https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/343/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/breaking-down-the-wolves-schedule-and-season-opener/Through five preseason contests, Tom Thibodeau’s Timberwolves did little to inspire hope for a successful regular season to come.   Not only did Jimmy Butler’s devious antics humiliate the franchise, but a band of dejected teammates also performed woefully in his absence. The Wolves finished thei...5671Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/as-acl-rehabs-evolve-mike-hughes-faces-less-daunting-task-than-he-once-might-have/For the second straight season, the Minnesota Vikings first selection in the draft will have his rookie season cut short due to a left ACL tear.   Head coach Mike Zimmer confirmed Monday that Mike Hughes, the promising rookie cornerback and special teamer from Central Florida, will miss the rest...5667Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/vikings-defense-back-to-its-old-tricks-against-rookie-rosen/After their 38-31 loss in Los Angeles over two weeks ago, Mike Zimmer declared that he wasn't worried about the team's 1-2-1 record. Of greater import was his prize defense, which had been steamrolled for two straight weeks.   Since then, the Vikings are 2-0 after delivering a pair of solid defen...5662Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/after-choppy-preseason-timberwolves-enter-regular-season-with-lingering-uncertainty-around-butler/Jimmy Butler was back at practice on Sunday, but he has not committed to playing Wednesday against the San Antonio Spurs. “Man, to be honest I don’t even know if I’ll be breathing tomorrow,” he said, avoiding the question. He is focused on getting in shape, reconnecting with teammates and, well, w...5660Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/player-ratings-an-ugly-loss-haunts-heath-and-co/Minnesota United dropped an embarrassing game on its home field by a 2-0 score against a struggling Colorado team that featured a pair of VAR overturns and a skirmish at the end.   Here are the player ratings. Positives None. Negatives Losing to the most out-of-form MLS team. The Rapids...5658Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/gophers-waste-away-chances-to-upset-ohio-state/Asking for a win over the No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes was a daunting task. The Gophers came to play, though, and hung around all game but ultimately fell 30-14 in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday.   Ohio State didn’t play its best game, even though Dwayne Haskins threw for over 400 yards. Minnesota, look...5655Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/from-road-embarrassment-to-home-calamity-as-minnesota-united-implode-against-colorado/After Minnesota United suffered their worst loss of the season at Philadelphia Union, a neutral viewer would assume a home match against a Colorado Rapids team that hadn't won in two months would be just the tonic for a team playing for pride and playing to inspire their home support that this cou...5654Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-jimmy-butler-cloud-blinds-all-logic-in-timberwolves-locker-room/The preseason is over and to say the Minnesota Timberwolves have had their ups and down would, of course, be an understatement.   Most of the chaos surrounding the Wolves is occurring off the court, but there are vacillating levels of intensity also happening on the floor. Even with the Butler ci...5653Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/tom-thibodeau-ok-with-jimmy-butlers-confrontation-while-karl-anthony-towns-avoids-all-butler-commentary/At 9:45 am on Friday morning there was some sort of power malfunction at the Milwaukee Bucks stadium Fiserv Forum. The electrical issues at the brand new arena caused the hallway outside of the visitor's locker room to go dark moments before post-shootaround interviews were to begin. As television...5652Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/remington-being-a-wild-fan-is-death-by-a-thousand-papercuts/Even with the Wild mired in some early season mediocrity, watching the brilliantly blazing tire fire in progress across the river, Wild fans may feel like they have something to be thankful for. The Wild have virtually never had any drama worthy of national headlines, no embarrassments that make p...5649Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/pinned-deep-no-sweat-vikings-have-excelled-deep-in-their-own-territory/The Minnesota Vikings have been average in the red zone this year, scoring touchdowns 50 percent of the time, which is tied for 19th in the NFL.   It's been on the other side of the field -- backed up inside their own 20-yard line -- where they've excelled.   Highlighted by last Sunday's 68-yard...5647Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/jimmy-butler-practices-with-timberwolves-wednesday-afternoon/For Wednesday's practice at Mayo Clinic Square, exactly seven days before the Minnesota Timberwolves season begins in San Antonio, Jimmy Butler returned to practice with the team. This development comes exactly 22 days after requesting a trade out of the Twin Cities.   While no local media had ac...5644Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/vikings-defense-hopes-to-fare-better-against-second-rookie-qb-this-season/When Josh Allen came into town with the Buffalo Bills in Week 3 with one start under his belt, the Minnesota Vikings were expected to swallow up the seventh overall pick like they'd done with young quarterbacks Brett Hundley, Mitch Trubisky and DeShone Kizer in 2017.   Instead, using a plethora o...5643Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/end-of-season-notebook-falvey-and-levine-on-sano-managerial-search-mauer-more/Minnesota Twins front office bosses Derek Falvey and Thad Levine held an end-of-season conference call on Tuesday, with the topics of discussion ranging from general year-end housecleaning to the curious case of Miguel Sano's weekend, and everything in between.   Here are some bullet points: Th...5642Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/jayron-kearse-adjusting-well-to-big-nickel-role/The sample size is small, but the results have been good -- good enough to give Mike Zimmer and the Minnesota Vikings hope that this 'Big Nickel' thing is going to work out.   With Terence Newman retiring before the season, the Vikings decided to get creative with their slot corner position, mixi...5640Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/paging-andrew-wiggins/Last Friday evening was the Minnesota Timberwolves' preseason home opener.   This meant two things: It was the fanbase's first look at the 2018-19 squad, while also being Andrew Wiggins' first game at Target Center playing on his maximum contract that kicks in this season. Had Wiggins gone off an...5639Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:00:29 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/dubnyk-shines-while-offense-slides-in-wilds-opening-games/Two games into the 2018-19 season and the Minnesota Wild have a total of two goals. Just two, from veteran Zach Parise in the 4-1 opening-night loss in Colorado and a snipe-shot from the point off defenseman Matt Dumba’s stick in a 2-1 shootout loss to Vegas in Saturday’s home opener.   In a scri...5638Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/vikings-unhappy-with-latest-flag-on-andrew-sendejos-hit/Andrew Sendejo could be facing another stiff fine from the NFL after a late hit drew a penalty late in Sunday's game against the Philadelphia Eagles.   Sendejo hit tight end Zach Ertz in the back as Carson Wentz's pass sailed over Ertz's fingertips, leading to an unnecessary roughness call that g...5635Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/an-oral-history-of-linval-josephs-touchdown-rumble/PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- A momentous thing happened Sunday as 329-pound nose tackle Linval Joseph caught Carson Wentz's fumble and ran it 64 yards for his first NFL score.     Here are the accounts of those who witnessed it.   PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER PAUL ALLEN (during the play): "Look at Linval r...5627Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/thielen-hunter-extend-impressive-streaks-in-vikings-win/Philadelphia, Pa. -- While winning a road game in the NFC East requires a three-phase team effort, which the Minnesota Vikings got on Sunday, their 23-21 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles continued a pair of individual trends -- one offensively, one defensively -- that might have gotten oversha...5625Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/reports-miguel-sano-involved-in-traffic-incident-in-dominican-republic/UPDATE:   On Monday morning, ESPN reported that Sano would not face charges stemming from the incident.   Sano reportedly spoke to the officer -- whom he knew beforehand and went to school with -- and went to back up his pickup truck without realizing that the officer had not yet moved his motor...5623Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/josh-okogie-the-lone-positive-as-thibodeau-attempts-to-circle-the-wagons/With the Target Center approximately one-sixth as populated as it was for the last Minnesota Timberwolves home game, the lights dimming for pregame introductions paired with relatively faint clapping almost perfectly encapsulated the recent arc of this franchise.   It was only five-and-a-half mon...5612Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/can-karl-anthony-towns-production-rise-in-a-perimeter-driven-offense/After scoring just eight points on nine field-goal attempts during his first career postseason outing last spring – a 104-101 loss to the Houston Rockets – Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns was asked about his seemingly transient role within the team’s offensive game-plan.   “We almost won t...5610Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/vikings-have-mixed-results-in-end-of-half-situations-thus-far/The connection between a head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterback has to be strong for an offense to succeed in the NFL, particularly when it comes to situational football.   With two parts of that triumvirate brand new this season for the Minnesota Vikings, the group of Mike Zimmer, Joh...5608Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/remington-dont-look-at-the-minnesota-wild-captains/For many fans, this the 'Parise/Suter era' of the Minnesota Wild, or possibly the 'Koivu Era'. This mostly depends on whom you want to place blame for their lack of playoff success, and how you feel about the money that they've earned in their time here, or most befuddling, how much you care about...5605Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000