You
Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot was projected to be an intriguing small forward in the NBA thanks to his smooth athleticism and impressive physical profile. However, in tonight’s game against the Wolves, he merely ended up like an intriguing bug splattered across the windshield after Karl-Anthony Towns dunk...