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| Report: Texans set to trade Rosenfels to Vikes |
NFL Football |
02/23/2009 |
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| Houston, TX (MySportsbook) - The Houston Texans are reportedly set to trade quarterback Sage Rosenfels to the Minnesota Vikings. The Houston Chronicle said the Texans would receive a draft choice for the journeyman signal-caller, possibly a fourth-round pick. Rosenfels will be in the final year of his contract in 2009 and SportsRadio 610 in Houston said the Vikings have offered the veteran a three-year, $9 million extension. In Minnesota, Rosenfels would battle Tarvaris Jackson and Gus Frerotte for the starti |
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| Favre calls it quits, again |
NFL Football |
02/11/2009 |
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| , and there was a point in the season where they were talking Giants-Jets Super Bowl. (The season) wasn't all that bad." Last summer it was reported that Favre wanted to remain in the NFC North Division if he could not stay with the Packers, and the Minnesota Vikings were rumored to be his first choice. The Vikings, despite a playoff appearance this past season, are still unsettled at quarterback after Gus Frerotte and Tarvaris Jackson split time as the starter in 2008. "He said he was done playing," Tannenbaum |
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| Smith, Woodson headline 2009 Hall of Fame class |
NFL Football |
01/31/2009 |
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| de Team of the 1990s. He tragically died from injuries sustained in a car accident in 2000 at the age of 33. McDaniel was named All-Pro nine straight seasons and voted to a record 12 consecutive AFC-NFC Pro Bowls during his 14-season career with the Minnesota Vikings (1988-1999) and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2000-01). Hayes, a gold medalist track star in the 1964 Summer Olympics, combined his world class speed with great hands to change the game during his 11 seasons with Dallas and San Francisco. "Bullet Bob," |
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| Tomlin's Success Story Started With Tribe |
NFL Football |
01/27/2009 |
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| ed him as defensive backs coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2001. The next season, Tomlin was on the staff that guided the Bucs to a Super Bowl XXXVII win over the Raiders. He got a bigger NFL break when Brad Childress asked Tomlin to become the Minnesota Vikings' defensive coordinator in 2006. Pete Clawson, William & Mary's assistant athletic director for media relations, related how a friend who worked for the Vikings was quick to tell him how impressive Tomlin had been in his job interview. "He called |
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| Lions hire Linehan to run offense |
NFL Football |
01/23/2009 |
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| d this past season 0-4. He finished with a mark of 11-25 at St. Louis. Prior to his stint with the Rams, Linehan spent the 2005 season as the offensive coordinator with the Miami Dolphins and was the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach with the Minnesota Vikings from 2002-04. Linehan coached at the college level for 13 years before breaking into the NFL. The big three coaching positions are now filled for the Lions, who became the first team in NFL history to finish a 16-game regular season without a win in |
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| Around FCS: Laughing at the BCS mess |
Division I-AA College Football |
01/09/2009 |
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| Chad Pennington, who took Marshall to the FCS championship game in 1995, was 25-of-38 for 252 yards and a touchdown, but he was picked off four times by the tough Baltimore defense. The most exciting game for me, however, was the Philadelphia Eagles-Minnesota Vikings game, where one Payton Award winner (Villanova's Brian Westbrook) and two Buchanan Award winners (Idaho State's Jared Allen and Cal Poly's Chris Gocong) were on display in prominent roles. Westbrook was held in check by Allen (three tackles, two sac |
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| Vikings their own worst enemy |
NFL Football |
01/06/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - For all the talk of what the Minnesota Vikings had heading into last Sunday's playoff bout with the Philadelphia Eagles, in the end it came down to who they didn't have on the field. Here is what the Vikings possessed on Sunday. They had the league's top rusher in Adrian Peterson, the top run defense in the NFL and their first NFC North title since 2000. Here is what Minnesota didn't have when all was said and done. The team was without defensive tackle Pat Williams because of injury and lost |
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| Eagles come up big once again in playoff opener |
NFL Football |
01/06/2009 |
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| impressive finish to the regular season labeled the Philadelphia Eagles as a team one would rather not face in the opening round of this year's playoffs. Recent history supports that suggestion as well. With their hard-fought 26-14 victory over the Minnesota Vikings in last Sunday's NFC Wild Card Playoffs, the Eagles improved to 7-0 in their initial postseason game of a season under longtime head coach Andy Reid. Four of those wins have come in the Wild Card round. Philadelphia's enviable experience in such sit |
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| Steelers' LB Harrison wins Defensive Player of the Year award |
NFL Football |
01/05/2009 |
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| th Harrison as its anchor, Pittsburgh's defense allowed just 237.2 yards per game and 156.9 yards per game through the air, both tops in the league. The Steelers finished second in the NFL in rushing yards allowed per game with 80.2, behind only the Minnesota Vikings. Pittsburgh also led the league in fewest points allowed this season. Harrison earned 22 of the 50 votes turned in by a nationwide panel of sports writers. Dallas' DeMarcus Ware earned 13 to finish second in the voting. The Steelers won six of their |
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| National Football League Playoff Game Capsules |
NFL Football |
01/05/2009 |
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| esota 14 Minneapolis, MN (MySportsbook) - Brian Westbrook took a short screen pass 71 yards for a touchdown to break open a two-point second-half lead with 6 1/2 minutes to play, and the Philadelphia Eagles went on to post a 26-14 victory over the Minnesota Vikings in an NFC Wild Card bout. Westbrook was bottled up for the most part until his game-changing catch-and-run -- picking up 121 yards from scrimmage, with 38 of that coming on 20 carries. Donovan McNabb was 23-of-34 passing for 300 yards with an interc |
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