Football

The number crunchers at the Wall Street Journal sat down with their VCRs, stopwatches, and pencils --- and watched hours and hours of sports. Their conclusion; the average 3-hour baseball game has just 18 minutes of actual action (which was better than football).

St. Cloud Cathedral has named eight-year assistant Andy Auger it's new head football coach. Auger replaces Minnesota Football Hall of Fame member Dean Taylor. A Hill Murray High School graduate, Auger played baseball and football at St. John's...

If the whole Manti Te'o debacle has got you scratching your head because you don't have time to read large, uninterrupted blocks of text ... here's a cartoon!

A full line-up of results from this weekend's crucial games.

Well I'm pretty sure anyone would be a step up from Madonna last year, but I'm actually excited the NFL has chosen to have pop star Beyonce as the halftime show for the 2013 Superbowl.

Woah boy. Even if you could not give one fraction of an iota of a care about football, you probably still heard about the game last night (thanks, Facebook!). To deal, we just imagined old-timey Keystone Kops music playing underneath the whole thing. Thankfully other people dealt with the insanity by making funny memes. Here are some of the best.

Last night's Monday Night Football game between the Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers was opened up by Gene Simmons performing The National Anthem. The KISS front man did a great job, check it out.

Football season is officially under way, but let's hope our commentators are a little more up to speed on their play-by-play than our friends across the pond are with their soccer games.

Viking tight end John Carlson has a Grade 2 MCL sprain in his knee will according to head coach Leslie Frazier will miss 1-2 weeks.  Carlson is expected to see significant action at tight end this season along with 2nd year tight end Kyle Rudolph...

Viking running back Adrian Peterson suffered an allergic reaction at lunch in Mankato Monday that sent him to a local hospital.  Coach Leslie Frazier said Peterson ate some seafood that caused his face to swell and shortness of breath...

The Vikings have announced that former Viking linebacker Matt Blair will be inducted into the team’s Ring of Honor at halftime of the October 25 game against Tampa Bay.

Viking running back Adrian Peterson’s attorney says he was a victim and a charge of resisting arrest is a “fabrication.”  Texas attorney Rusty Hardin released a statement Monday, two days after Peterson was released from a Houston jail...