https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/71/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-michael-tonkin/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1588Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gophers-try-to-right-ship-with-lineup-change-against-badgers/After suffering their most disheartening loss of the year -- a 52-50 defeat at Penn State -- the Minnesota Golden Gophers got a well-timed off week to right their minds, practice their fundamentals and contemplate new rotations.   As first reported on Richard Pitino's radio show, the head coach i...1586Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/grading-the-graders-and-players-vikings-defense/The Minnesota Vikings defense clearly led the way for the Vikings near-playoff berth after the team went through a string of injuries on the offensive side of the ball, and at one point were the top defense in the NFL.   Last week, we went over how different organizations and statistics ranked th...1583Fri, 20 Jan 2017 07:40:18 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-minnesota-twins-will-win-80-games-in-2017/That’s right, you heard it here first -- the Minnesota Twins will win 80 games in the 2017 season. This isn’t a hot take to generate clicks and it isn’t a convoluted stance that’ll end up on Cold Takes Exposed; I genuinely believe with all of my heart that this team is talented enough to win 80 ga...1580Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:35:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vertical-minnesota-timberwolves-actively-shopping-ricky-rubio/According to Adrian Wojnarowki at Yahoo's The Vertical, the Minnesota Timberwolves are actively shopping point guard Ricky Rubio.   "The Timberwolves have attached Rubio to multiple offers with Shabazz Muhammad to several teams around the NBA, league sources said," writes Wojnarowski. "Minnesota...1579Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/halfway-through-the-season-minnesota-timberwolves-are-a-sisyphean-task-away-from-the-playoffs/For a crime against the gods...he was condemned to an eternity at hard labor. And frustrating labor at that. For his assignment was to roll a great boulder to the top of a hill. Only every time Sisyphus, by the greatest of exertion and toil, attained the summit, the darn thing rolled back down aga...1575Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/grading-the-graders-and-players-vikings-offense/After a disappointing season, the Minnesota Vikings offense clearly needs help. It may benefit the team that Pat Shurmur is the now-permanent offensive coordinator, and offensive line investments should provide significant assistance—but finding extra efficiencies elsewhere could mean the differen...1572Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:00:24 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-avoid-arbitration-with-all-four-players-eligible/The Minnesota Twins have avoided arbitration with the last four players they had eligible prior to going to trial. According to Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, right-hander Ryan Pressly’s deal was hammered out just after the noon deadline, while the other three players signed prior t...1570Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-notebook-three-signings-new-broadcasters-and-a-summer-concert-announced/The Minnesota Twins added a pair of pitchers with significant MLB time to their stable when they announced they had signed righties Nick Tepesch and Ryan Vogelsong to minor-league deals. Both deals have invitations to spring training, with each pitcher having a shot to break camp with the big-leag...1566Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/instant-reaction-no-24-gophers-humbled-against-michigan-state/There had been very few speed bumps to this point in the Minnesota Golden Gophers' season. A 15-2 record earned them a Top 25 ranking this week, and even the two losses on the ledger were close games against quality opponents. It was safe to say the Gophers had yet to encounter anything resembling...1564Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/19-timberwolves-avoid-last-place-beat-mavericks-101-92/The Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Dallas Mavericks 101-92 to advance to a 12-26 record and avoid falling to last place in the Western Conference.   Karl-Anthony Towns outscored the Mavericks 20-19 in the first quarter and finished with 34 points and 11 rebounds. Ricky Rubio finished with 13 poi...1560Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/x-factor-akeem-springs-showing-gophers-how-to-win/When Charles Buggs opted to transfer in June of 2016, graduate transfer Akeem Springs became the lone senior expected to see minutes in the upcoming Minnesota Golden Gophers season.   That might be a heavy burden to carry for some, but not Springs. He seems just as comfortable in that role as he...1557Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/17-utah-jazz-go-on-11-0-run-beat-minnesota-timberwolves-late-in-4th-quarter/The Minnesota Timberwolves "won the third quarter" 32-22 and held a lead well into the fourth quarter in Saturday's game, but the Utah Jazz went on an 11-0 run to end the contest to win 94-92.   "We have to understand how different the 4th quarter is, and you have to be disciplined," said head co...1555Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gophers-nearing-top-25-konate-growing-comfortable-pitino-advises-fleck/Down by seven in the second half of two consecutive Big 10 road games, the Minnesota Gophers could’ve folded.   Instead, a pair of comebacks has them positioned to enter the Top 25 with a win Sunday over Ohio State (0-2 in conference play).   “I like if you can find a way to play the disrespect...1554Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-announce-spring-training-invitees-sign-three-to-milb-deals/On Friday, the Minnesota Twins announced their first wave of invitations to Spring Training. In addition to every player on the 40-man roster, teams invite a number of additional players in an attempt to give them an extended look with the big-league team before deciding what to do with them for t...1553Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/inman-minnesota-vikings-mock-draft-1-0/After a grueling ending to what was once a promising start to the 2016 season, it's time to officially put that behind us, ending the first chapter in the US Bank Stadium Era.   After losing his starting quarterback to what can only be described as a freak accident during non-contact drills, Mike...1552Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:41:03 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/win-against-purdue-gave-gophers-validation-now-they-must-sustain-it/Head coach Richard Pitino said the critical word was “Respond” heading into a road matchup with 15th-ranked Purdue. And respond they did.   The Golden Gophers were fresh off a heartbreaking conference opener in which they blew a 15-point lead against Michigan State and failed on two game-winning...1546Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-hector-santiago/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1543Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wolves-cant-contain-mccollum-fall-to-blazers-95-89/The Timberwolves went into Sunday's matchup hoping to gain ground in the Western Conference standings with a win at home over the Portland Trail Blazers, a team playing without its best player in Damian Lillard.   CJ McCollum, who started at point guard in Lillard's stead, made sure that didn't h...1540Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-rout-bears-in-season-finale-finish-500/Takeaways, defensive scores, special teams plays and efficient offense. The formula that led the Minnesota Vikings to a 5-0 start -- and abandoned them during their 2-8 late-season swoon -- returned on New Year's Day as Minnesota took an early lead and never looked back, soundly beating the Chicag...1539Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:10:43 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/there-are-protesters-hanging-from-us-bank-stadium/In a stranger than fiction subplot to Sunday's regular season finale, two protesters, Karl Zimmerman and Sen Holiday, per a series of tweets from Brian Murphy of the Pioneer Press, rappelled from a beam behind US Bank Stadium's north end zone and unfurled a banner with US Bank's logo and the singl...1538Sun, 01 Jan 2017 13:41:06 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/theres-about-to-be-another-asiata-in-the-nfl/Minnesota Vikings running back Matt Asiata had to pay his dues to make an NFL roster. The former Utah star did not get drafted and was unemployed his first year out of college after the Vikings released him from their practice squad. For a time, he resorted to driving a forklift for work.   Asiat...1537Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/captain-munnerlyn-media-good-guy/Captain Munnerlyn is still lobbying for the NFL to create a Pro Bowl spot for slot cornerbacks. Until that time, he'll have to settle for accolades awarded by the local media.   Munnerlyn won his second consecutive Korey Stringer Media Good Guy award on Wednesday, the first back-to-back winner si...1535Wed, 28 Dec 2016 13:27:41 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/postgame-sound-from-minnesotas-overtime-loss-to-michigan-state/In case you missed it, here is the live blog with analysis of the Gophers' 75-74 overtime loss to Michigan State. Minnesota lost a 13-point second half lead and missed on a pair of chances to win the game at the regulation and overtime buzzers. It was their fourth consecutive loss in a Big 10 open...1532Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/live-blog-gophers-host-spartans-to-kick-off-big-ten-play/PREGAME   Greetings from Williams Arena, where it's expected to be a near-packed house for Minnesota's highly-anticipated conference opener against Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans.   These aren't the typically-dominant Spartans one might expect. Izzo's group is 8-5, coming off a loss tw...1531Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000