https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/57/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gophers-quarterback-battle-remains-murky-after-17-7-win-in-opener/The Minnesota Golden Gophers opened up the 2017 college football season at TCF Bank Stadium winning a slugfest over the Buffalo Bulls, 17-7.   "I loved seeing all those freshmen out there. I don't know if it was required for orientation, but I was really proud of our student body," said head coac...2831Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/eric-curry-tears-acl-will-miss-upcoming-season/The Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team has sky-high expectations heading into the 2017-18 season. But that enthusiasm was dampened Thursday afternoon as the Gophers announced that backup center/forward Eric Curry will miss the upcoming campaign with a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus.   Cur...2830Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-wild-sign-ryan-malone-to-a-professional-try-out/The Minnesota Wild announced on Thursday that they are bringing in forward Ryan Malone on a Professional Try Out (PTO) for their upcoming training camp.     Malone, 37, is an 11-year NHL veteran who has not played since the 2014-15 season. In 647 career NHL games, the Pittsburgh native has...2829Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/830-game-notes-berrios-buries-white-sox-with-11-strikeouts-pair-of-rosario-bombs-in-11-1-win/The Minnesota Twins came into Wednesday night with a 68-63 record. It might not mean much, but the 1987 Twins also headed into Aug. 30 with an identical record, en route to the first World Series in the franchise’s post-Washington D.C. tenure.   That 1987 team also caught fire late in the season,...2826Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/remington-the-top-100-nhl-goalie-masks-10-1/The Top-100 masks series ends today. I've had as much fun actually writing these articles as I had putting together my list, which is saying something. It's a passionate topic for me, and hopefully that passion has come through a little bit in this series.   See masks 100-91 here, including a Hal...2825Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/p-j-fleck-confirms-antoine-winfield-jr-to-start-thursday/Safety Antoine Winfield Jr. was cleared earlier in the week to play in the opener against Buffalo. Minnesota Golden Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck broke the news while doing an interview on WCCO radio.   Winfield was forced to leave practice because of a hamstring injury he suffered in practice on...2824Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/829-game-notes-silky-santana-polanco-power-guide-twins-to-68th-win-of-the-season/Players Weekend is over and it went by without Ervin Santana throwing a single pitch. He still stood true to his jersey nickname on Tuesday night at Target Field, however, as for five innings he performed Magic in a 6-4 win over the Chicago White Sox.   It was a nice bounce-back performance for S...2818Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:41:06 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/829-pregame-notes-santana-v-shields-rematch-injury-updates-afl-assignments/It’s sunny and warm at Target Field as the Minnesota Twins prepare to open a three-game set against the Chicago White Sox. It’ll be a pair of righties doing battle, as the Twins send Ervin Santana (3.24 ERA, 4.66 FIP in 169.1 innings) to the mound to tangle with James Shields (5.63 ERA, 6.13 FIP i...2817Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/remington-the-top-100-nhl-goalie-masks-20-11/The Top-100 Masks series is nearing its epic conclusion.   See Masks 30-21 here. 20. Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers   I know what you're thinking. "Blegh, the Yankees, I HATE those guys!" Well, that's fair, but this mask is one of many, many, many masks that Henrik Lundqvist has featured...2811Tue, 29 Aug 2017 08:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/watch-taylor-heinicke-scrambles-for-walk-off-two-point-conversion/It's not very often an NFL game comes down to an untimed down, but that's exactly what happened Sunday night between the Minnesota Vikings and San Francisco 49ers.   Having trailed by 14 points on four separate occasions, the Vikings got the ball down by seven at 31-24 with just over two minutes...2810Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/6-predictions-for-minnesota-vs-buffalo/It is a mere three days away, but the start of the Minnesota Gophers 2017 season is finally upon us, and new head coach P.J. Fleck will finally get to lead this team in actual football. With the opener right around the corner, it is time for some in-depth game predictions, as well as some gambling...2808Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-vikings-vs-san-francisco-49ers-what-to-watch-for/The third preseason game is typically lauded as the "dress rehearsal" for the regular season, and is often talked about as the exception to the rule that the "preseason doesn't matter."   This is in part because starters play a large portion of the third preseason game, though it should be acknow...2807Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wild-announce-this-is-our-ice-campaign/Many local sports fans know the Minnesota Wild have dubbed Minnesota as the “State of Hockey.” The team is taking it a step further with a "This Is Our Ice" campaign, the Wild announced Thursday.   The latest tradition calls for hockey fans across the land of 10,000 lakes to contribute water from...2805Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/molesky-blue-chip-players-in-the-nba/While the definition may vary depending on who you ask, the general understanding is that blue chip players are the ones who make the team what it is. That is, the players who can do everything and are the person standing between their organization's success and failure.   The blue chip player is...2803Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/guenthner-preseason-week-2-winners-losers/The season is creeping up as Week 2 of the preseason has completed. Here are some players who have risen up or fallen on their face during this past weekend.   WINNERS   RB Kareem Hunt, Chiefs   With Spencer Ware only getting one series, Hunt took the opportunity and ran with it. With a stat l...2802Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/remington-the-top-100-nhl-goalie-masks-30-21/We're getting to the really fun stuff on our list.   See Masks 40-31 here. 30. Byron Dafoe, Los Angeles Kings   This mask is like some kind of mythical unicorn in that I can't find a picture of Byron Dafoe actually wearing it, but lordy, I hope he did, because it's beautiful. Starting with t...2801Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/jayron-kearse-trying-to-be-less-cautious-in-year-2/Since drafting Harrison Smith in the first round of the 2012 draft, the Minnesota Vikings have decided to take the value approach at safety.   Under Mike Zimmer, the Vikings have amassed numerous late-round or undrafted safeties to partner with Smith. Fifth-round pick Robert Blanton, sixth-round...2800Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/reports-twins-to-promote-reliever-john-curtiss/Following Tuesday night's 4-1 win over the Chicago White Sox, the Minnesota Twins designated right-handed pitcher Tim Melville for assignment. That opened up a spot on the 40-man roster, and it sure sounds like right-handed reliever John Curtiss will be getting the call, as MLB.com's Rhett Bolling...2797Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/nba-news-kyrie-irving-heads-to-boston/The Cleveland Cavaliers finally get Kyrie Irving out of town by sending him to the Boston Celtics in exchange for Isaiah Thomas, Jae Crowder, Ante Zizic and the 2018 Brooklyn Nets' first-round pick. It's not hard to see the power shifting away from the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference.   Why t...2796Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/molesky-schedule-breakdown-game-by-game-gophers-predictions-part-2/Part one with the opening six games can be found here   Home against Illinois, Oct. 21   The Illinois offense was atrocious, scoring a meager 19.7 points per game last season, ranking them 125th in the country. The defense, for their part, gave up 31 points per game and 405 yards. While Lovie Sm...2788Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-top-100-nhl-goalie-masks-40-31/The top goalie mask series rolls on.   See the Top 50-41 masks here. 40. Linus Ullmark, Buffalo Sabres http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H4ya-fydHms/VlkoYJInStI/AAAAAAAAVmk/T8ModOnkbaU/s1600/ullmark1.jpg   The show-stealing minions from Despicable Me have appeared in every which way since the origina...2787Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-avoid-the-eclipse-shurmur-speaks-on-cook-o-line/The stars had aligned for the Minnesota Vikings to practice under the darkened skies while the moon moved in front of the sun Monday afternoon as part of a partial solar eclipse.   Alas, Vikings decision-makers opted to move the practice indoors.   Between the potential distraction, the possible...2786Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/820-game-notes-twins-score-nine-in-first-inning-deliver-colon-his-first-win-vs-diamondbacks/By the time the bottom of the first inning had concluded, Brian Dozier had walked twice, Eddie Rosario hit a grand slam in his second at-bat and the Minnesota Twins were 9-0.   All Bartolo Colon had to do to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks, the only club in the majors he does not have a win against...2780Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/past-minnesota-wild-number-switches/Last week, Matt Cullen decided to forego a chance at a three-peat with Pittsburgh to sign with the Wild for his potential final season in the NHL. Cullen had previously played for the Wild from 2010-13, and has since played for Nashville and Pittsburgh before deciding to return to his home state....2778Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/report-vikings-sign-underwhelming-rookie-qb-mitch-leidner/The Minnesota Vikings may have signaled that they aren't big fans of their current backup quarterback situation; aside from statements in pressers that reveal a lack of confidence in their backup situation, they've also signed former University of Minnesota quarterback Mitch Leidner.   Of 67 quar...2777Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000