https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/75/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gophers-looking-for-renewed-respect-as-pitino-begins-year-4/Prior to the Minnesota Gophers' first basketball practice of the season, fourth-year head coach Richard Pitino called a two-part team meeting. It was not held in the comfort of the locker room or at center court of Williams Arena where the coach’s talks are often given. This was more intense – a c...1379Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/pat-shurmur-brought-change-in-his-first-game-as-playcaller/Some say the backup quarterback is the most popular guy on the team, and the same might be true for the backup offensive coordinator – at least in the eyes of fans who consider themselves true Monday Morning Quarterbacks.   Naturally, when Norv Turner resigned last Wednesday after engineering two...1376Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-taylor-rogers/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...1373Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/119-timberwolves-hold-onto-big-lead-beat-orlando-magic-123-107/The Minnesota Timberwolves built a large lead against the Orlando Magic Wednesday night, and this time they held onto it to improve to 2-5.   Minnesota scored 39 points in the first quarter, their highest-scoring quarter of the young season, and had a 74-47 lead going into halftime. Their 74 firs...1372Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/118-wolves-lose-third-straight-fall-to-brooklyn-119-110/The Minnesota Timberwolves were defeated by the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night, 119-100. With the loss, the Wolves' record drops to 1-5, with the lone victory having come against the Marc Gasol- and Mike Conley-less Memphis Grizzlies. Though there is more than enough time for president-coach Tom T...1366Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/it-will-be-a-transition-season-for-the-minnesota-twins-this-year/Derek [Falvey] is responsible for the baseball department, and he can make any kind of decision he wants to by himself.   -- Twins owner Jim Pohlad in Derek Falvey’s introductory press conference   This isn’t what long-suffering Minnesota Twins fans want to hear. They don’t want to hear that Rob...1365Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-outright-wimmers-announce-coaching-staff-changes-for-2017-season/New Twins operations bosses Derek Falvey and Thad Levine wasted little time making moves after being introduced to the media corps on Monday. First on the docket was outrighting right-handed pitcher Alex Wimmers off the 40-man roster.   Wimmers, the club's first-round pick in 2010, overcame massi...1364Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/michael-knight-on-twins-presser-im-not-sure-what-i-just-saw/In 1988, in Game 1 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Kirk Gibson, pinch hitting in the bottom of the ninth inning for the Dodgers, with injuries to both legs, hit a two-run home run to walk off Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley for a 5-4 win. From this game came Jack Buck’s legendary...1363Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-introduce-derek-falvey-thad-levine-as-new-baseball-power-structure/With the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series in seven games over the Cleveland Indians to wrap up the 2016 season late last week, the Minnesota Twins were finally able to formalize two moves that have been in the works for some time now.   The first was hiring Chief Baseball Operator Derek Falv...1359Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:12:59 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/mike-zimmer-confirms-vikings-are-working-out-kickers/UPDATE: After working out six kickers on Tuesday, the Minnesota Vikings decided to retain Blair Walsh at least through the club's Week 10 game at Washington. Head coach Mike Zimmer said the team would continue to evaluate the position moving forward.   Having watched Blair Walsh miss seven kicks...1358Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-give-fans-heart-wrenching-loss-in-season-that-has-everything/The Vikings have blown out opponents, and have been surprisingly rolled themselves. They’ve won some incredibly close games and come back from behind, so it’s only fitting that they lose a close game by allowing a late-game rally. They did it in a pretty novel way, too.     As is the case i...1357Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/multiple-regrettable-moments-lead-to-third-straight-vikings-loss/In the two previous weeks, the Minnesota Vikings have been thumped soundly on the road. In Philadelphia, they trailed 21-3 until very late in the game. At Chicago, they trailed by a similar score of 20-3 until a garbage time touchdown. As Mike Zimmer admitted in both cases, Minnesota just got outp...1354Sun, 06 Nov 2016 17:33:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/115-wolves-lose-again-fall-to-thunder-112-92/The Minnesota Timberwolves were defeated by the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night, 112-92.   The loss comes despite a season-high 33 points from Karl-Anthony Towns, who made 13 of his 20 field goal attempts, including three of four from 3-point range, and was the only starter to tally doubl...1352Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/xs-and-os-finding-the-main-culprit-in-the-vikings-loss-to-the-chicago-bears/After starting out red hot as the last undefeated team standing the MInnesota Vikings have quickly gone from hero to zero, in large part due to their porous offensive line play. Their bye week during week six seemingly stopped all their momentum as they loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and Chica...1351Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/devising-a-2016-twins-offseason-blueprint/Every year the fine folks over at Twins Daily release their passion project, which is the Offseason Handbook. This year, they’ve done things a little bit differently, and are offering it for free with a free-will offering so to speak. You can access that here.   One of the fun things they do is...1350Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:46:05 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wolves-fall-to-denver-102-99/The Minnesota Timberwolves had hoped to improve to .500 with a win on Thursday night, but would come up short, falling to the Denver Nuggets, 102-99.   Kris Dunn made his second consecutive start in lieu of the injured Ricky Rubio alongside Zach LaVine, Andrew Wiggins, Gorgui Dieng, and Karl-Anth...1345Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-formalize-hiring-of-falvey-levine-press-conference-monday/In addition to adding Derek Falvey as Chief Baseball Officer, the Twins formalized on Thursday what was previously rumored to be happening -- that former Texas Rangers executive Thad Levine would be taking over as Senior Vice President and General Manager.   Levine had spent 11 years with the Ra...1343Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:17:07 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/norv-turner-surprises-vikings-resigns-after-two-straight-losses/After a two-game losing streak during which the Minnesota Vikings’ offense produced just 20 total points, including two garbage time touchdowns, and watched their quarterback get sacked 10 times, Vikings offensive coordinator Norv Turner, 64, resigned his duties as the playcaller of the Minnesota...1339Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:24:37 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/111-minnesota-timberwolves-steamroll-memphis-grizzlies-116-80/The Minnesota Timberwolves' first victory came against a team they have already faced once in the preseason as well as for their season opener on the road -- the Memphis Grizzlies. It came in spectacular fashion, a 116-80 beatdown that left no question that the Grizzlies, who were without star pla...1334Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-announce-2017-spring-training-schedule/On Monday, the Minnesota Twins announced dates for Spring Training 2017 in Fort Myers, Fla. Pitchers and catchers will report on Monday, Feb. 13 and begin working out the next day. That Saturday (Feb. 18) the rest of the team will report, and full-squad workouts begin on Sunday.   The Twins have...1332Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-do-sportswriters-favor-write-halloween-headlines-for-them-after-ugly-loss-to-chicago-bears/The Minnesota Vikings dropped a game they were heavily favored in to the 1-6 (now 2-6) Chicago Bears 20-10, though the game was closer to a 20-3 score before a garbage time touchdown to Stefon Diggs made the score look more respectable.   In a funhouse mirror version of their win over the New Yor...1330Tue, 01 Nov 2016 12:34:10 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/timberwolves-sign-gorgui-dieng-to-contract-extension-muhammad-to-become-rfa-rubio-out-indefinitely/The Minnesota Timberwolves yesterday announced that the team has signed Gorgui Dieng to a contract extension. The 26 year old, fourth year player out of Louisville will receive $64 million over the next four seasons, according to the Undefeated's Marc Spears.   Shortly after the Wolves had finish...1328Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/xs-os-jayron-kearse-still-has-a-ways-to-go/Seventh-round rookie Jayron Kearse was thrust into action during the Minnesota Vikings 21-10 loss against the Philadelphia Eagles after starter Andrew Sendejo went down with an ankle injury. The Clemson product garnished a lot of buzz during training camp because of his physical nature, standin...1324Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-ryan-pressly/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...1323Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-refocusing-for-mondays-halloween-clash-with-chicago/The Minnesota Vikings locker room carried a serious tone to it after walkthrough Thursday during a chilly and damp day outside. The cool temperatures will prove to be a good preparation for Chicago as the outdoor conditions at Soldier Field will bring similar climates with temperatures set to be i...1322Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000