Canadian guard Devoe Joseph, a young athlete just now leaving the pimple cream crowd, was cleared by the NCAA to enter the University of Minnesota and be eligible to play D1 basketball for Tubby Smith’s Gophers last week. While Smith put together a Top 15 recruiting class and all of them are important, it is [...]
Minnesota Vikings starting quarterback Tavaris Jackson suffered a sprained right knee against the Baltimore Ravens in pre-season action on Saturday. The injury is to the medial collateral ligament and is expected to keep the signal-called out of action for the remainder of the pre-season.
The Vikings are eying a return in time for the regular season [...]
Rodney Williams Jr., who Tubby Smith’s Minnesota Gophers are in hot pursuit of for the 2009 recruiting class, has five other schools he’s interested in who are currently pursuing him, according to recent online reports. That list includes Kansas, Connecticut, Memphis, Miami (FL) and Santa Clara.
Williams Jr., who is a longtime pal of Gophers commit [...]
Former Gopher wrestler and WWE star Brock Lesnar finally gave up on being a Viking and has set his sights on the world of ultimate fighting. Although he lost his debut match last February against Frank Mir, Lesnar learned to never let up in UFC and won a decisive victory over Heath Herring in from [...]
When it comes to pharmaceutical companies, most people think of big corporations who charge “too much” for medicines people need to survive, and that’s about it. One of the big surprises for some people when they review the new Johnson & Johnson Web site is that there’s a lot more to Johnson & Johnson than [...]
When Kevin Garnett was still a Timberwolf, he usually made in a single season what it will take Ryan Gomes five years to earn under the terms of his new contract with Minnesota. Gomes, arguably the second-most-important cog in the Kevin Garnett trade last summer, was an unrestricted free agent this off-season.
Although coming off another [...]
It’s only the first pre-season game – the kind that aren’t supposed to count for much except evaluating talent of those who are not obvious starters. Just the same, the Vikings lost to Seattle on Friday 17-34, and to add insult to injury, the team lost two players for the season, LB Heath Farwell and [...]
