Others may have shied away after being challened by a dude named The Sportz Assassin, but The Viking Age fears no one.A So, I strapped on my Ninja gear and climbed up the side of the mountain to the ancient temple, and after a few pops of oxygen, did epic battle with the noble warrior from AOL   more...
Original Story: http://thevikingage.com/2008/09/18/mixin....

FrustrationIt's hard to imagine a regular season loss being more frustrating than today's Vikings defeat at the hands of the Colts.A To go up 15-0 on a Colts team missing 3 offensive line starters - a team that couldn't run the ball or consistently protect its quarterback - and end up surrendering   more...
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The Vikings make their 2008 home debut against the Colts today at 12 CT on CBS.A Both teams are 0-1 coming in, having dropped their respective season openers.A The Vikings had a bad first half offensively against the Packers, mostly thanks to Tarvaris Jackson, but rallied in the second half to   more...
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The Vikings go into camp with 80 men on their roster, and will have to trim that to 53 by the time the season starts.A The current position-by-position breakdown follows the jump (depth chart positions subject to debate in some cases; starters in italics):OffenseQuarterbackTarvaris JacksonGus   more...
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The Vikings go into camp with 80 men on their roster, and will have to trim that to 53 by the time the season starts.A The current position-by-position breakdown follows the jump (depth chart positions subject to debate in some cases; starters in italics):OffenseQuarterbackTarvaris JacksonGus   more...
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Here are six possible waiver wire plays at each of the skills positions. We'll start with the obvious waiver play in New England with Matt Cassel.
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The Vikings announced four cuts today and none of them are particularly exciting (unless you were really rooting for Derrick Pope to unseat Vinny Ciurciu).A The jettisoned players are:LB Derrick PopeOT Sean DumfordOT Brock PasteurWR Daniel DavisThis gives me a chance to post a revised roster plus
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The finalized 2008 53-man roster was just released on Vikings.com (in PDF format for some screwed up reason).A Here it is all sorted by position (don't say I don't work hard for you) followed by the final cut list:OffenseQuarterbackTarvaris JacksonGus FrerotteJohn David BootyRunning BackAdrian
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Tight end Marcus Pollard has been cut by the New England Patriots. The 36-year-old Pollard was a semi-important contributor to the AFC Champs last year, catching 28 balls for 273 yards and 2 TDs (superstar stats compared to the Vikings' tight ends), but it's generally agreed that his best years   more...
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New Vikings safety Madieu Williams may miss up to six weeks with a bad neck. Williams was kept out of the preseason opener against Seattle with what were termed neck spasms - I guess the spasms haven't stopped spasming. Williams himself could offer no elaboration on the injury:I'm not allowed to   more...
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The Vikings play their first preseason game tomorrow night against Seattle.A Brad Childress says the starters will go a quarter or maybe a little more if circumstances dictate (last year the offense got screwed out of some reps because the defense kept forcing turnovers and returning them for   more...
Original Story: http://thevikingage.com/2008/08/07/prese....

Sidney Rice will not play in tomorrow's big exhibition game with Pittsburgh after missing four straight days of practice with a stomach virus.A Bernard Berrian, who missed the Baltimore game with a bad toe, is expected to get some action despite being limited in practice all week himself.A   more...
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Ray Edwards (back) will probably come off the PUP list this week and get some practice time. Pat Williams has been nursing his elbow which was operated on in the off-season but is finally seeing some action. That's half our alleged big-time defensive line right there. Be a shame to see the plan   more...
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Brian Robison is facing the possibility of surgery to repair a funky vein in his left leg. As Robison explained it:It's been something that has been there for a while and it's just kind of flared up on me. I have a varicose vein on my left leg. It's something they are looking at and we went and   more...
Original Story: http://thevikingage.com/2008/08/04/robis....

Tuesday morning notes: The Vikings just completed their media briefing after the morning update and here are some notes and observations: * Wide receiver Bobby Wade did not practice because of a sore left knee. Wade said afterward that he's fine and coach Brad Childress said they wanted to give   more...
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