Brian Robison

It's rare that a game's first play from scrimmage is the most critical, but it sure seemed that way in Minneapolis on Sunday. Many Bears had a chance to stop or at least slow Adrian Peterson on his 51-yard run. Defensive end Corey Wootton had...

First minute of the game, and it was the Bears’ defense calling a timeout. That’s one fewer timeout the offense can waste, at least. No, wait, remarkably, they weren’t needed. Jay Cutler used play-action to hit Devin Hester for a 48-...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Minnesota Vikings - INSIDE SLANT General manager Rick Spielman enters the draft armed with 11 picks and ample opportunities to make his second draft as the Vikings' final decision-maker as productive as the first...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Men’s College Basketball--Pittsburgh at Rutgers, 10 a.m. (ESPN2); Wake Forest at Duke, 11 a.m. (ESPNU); Purdue at Michigan State, 11 a.m. (Big 10 Network); Texas at Baylor, 1 p.m. (ESPNU); Ohio State at Illinois, 1:15 p.m....

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| NFL Football--Minnesota Vikings at Houston Texas, Noon (FOX); Cleveland Browns at Denver Broncos, 3 p.m. (CBS); Chicago Bears at Arizona Cardinals, 3:25 p.m. (FOX); San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks, 7:20 p.m. (NBC) Men&...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Arsenal at Wigan, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2) College Football--New Orleans Bowl, East Carolina vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Las Vegas Bowl, Washington vs. Boise State, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Men’...

The Vikings have been ghastly in recent prime-time games on Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights, generating one must-flee TV episode after another for fans willing to stay tuned after dark. Last year was a disaster, but not nearly as ugly as 2010. Even...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| NFL Football--Kansas City Chiefs at New Orleans Saints, Noon (CBS); San Francisco 49ers at Minnesota Vikings, Noon (FOX); Houston Texans at Denver Broncos, 3:25 p.m. (CBS); New England Patriots at Baltimore Ravens, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)...

TV SPORTS Men's College Basketball-Harvard at Connecticut, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); West Virginia at Kansas State, 8 p.m. (ESPN2) NFL Football-Cleveland Browns at Pittsburgh Steelers, 7 p.m. (NFL Network) Women's College Basketball-Creighton at Nebraska, 7...

MINNEAPOLIS - Two light purple bar doors separate the Vikings' locker room from the rest of the team's Winter Park facility. And on many days, those swinging doors can seem a lot like the curtains on “Let's Make a Deal.” Who's behind there? Which Viking...

MINNEAPOLIS - At the far end of an almost silent locker room, Mount Vernon native Chad Greenway sat at his stall, staring into his locker in stunned disbelief after the Minnesota Vikings let a 17-0 halftime lead slip away against Tampa Bay. “Almost just...