http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:11:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The next six games will determine which team will advance to the playoffs and which two teams will be sitting at home in January, wishing. The Minnesota Vikings, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears are all 5-5 after Sunday's games, which saw the Packers disrupt the Bears, 37-3, while Minnesota ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/11/17/six-games-to-win-it-all/ After a hope-building win to start the season, the Minnesota Timberwolves have now lost eight straight games to get off to yet another disappointing start under third-year head coach Randy Wittman. Now standing at 1-8, their hopes for achieving at least a 5-5 record in the first 10 games is ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/11/17/wolves-lose-eight-straight/ Whether on the benches at the arena, or from the comfort of satellite TV and home theater seating, the second season of Tubby Smith-coached Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball looked outstanding this weekend as Minnesota won three straight games to start out 3-0 on the season and take home top honors ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/11/17/gophers-mens-hoops-start-out-3-0/ Despite a loss to Northwestern on Saturday, on Sunday Gophers coach Tim Brewster came up the big winner when he received an oral commitment from five-star WR Hayo Carpenter, currently a sophomore for College of the Canyons in California; he turned down Arizona State, Boise State and Nevada to wear ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/11/03/football-gophers-lose-but-snag-5-star-receiver/ The Minnesota Vikings enjoyed a post-bye-week victory over the Houston Texans and gained a game on Green Bay in the NFC North race today, with a 28-21 win. After a win streak apparently on a diet pill this season, the Nordic warriors needed a "W" after a disappointing but hard-fought loss ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/11/03/vikings-beat-texans-move-up-in-nfc-north/ It means pretty much nothing, except that maybe Minnesota is playing more of its regular season starters for more minutes during the exhibition season. But for those trivia lovers out there, the Timberwolves did improve to 5-1 on the preseason, winning Sunday night 111-107 over the Denver Nuggets. Rarely does pre-season ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/10/20/wolves-reach-5-1-in-preseason-action/ Even though this weekend was a bye week for the football Gophers, Minnesota debuted in the BCS Top 25 poll for the first time this season, and the first time since 2005. While the Tim Brewster-coached Gophers are ranked near the bottom of that poll, at number 24, it is ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/10/20/gophers-reach-top-25-without-playing-a-game/ Former Marquette and current Miami Dade Community College power forward Trevor Mbakwe may not wait until spring to announce his intentions. Smith offered Mbakwe a scholarship back in September and the St. Paul native had an official campus visit during "Tubby's Tip-Off" this past weekend. The Gophers are clearly the front-runner ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/10/19/mbakwe-close-to-committing/ People were keeping a close eye on their Guess watches today as time ticked off the clock in the Bears-Vikings clash at Soldier Field in Chicago. It was a high-scoring affair that left each team counter-punching the other most of the way. In the end, though, it was Gus Frerotte's fourth ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/10/19/vikes-fall-short-of-win-over-bears/ Timberwolves rookie forward Kevin Love has a lot of learning to do, and if coach Randy Wittman has his way, it will be defense that Love, and the rest of the team, learn first. In year two of the post-Garnett era, Wittman is again preaching defense to a team still ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/10/06/wolves-look-for-defense-from-love-team/ Whether Brad Childress, whose tenure with the Vikings is on a pulse oximeter, gets to finish out this season as the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, or becomes the next coach to be fired mid-season, is a tale that may be told over the next three games. Currently a ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/10/06/next-three-games-could-tell-story-for-childress/ Minnesota Gophers receiver Eric Decker is making maroon-and-gold fans forget all about the one that got away, Cretin Durham Hall grad Michael Floyd, now with Notre Dame. That's because Decker currently leads all Division I receivers with 696 receiving yards through six games; he's also third in the nation in ... http://www.minnesotasportsscene.com/2008/10/06/decker-leads-all-in-receiving/