https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/74/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/warne-trying-to-find-a-fit-for-brian-dozier/The Minnesota Twins don’t have to trade Brian Dozier. If there’s any takeaway from the rumor mill that is churning fast and furious this time of year, that should be it. There’s no guarantee the Twins will move their second baseman, and the report from the St. Paul Pioneer Press’ Mike Berardino su...1433Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/with-hunter-cuddyer-and-hawkins-falvey-and-lavine-aim-to-fix-not-torch-twins/For those who were hoping that chief baseball officer Derek Falvey and general manager Thad Levine were showing up to Target Field with dynamite and blow the Minnesota Twins up will be disappointed to see them holding calculators and looking at spreadsheets as they try to turn around what was once...1430Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-ervin-santana/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...1429Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wolves-struggle-late-lose-to-utah-112-103/The Minnesota Timberwolves were defeated by the Utah Jazz 112-103 on Monday night.   Utah separated themselves during the second quarter, and would go on to secure the lead by scoring 38 points on 13-of-20 shooting in the final frame.   George Hill and Gordon Hayward led the way with 24 points a...1428Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-trying-to-stay-confident-as-margin-for-error-dwindles/Since the Minnesota Vikings began a dismal post-bye stretch in which they’ve lost five out of six games, there's been a trendy phrase floating around the locker room.   ‘Everything is still in front of us.’   Team leaders have drawn from that well countless times over the past month and a half –...1427Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-minnesota-timberwolves-revolution-is-going-to-take-time/We’re striving to be a 48-minute team and we’re not close to that, there’s a lot of work to be done.   -- Tom Thibodeau at a Nov. 20 practice, six days before the start of the regular season   The Minnesota Timberwolves are a 36-minute team in a 48-minute league. If an NBA game were determined a...1424Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/live-tracking-vikings-vie-for-division-lead-against-lions/UPDATE (2:41): A lot to digest at the end there. Vikings convert a 3rd and 2 but have it waved off due to an illegal formation call, which I'm sure will get examined in the coming hours. Bradford then it forced into a tough throw on 3rd and 7 and has it picked by Darius Slay. Cordarrelle Patterson...1421Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/big-men-set-tone-coffey-takes-it-home-as-gophers-crush-arkansas/Against St. John's last Friday, the Minnesota Golden Gophers relied upon their guards in a comeback victory.   Tuesday against the SEC's Arkansas Razorbacks, the big men came to play and helped the Gophers put their foe away in the first half.   Freshman Eric Curry, transfer Reggie Lynch and sop...1418Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/report-minnesota-twins-sign-catcher-jason-castro/News broke late Tuesday afternoon that the Minnesota Twins had reached an agreement with free-agent catcher Jason Castro. Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports first broke the story, with Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports nailing down the length and terms.       The traditional fan might look at Cas...1417Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:03:01 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/i-watched-every-vikings-wildcat-snap-and-this-is-what-i-saw/Let me get it out there right away: The Wildcat is working better than you think.   The Minnesota Vikings had teased the Wildcat Formation in six games this season, sprinkling it into their offense for no more than two plays in each of those half-dozen games. Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals,...1414Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:31:31 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-finally-right-the-ship-in-win-over-cardinals/The Minnesota Vikings finally added a win after a month of drought when going up against a team many expected to make waves this year, the Arizona Cardinals. A win's a win, but it could have been a different story, as the Vikings staved off a final push from the Cardinals to win 30-24.   It marks...1412Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:54:01 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-rediscover-pass-rush-and-return-game-to-snap-month-long-skid/The Minnesota Vikings weren’t getting home on Carson Palmer. They were pressuring, yes, but the sacks were still not there, Palmer had 153 yards passing before halftime, and the Cardinals had 17 points. Zimmer was tempted to blitz and put additional pressure on the veteran Palmer, who was locked i...1408Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:49:15 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/coffey-awakens-gophers-scores-30-as-minnesota-stays-perfect/After Wednesday's easy victory over Mount St. Mary's, I asked Richard Pitino if he thought Amir Coffey -- who finished with 10 points, four rebounds and three assists -- had just played his best all-around game.   Pitino didn't think so. He said he preferred Coffey's performance against UT-Arling...1405Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-twins-add-six-players-subtract-three-from-40-man-roster/The Minnesota Twins added six players to their 40-man roster ahead of the 8 p.m. ET deadline to do so to protect them from selection in the upcoming Rule 5 Draft. The Rule 5 draft is the event that signals the closing of the Winter Meetings each year, which will be held from Dec. 4-8 at the Gaylor...1404Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wolves-blowout-sixers-110-86/Andrew Wiggins stole the spotlight in a nationally televised matchup that featured two of the NBA's most watchable big men, Karl-Anthony Towns and Joel Embiid, as the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night, 110-86.   Towns unquestionably got the best of Embiid th...1401Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/efficient-gophers-cruise-over-mount-st-marys/There was no major halftime adjustment needed, no deficit to overcome on Wednesday night at Williams Arena. After an exciting second half surge Monday against a UT-Arlington team considered to be very good, the Minnesota Golden Gophers only had to overcome some intermittent sleepy spells in the fi...1397Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/1115-third-quarter-dooms-wolves-as-they-fall-115-108-to-charlotte/It's the same old story, and Minnesota Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau seems sick of it. Once again the Wolves folded in the 3rd quarter, this time after leading 58-46 at halftime and getting outscored 36-17 in the third.   "It's the commitment to improve and to learn, to not repeat the same mis...1392Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-release-kicker-blair-walsh-expected-to-sign-kai-forbath/Sam Ekstrom contributed to this report.   The Vikings announced Tuesday that they have released kicker Blair Walsh. Walsh went 2/3 of on extra points last week and has missed three other extra points this season, going 15/19. His 78.9 percent rate was the worst extra point percentage in the leagu...1390Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-coach-tom-thibodeau-has-been-blunt-about-his-young-timberwolves/The third quarter was a problem. A big problem.   -- Tom Thibodeau after a 106-103 loss to the Kings in their second game of the year   It’s early in the season, but to anyone who is paying attention to the 3-6 Minnesota Timberwolves, this much is clear: Tom Thibodeau says it as it is. When his...1388Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/short-yardage-failures-have-cost-vikings-in-each-loss/For a unit that’s long been identified for a strong running team, with a head coach who encourages physical, smashmouth football, the Minnesota Vikings’ inability to gain one yard in critical situations has been maddening.   Over the last four games – all losses -- the Vikings have been bamboozle...1387Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-randy-rosario/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...1386Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gophers-defense-comes-alive-to-suppress-upstart-arlington/Down 41-35 at halftime, the Minnesota Gophers looked like they were in danger of becoming the second Big Ten team in as many years to fall to the Texas-Arlington Mavericks. Ohio State was the victim in 2015, and Minnesota’s halftime deficit didn’t look like it would be easy to overcome against a S...1385Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-offense-improves-in-time-for-defenses-bottom-to-fall-out-in-loss-to-washington/The Minnesota Vikings offense moved the ball better in this week's loss to Washington, but it didn't mean much as they still dropped to the Washington Redskins by six points. Offense That's not to say the offense was good, but rather that it was better.   There's good evidence that the offense...1383Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/1113-wiggins-bjelica-set-personal-records-wolves-crush-lakers-125-99/Andrew Wiggins scored a career-high 47 points on 14-of-21 shooting and Nemanja Bjelica had a career-high 24 in his first-ever start as the Minnesota Timberwolves rolled the Los Angeles Lakers 125-99 on Sunday night.   "I thought a lot of guys stepped up," said head coach Tom Thibodeau, whose Wolv...1382Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-lose-their-left-tackle-and-the-game-in-washington/If the wheels hadn't fallen off before, they certainly have now for the Minnesota Vikings.   Minnesota lost 26-20 to the Washington Redskins, not scoring a single point in the second half on their way to defeat no. 4 in a row.   Arif Hasan will have a complete evaluation of this game posted on t...1381Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000