Bob CollinsThe Minnesota Vikings are worth $1.59 billion — $1 billion more than what Zygi Wilf paid for the team in 2005. That’s a pretty good 10-year return on investment. Read more →
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Jane Rosenberg had a better time sketching Tom Brady today, although he still looks guilty. Read more →
Which is worse? An ex-NFL player advising rookies to always have a “fall guy” if they got into legal trouble? Or a sportswriter who sat on Cris Carter’s 2014 comments at an NFL rookies symposium? Read more →
Jane Rosenberg ‘s assignment was to sketch the courtroom while Patriots quarterback Tom Brady complained about being suspended for cheating. Twitter misfits didn’t like how she drew Brady. Read more →
That new stadium going up in Minneapolis is going up for one of the 50 most valuable sports teams in the world, Forbes reports today. Read more →
An NFL official has a surprising recommendation to cut down the number of head and brain injuries in football: Get rid of the equipment that protects players. Read more →
Adrian Peterson, who has refused to attend optional Minnesota Vikings practices in an ongoing contract dispute, is again using Twitter to pour gas on a fire. Read more →
The New England Patriots are pushing back — and hard — against the independent investigation of whether and how footballs used by the team in last season’s AFC Championship Game were deflated. Read more →
The Defense Department pays NFL teams to honor service members on game day. The Vikings have pulled in more than $600,000. How patriotic is that? Read more →
Be careful what you do at a football game; it might be the first line of your obituary.
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It’s believed that only one in three rape victims report their attack. It’s not something we didn’t already know. Darren Sharper’s case, though, shows it’s something that doesn’t seem to change.
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There’s an old saying in sports: if a play is working, just keep running it.
The National Football League ran its stadium play again this month in St. Louis and, just as it has in every other city, it’s working perfectly so far Read more →
When the soon-to-be-former Minnesota Vikings running back was suspended by the NFL for the rest of the season, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said part of the reason was that Peterson didn’t appear to be contrite for beating his son. Now, he’s contrite. Read more →
As the Minnesota Vikings season headed for the rocks, it seemed a lot of the attitude toward Adrian Peterson shifted too.
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Two former football wives in the NFL are offering a dark picture of life inside the NFL when it comes to domestic abuse. Read more →