https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/33/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/will-the-twins-deadline-play-out-like-a-seinfeld-episode/When pitching Seinfeld to NBC, George Costanza provided a direct explanation for the network executives.   “I think I can sum up the show for you with one word,” he said. “Nothing.”     Little did he know it, but Minnesota Twins fans might end up using Costanza’s line when looking back at the...22743Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-to-expect-from-j-j-mccarthy-in-2025/Football is finally back.   Although it may be a little while before Week 1, at least training camp has arrived. We may have gotten some clips from minicamp and OTAs, but now the fans will have a chance to go out and see football players in real, live action.   With the advent of camp comes the...22741Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-will-find-out-what-they-have-in-kevin-oconnell-this-season/After a long summer, the Minnesota Vikings have made their way to training camp.   It was just seven months ago that a 14-2 start to the season and a Week 18 showdown in Detroit evaporated into two disappointing losses and an offseason to think about what happened. Most of the actions were positi...22739Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-twins-stand-at-the-crossroads-as-the-trade-deadline-nears/The trade deadline hasn’t gotten any easier for baseball fans since the league expanded the number of teams that qualify for the postseason each year from 10 to 12 in 2022. There are now fewer teams that are sure buyers and sellers at the deadline, with so many teams on the fringe of contention.  ...22735Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/when-will-the-vikings-tell-j-j-mccarthy-to-let-it-rip/The mantra for the 2024 Minnesota Vikings may as well have been "Chicks Dig the Deep Ball."   Kevin O'Connell played to Sam Darnold's strengths, which included a level of arm strength that everyone else had forgotten he possessed. Darnold may have put up Kirk Cousins-esque numbers, but he did it...22729Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/is-this-year-the-vikings-defenses-last-dance/Over the past two seasons, the Minnesota Vikings have built toward having a beautiful machine on both sides of the ball. Kevin O'Connell assembled a gundam on offense so powerful that Sam Darnold was able to pilot it while producing the ninth-most points in the NFL. Meanwhile, Brian Flores proved...22728Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/brooks-lee-is-speeding-things-up-to-slow-everything-down/Brooks Lee grew up in San Luis Obispo, a city of 50,000 people halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It’s an oasis in the desert, 10 to 20 minutes away from the ocean with vineyards and a botanical garden. There are peaks to climb and parks to explore, art galleries to marvel at, and a dr...22725Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/four-years-ago-a-big-bang-sparked-the-vikings-lions-rivalry/At first, there was nothing.   A big, dark space that most never really thought about. There wasn’t a lot going on until an event changed the universe. Then, it happened. A cataclysmic event raged across the sky, created from a cooking underbelly that changed time as we know it.   You may think...22721Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/kevin-oconnell-was-a-coach-long-before-he-held-a-clipboard/At first, Kevin O'Connell wasn’t ready to concede his playing career. In 2011, New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan called O’Connell's phone to inform him of two things. First, Ryan told him that the team was cutting him for the second time in as many years.   However, the Jets believed O'Connell's...22720Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-enter-training-camp-trying-to-unring-a-discordant-bell/Justin Jefferson has 7,432 receiving yards in his first five seasons. He’s made the Pro Bowl and an All-Pro team in every season except for 2023, when he injured his hamstring. In 2022, he broke Randy Moss’ single-season receiving yards record.   Still, he has yet to win a playoff game in the NFL...22716Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/quentin-young-will-continue-family-legacy-with-twins-organization/Minneapolis – Quentin Young was one of those prospects the Minnesota Twins draft team had always hoped to land. When they were running their mock drafts in the draft bunker at Target Field this last week, they focused on Young, and not just because of his family connections to baseball.   Young i...22714Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-twins-can-immediately-diffuse-the-pressure-coming-out-of-the-break/Baseball media and Dodger Legend Vin Scully once , “You can almost taste the pressure now.”  That may be an understatement for the Minnesota Twins in the second half this year.   Minnesota entered the All-Star break two games below .500, 11.5 games behind the Detroit Tigers and four games back...22710Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/do-the-vikings-really-need-another-miraculous-maryland-wr/The Minnesota Vikings have three established starting wide receivers in Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, and Jalen Nailor. Outside of the J-squad, there are still some talented receivers further down the depth chart. Rondale Moore, Jeshaun Jones, Tim Jones, and Tai Felton are all fighting for spo...22709Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/riley-quick-shifted-his-focus-from-football-to-baseball-during-the-covid-summer/Minneapolis – After securing Marek Houston, a well-balanced player, with their first-round pick in the 2025 MLB Draft. The Minnesota Twins used their comp round A pick to secure Riley Quick, a University of Alabama pitcher with plenty of upside in his game.   Quick was a baseball and football sta...22705Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/dallas-turner-will-be-an-impact-player-in-year-2/Expectations were high for Dallas Turner in his rookie season. Many analysts projected him to be the first defender taken in the 2024 NFL Draft. Although two defenders were selected before him, the Minnesota Vikings traded a significant amount of draft capital to acquire him.   Given that context...22701Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/erasmo-ramirez-feels-a-few-years-younger-after-rehab-with-the-twins/St. Paul – The Saints bolstered their bullpen again with another veteran reliever joining the ranks. 13-year-MLB right-hander Erasmo Ramirez was activated from the 60-day injured list on July 1, after they shut him down in spring training with right shoulder inflammation.   Ramirez was one of man...22699Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/david-festa-is-using-the-sinker-to-swim/Two years ago, the sweeper took over Major League Baseball. Pitchers were caravaning down to Driveline to develop a looping off-speed pitch that buckled hitters’ knees.   This year, the sinker is making a triumphant return.   “The sinker has come back,” Minnesota Twins pitching coach Pete Maki s...22698Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/byron-buxton-almost-had-his-justin-morneau-moment/As Minnesota Twins center fielder Byron Buxton stepped up to the plate on Monday night for the Home Run Derby, the stage couldn’t have been more perfect to highlight his impressive first half.   However, Buxton missed an opportunity to increase his standing in the league by winning the Home Run D...22697Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/are-we-sleeping-on-mehki-blackmons-return/In an offseason where the Minnesota Vikings defense bulked up in the trenches, adding Jonathan Allen and Javon Hargrave at defensive tackle, we're still waiting for the team to address the outer edges of the field. Would Minnesota go all-in on a big Jalen Ramsey trade? Might they bring back Stepho...22695Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/how-invested-are-the-vikings-in-their-young-defensive-backs/Earlier this offseason, media analysts suggested that the Minnesota Vikings should acquire an established veteran at defensive back, such as Juan Thornhill or Shaquill Griffin, to round out the secondary.   The Cleveland Browns released Thornhill in February, which meant that he wouldn’t have cou...22690Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-does-the-garrett-wilson-deal-mean-for-jordan-addisons-future-in-minnesota/The Minnesota Vikings have experienced considerable success during the Kevin O’Connell era, and one of the primary reasons has been the arrival of Jordan Addison. Justin Jefferson gets all the headlines as the best receiver in the NFL — and deservedly so — but Addison may have been the piece that...22689Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-twins-have-some-intriguing-minor-league-assets-if-they-become-sellers/With a fresh batch of hopeful young ballplayers entering the organization from this year’s MLB draft, the Minnesota Twins are hoping to replenish their stock in minor league talent. And with the MLB trade deadline just a few weeks away, the club must decide which direction they want to take when t...22684Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/marek-houston-is-a-slick-fielding-shortstop-whos-matured-as-a-hitter/Minneapolis – The 2025 MLB Draft kicked off on Sunday night with Rounds 1 through 3, along with several compensation rounds. The Twins had the 16th pick in the draft and took Wake Forest University shortstop Marek Houston with their first pick.   Like many Day 1 draft picks, the day was a lifelon...22679Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/an-olivia-rodrigo-song-thats-a-perfect-fit-for-six-vikings-players/We’ve reached the dead part of the offseason, and the Minnesota Vikings have little news going around outside of the impending training camp. But just because there’s not much football news doesn’t mean there’s no news at all — like, for instance, Olivia Rodrigo announcing her soon-to-be-released...22677Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/would-new-ownership-make-a-difference-on-the-twins-deadline-plans/The roller coaster that is the 2025 Minnesota Twins continues to twist and turn heading into the All-Star break. The Twins started 7-15, had a 13-game winning streak in May, and a June swoon. Recently, they have produced another chapter, winning each of their past three series heading into the All...22675Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000