As Jeremy pointed out to me, today was a rare day in that the Twins, Vikings, and T-Wolves were all on the front page of ESPN.com at the same time (and Twin Cities-based blogger Aaron Gleeman got an ESPN link, to boot). Even better, none of the links referred to “Minny.”
Reggie Fowler is the new Vikings owner- I know very little about the man, but am glad both that we’ve finally got an African-American owner in the NFL, and also that the McCombs tenure is over. Hopefully Mike Tice will soon follow him out the door, and maybe –to the chagrin of the 64 commenters over here- Randy Moss as well.
The Wolves may be beyond help at this point, unless they can swing a major trade- and Chad Ford’s best guess is that they may import Portland’s thug duo of Ruben Patterson and Darius Miles, along with Shareef Abdur-Rahim. Sorry, don’t see that leading them into the playoffs, especially considering Kevin Garnett’s bad knee.
But the best day of all was had by the Twins, who re-signed baseball’s best starting pitcher last year, Johan Santana, to a four-year deal for $40 million. We know he'll be a Yankee eventually, but at least now that date is pushed back until at least 2008.
Unfortunately, there was no Wild news to report, other than stories about how they won't be playing this year.
Posted by Stephen Silver at February 14, 2005 10:10 PM