Any horse ridden by Calvin Borel of late is the horse to bet on.
Borel rode Mine That Bird to victory in the Kentucky Derby, then switched horses to Rachel Alexandra for the Preakness and won that race, too. Sure, there’s no Minnesota connection, exactly, but with the final leg of the Triple Crown coming up [...]
Madison Memorial guard Vander Blue recently backed out of his oral commit to the Wisconsin Badgers and Tubby Smith’s Gophers now hope to steal Blue away from the Badgers, in what would certainly be a regional recruiting coup. Blue is ranked as one of the top 10 point guards in high school basketball and a [...]
Vikings QB Sage Rosenfels hasn’t tossed a single pass in purple-and-gold yet, and already many are wondering if a 39-year-old QB with a bad arm might be a better choice. No, not last year’s QB in a pinch solution, Gus Frerotte, but Mr. Packers Football himself, Brett Favre – a man most Vikings fans under [...]
As one local newspaper columnist observed, when a job with the Wolves is less appealing than being unemployed, something’s a bit frightening at Target Center. Glen Taylor had hoped his search for a new GM to fill the spot left vacant by Kevin McHale when McHale took over the coaching position would be over in [...]
The details of the NFL salary cap get more complex all the time, enough to fill up several SD cards, but one thing is clear after the NFL bumped up the salary cap from $123 million to $127 million over the weekend: the Vikings have plenty of money to sign their draftees, Antoine Winfield and [...]
While I certainly don’t endorse Brett Favre becoming a Viking, there are $20 million reasons why Favre might flirt with the possibility; that’s the price Green Bay offered last year to Favre to retire and become an ambassador of Packers football. With his free-and-clear release from the Jets, Favre could play the possibility of signing [...]
