Leslie Frazier

MINNEAPOLIS It's probably best that the Vikings' rumored interest in Brian Urlacher went unrequited. Urlacher retired a Bear, and without coming back five years later and signing one of those silly one-day contracts to pretend he had remained in love with...

Four words you never thought you'd see together? Try these: "print journalism" and "boot camp." Twenty-three former and current NFL players took part in "The NFL Sports Journalism and Communications Boot Camp" at Bowling Green State University in Ohio...

According to new Timberwolves president of basketball operations Flip Saunders, former Gophers forward Trevor Mbakwe performed well at last week's NBA draft combine in Chicago, which is held for players who have a likelihood of getting selected....

Tom Kelly had a favorite word for the strange events that occur around the traveling carnival that is a big-league sports team: buffoonery. As Twins manager, he might use it in reference to an umpiring call or an official scorer's decision, or a rookie'...

The Sports Xchange Vikings move QB Webb to wide receiver Joe Webb is going from Christian Ponder's backup to George Stewart's pet project in Minnesota. The Vikings are transitioning Webb back to wide receiver after three seasons as a backup...

The Sports Xchange NFL Roundup: Ex-WR Johnson sought on probation violation Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson is wanted by authorities in Florida for violating multiple terms of his probation, according to an NFL.com report. The Broward Sheriff's...

NFL Team Report - Minnesota Vikings - INSIDE SLANT It's not often a punter drafted in the fifth round, such as Jeff Locke was by the Minnesota Vikings, can upstage three first-round draft picks. But that's what happened Monday because the veteran punter...

Former Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher is in search of a team. And the Minnesota Vikings are said to be in need of a starter at his position. So, naturally, there has been plenty of speculation that Urlacher would end up wearing the purple and...

The Sports Xchange Vikings in no rush to add Urlacher Brian Urlacher isn't close to finding a new home in the NFL if he's expecting that destination to be Minnesota. Head coach Leslie Frazier told NFL Network on Wednesday that the Vikings aren't near a...

The Sports Xchange NFL Roundup: Garrard's knees to force retirement Any New York Jets quarterback competition will have to go on without David Garrard. According to NFL Network's Adam Schein, Garrard plans to retire because of chronic knee issues....

The Vikings' new stadium doesn't look like a football stadium. It's more like some futuristic spaceship you would envision warp speeding around a distant quadrant of the universe. And there's nothing wrong with that. The new stadium will have a...

Andre Hollins won't be the only University of Minnesota basketball guard nicknamed "Dre" anymore. Now there's Deandre Mathieu, an Arizona Community College junior college guard also nicknamed "Dre." "We're both Dre and both from Tennessee," Mathieu said...