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Earlier today, the Vikings released their first depth chart in preparation of their first pre-season game, and while there were many things that came as no surprise to anyone, some things were, if not surprising, at least eye opening.
First, from the 'No Duh' department: Donovan McNabb is the starting quarterback, but Joe Webb is listed second on the depth chart, ahead of Christian Ponder.
The running back depth is Adrian Peterson, followed by Toby Gerhart and Lorenzo Booker, and Ryan D'imperio is the starting FB. The offensive line, going from LT to RT, is Charlie Johnson, Stever Hutchinsin, John Sullivan, Chris DeGeare, and Phil Loadholt. Pat Brown and Thomas Welch are the backup tackles, and DeMarcus Love is the third string LT.
Not surprisingly, the tight ends are Visanthe Shiancoe and Jim Kleinsasser, but Kyle Rudolph is fourth on the depth chart behind Jeff Dugan.
On defense, the line is as expected, with Brian Robison, Remy Ayodele, Kevin WIlliams, and Jared Allen are the starters. Erin Henderson is listed as the starting weak side linebacker, with rookie Ross Homan backing him up. In the defensive backfield, no surprises with Antoine Winfield and Cedric Griffin listed as the starters, being backed up by Chris Cook and Asher Allen. the strong safety is Tyrell Johnson getting the nod over Jamarca Sanford, and Husain Abdullah listed as the free safety.
The Vikings have released CB Marcell Gipson in the first significant move of training camp. Gipson, who left the team to be with his family after the death of his grandmother, asked for and received his release.
In other news, former LB Ben Leber signed a one year $1.25 million contract with the St. Louis Rams.
Seattle Seahawks, which is quickly becoming the Minnesota Vikings West, as Tarvaris Jackson, Sidney Rice, and now Leber have signed to play for the Seahawks.
Although Leber had a good year last year, the emergence of LB Erin Henderson made Leber expendable, even though his contract seemed to be a very reasonable one for the Seahawks, who get a solid vet at a bargain price.
In other training camp news, the muscle and hamstring tweak fairy has visited the Vikings. TE Visanthe Shiancoe, G Steve Hutchinson, and S Tyrell Johnson have all 'tweaked' muscles or hamstrings in the last day or two, and have been held out of practice at some point.
Shiancoe, who's expected to be a big part of Bill Musgrave's new two tight end offense, will not play in the Vikings pre-season game against Tennessee on Saturday, but the Vikings insist that it's just a precaution, and if it were a regular season game, he would be available.
It's not like QB Rhett Bomar was going to beat out Donovan McNabb, uber fan fave Joe Webb, or Quarterback Of The Future Christian Ponder, anyway, but when you get popped for a DUI, you really accelerate the decision making process for the Vikings coaching staff.
Yes, what was supposed to be a quiet day off in Mankato became anything but as Bomar was arrested for DUI early Sunday morning. Bomar, who the Vikings got from the New York Giants last season, might have had an opportunity to make the practice squad once the was released by the team, but I find it hard to see a scenario where that happens now.
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier is a quiet man, but he gives off the vibe that if you don't do what's expected of you, you won't be long for the Minnesota Vikings.
And with Bomar's DUI on Sunday, he made an easy choice even easier for the Vikings.
With almost a week of training camp under the belt, some things are starting to come in to focus for the Minnesota Vikings.
For one, the quarterback position seems to be one of stability now, where just last week it was filled with uncertainty. Donovan McNabb gives a veteran presence and leadership, and the two backups, Christian Ponder and Joe Webb, give off an air of confidence that, other than Brett Favre, the Vikings haven't seen since 2004 or 2005. The addition of WR Michael Jenkins has been a plus for Minnesota, as he is familiar with the offense and has made several big plays during the afternoon practice sessions.
On defense, the line seems to be progressing nicely, as Jared Allen is having a very good camp, and the revamped defensive line seems to be getting the better of the Vikings offensive line.
In the secondary, both CB's Chris Cook and Cedric Griffin are healthy, and look to be counted on to turn around the fortunes of a secondary that was much maligned in 2010. Antoine Winfield, pound for pound the best player in the NFL, will anchor a unit that will have two new safeties starting the season, and his veteran presence will be needed early on.
Tonight, the Vikings have a practice under the lights at Blakeslee Stadium on the campus of Minnesota State University where training camp has been held for 46 years. It's open to the public and starts at 7 PM. After the practice, there will be a fireworks display.
An NFL officiating crew lead by referee Jeff Triplett is visiting the Vikings in Mankato to review rule changes for the 2011 season.
Some of the highlights involve defending defenselees players and reviews on a scoring play.
For the review, coaches can no longer challenge scoring plays at all; a review will be determined by the replay official only, at any time during the game. So, if a team scores, the opposing coach can't challenge. But to prevent teams from running the kicking team out to hurry up and get the next play done, the official will not allow the ball to be snapped until he has received confirmation from the replay official that the score was confirmed.
The league is also getting very serious about blows to the head, and defenders leading with the helmet. Basically, if a defender leads with his helmet towards a defenseless player, it will be a 15 yard penalty. A defenseless player is considered a quarterback in the act of throwing, a receiver who is in the act of catching a ball, and a kicker in the act of kicking, among others.
A point of emphasis will also be placed on running backs and grabbing the facemask of a would be tackler. Running backs are still going to be allowed to use a straight arm, and incidental contact to the facemask is permissible. But if the runner grabs the facemask and then twists, it's a 15 yard penalty.
When Bryant McKinnie was drafted by the Vikings in 2002, he held out until well into November, and it seemed like he had been playing catch up his whole time in Minnesota.
Speaking of that time, which could best be described as one of underachieving, well, it came to an end today. McKinnie reported to camp overweight, and was put on the non-football injury list by the team on Sunday, didn't practice Monday, and was released today.
The move still comes as a shock, though. During the off-season, McKinnie tweeted that he was working on his conditioning with Serena Williams by playing tennis, and seemed to say all the right things about showing up ready to go for the 2011 season.
This is a bold move by new coach leslie Frazier, who is definitely doing things his way, and does not seem intimidated by the fact that he is a rookie head coach in the National Football League. He seemed to go against the conventional line of thinking by not cutting WR Bernard Berrian, and went out and traded for QB Donovan McNabb, who he was with when he was an assistant in Philadelphia.
After the Vikings added offensive lineman Charlie Johnson yesterday, it seemed like the team had addressed their depth issues along the line, but by cutting McKinnie today, those depth issues are now back, and there looks to be an open competition for the starting LT job on the offensive line.
Charlie Johnson has made his money the past two seasons by protecting Peyton Manning's blind side. Now, the Vikings hope that he can assist in protecting Donovan McNabb at some spot on the offensive line.
Minnesota signed Johnson today to a free agent contract, the terms of which have not been disclosed. The 6'4", 305-pound Johnson has played his entire five-year NFL career with the Colts since being drafted out of Oklahoma State with the 199th overall pick (sixth round) of the 2006 NFL Draft.
Though Johnson spent the last two years for the Colts playing left tackle, he also has experience at both guard spots and at right tackle. Certainly that versatility is part of what drew the Vikings to him, as with incumbent Anthony Herrera still recovering from the torn ACL he suffered at the end of the 2010 season, the Vikings' right guard spot is still in a bit of flux.
Then again, if Bryant McKinnie continues the way he's going, Johnson might have a shot at the left tackle spot after all. On Monday, the Vikings placed McKinnie on the non-football injury list with an "undisclosed ailment". . .which many people feel is a polite way of saying "showing up completely out of shape despite having six months to work out." That's a situation that will require some monitoring as the Vikings go through training camp.
The Minnesota Vikings went from first to worst in the NFC North the last two seasons. That's life in the National Football League where games are decided by razor thin margins and rules are in place to establish competitive fairness across the league. The Vikings' nose-dive cost Brad Childress his job, opening up the door for veteran defensive assistant Leslie Frazier to try his hand as a head coach for the first time.
After righting the ship down the stretch, Frazier and the Vikings look to rebound and compete for a playoff spot in '11. To do so, they'll have to receive much better quarterback play than they did last season. Hence the trade for Donovan McNabb. Obviously McNabb isn't considered the long-term solution; that's where Christan Ponder comes into play. But McNabb could do just fine this year playing indoors and with Adrian Peterson. He'll have to be better than just average though if the Vikings hope to return to the playoffs. The Chicago Bears look to be better and, of course, the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers won't be an easy out.
Frazier sure sounds excited about his team's chances at being solid. On Sunday, Frazier joined KFAN from training camp to talk about the start of camp and the Vikings' outlook for 2011.
On the signing of Donovan McNabb:
"He was pretty excited about the opportunity. We had some discussions about a lot of different things that needed to be talked about. He was extremely excited about the opportunity to come to Minnesota with the players that we have around him. It didn't take a whole lot of convincing."
How concerned he is with McNabb's struggles in Washington:
"I've had a chance to work with Donovan in the past. My first four years in the NFL as a coach and his first four years in the league as a player I was around him, watching his growth and saw what he did for our football team in Philadelphia and throughout his career. There were some bumps in the road in Washington and I didn't get overly concerned or alarmed about what was happening. I feel like I know Donovan well, I know what his makeup is like, and also have an idea of what the problems were in Washington. I felt like for our football team and the circumstances that we were coming from this offseason he would be a good fit for what we needed to have done."
On trying to get Chad Greenway and Adrian Peterson locked up long-term:
"Yeah we gotta get Chad taken care of, but Adrian is not far behind. It's a priority to hopefully secure him in a long-term contract at some point. We will sit down with him and his agent and try to get that done sooner than later."
Whether or not he believe Minnesota can win the division:
"No doubt about it. No doubt about it. That's exactly what I'm gonna talk to our team about. I do believe we can win our division without question."
The Minnesota Vikings have signed top draft choice Christian Ponder to a four year deal, with a team option for a fifth.
Because of the new rookie wage scale, it's for dramatically less money than past first round picks have received, but Ponder's deal of 4 years and $11 million dollars is all guaranteed, which is a significant change from the past.
With the top two draft picks in the fold, the Vikings have also signed most of their draft picks. The only remaining draft picks left to sign are Iowa DL Christian Ballard (4th round), Utah defensive back Brandon Burton (5th round), Arkansas offensive lineman DeMarcus Love (6th round), and Ohio State linebacker Ross Homan (6th round).
The Vikings are also expected to get contract extensions for two veterans done, LB Chad Greenway and Superduperstar running back Adrian Peterson.
Players are expected to report to Mankato today, with team meetings scheduled. Tomorrow the first practices for the 2011 training camp begin.
With training camp set to open in Mankato for the 46th consecutive year on Monday, the Vikings have turned their attention to signing rookie draft picks.
The first one to sign on the dotted line was second round pick Kyle Rudolph, the big TE out of Notre Dame. Rudolph looks to be a big part of the offense moving forward, and getting him in on time and under the wing of Visanthe Shiancoe was of prime importance. But Rudolph was the only draft pick that was signed yesterday, leaving first round pick Christian Ponder still waiting to get his deal done.
With the new rookie wage scale, to say Ponder is a holdout is premature, because a reasonable person would expect that a deal would get done today. There's very little wiggle room for negotiations, so contract parameters seem to be pretty well set.
In other news, the Vikings did come to terms with restricted free agents Erin Henderson and S Husain Abdullah. Henderson has been a good special teams player and backup, while Abdullah was one of the few players that played the safety position for the VIkings last year that wasn't 100% terrible.
In the Minnesota Vikings' quest for a wide receiver this off-season, the fancies of many fans had turned to either James Jones, formerly of the Green Bay Packers, or Braylon Edwards, late of the New York Jets.
On Saturday afternoon, the Vikings signed. . .neither of them.
Instead, the team has reached a three-year agreement with wide receiver Michael Jenkins, who spent the first seven years of his career with the Atlanta Falcons. This means that Jenkins is re-joining former Falcons' quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave, who is the new offensive coordinator for the Vikings.
Jenkins was the Falcons' first round pick, the 29th overall selection, in the 2004 NFL Draft after playing his college ball at Ohio State University. The 6'4", 215-pound Jenkins has caught 276 passes in his career, for 3,512 yards and 20 touchdowns.
The Vikings will officially start their 2011 training camp tomorrow in Mankato, and hopefully we will have updates of more rookie signings prior to the team getting on the field on Sunday.
The Minnesota Vikings signed second round pick Kyle Rudolph to his new rookie contract on Saturday, leaving just one first-year NFL player left to sign. That player however, first round pick Chris Ponder, remains unsigned heading into the opening of Monday's training camp.
Rudolph, previously a standout tight end with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, tweeted a picture of himself signing the contract on Saturday while saying that he "Can't thank Mr. Wilf, Mr. Brzezinski, Mr. Spielman and Coach Frazier enough for making me a Viking!"
ESPN 1500 reports that there are still a few later round draft picks that haven't signed with the Vikings yet, but the big signing prior to Monday's meeting in Mankato will be Ponder if it happens.
The Vikings' trade for Donovan McNabb means there's less pressure to get Ponder to camp in time for the first practice on Monday afternoon. But the Vikings also surely would like their top draft pick to get into meetings immediately and take the first-team snaps until McNabb is eligible to practice on Thursday.
No sense in falling behind, especially since the new Collective Bargaining Agreement all but forces agents hands to have their players sign a slotted deal rather than negotiate something on their own.
Former Vikings DE Ray Edwards is on his way to the Ay-Tee-El, reportedly agreeing to a five year, $30 million ($11 million guaranteed).
Edwards had been a productive player for the Vikings, and after Carolina paid hostage ransom money for Charles Johnson, it seemed Edwards was in line to get a little Stockholm Syndrome off of Johnson's payday, but Ray's deal is significantly less.
It seemed like a reasonable contract, and one that the Vikings could have given for Edwards, so it seems that Minnesota didn't want Ray to return, and that feeling was mutual. Edwards began complaining about his contract situation two years ago, and during the off-season he was adamant that he was not returning to Minnesota.
With Edwards now on his way to Atlanta, that means that come opening day the Vikings will be starting three new players on the defensive line, with Jared ALlen as the only player returning.
Today the Minnesota Vikings made several roster moves, besides the obvious ones of the McNabb trade, undrafted rookie signings, and free agent signings.
They signed two players, TE Ed Barham and RB Alexander Robinson, and released three, WR Freddie Brown, DT Jimmy Kennedy, and S Madieu Williams.
Kennedy announced his release on Tuesday via Twitter, and the move was mildly surprising until the team announced the signing of DT Remi Ayodele of the Saints. Brown became expendable with the signing of Devin Aromashodu, and with a salary north of $5 million due to an oft injured and mediocre Williams, this move wasn't a surprise either. The Vikings had asked Williams to restructure his deal, and he refused. When that happened, you could see the writing on the wall for the 2010 NFL Walter Payton award winner.
One name that wasn't on the list? Wide receiver Bernard Berrian. Berrian, like Williams, has a high cap number and low productivity, and it seems like he could also be a prime candidate for the Vikings to get under the mandated laegue salary cap of $120 million.
It continues to be a busy day for the Minnesota Vikings. Fresh on the heels of finalizing the Donovan McNabb trade, the Vikings have signed what appears to be the replacement for Pat Williams.
According to various reports, former Saints NT Remi Ayodele (seriously, Vikes, it's okay to sign a guy with an easy name to spell any time you want, just sayin') has agreed to a contract reportedly worth $9 million over three years.
Ayodele has started 29 games over the last two seasons with the Saints, and has registered 39 tackles and 2.5 sacks over that time frame. According to this tweet from Vikings beat guy Tom Pelissero, Pro Football Focus has him rated as only the 50th ranked DT in the NFL, but 25th against the run, which is an area the Vikings need to address.
The Vikings also need to add a WR due to the Seahawks signing of Sidney Rice last night. Currently, the two biggest names that are tied to the Vikings right now are Packer WR James Jones (see, now THAT'S a name that's easy to spell) and former Browns and Jets WR Braylon Edwards. Both have reputations as guys that tend to drop balls, but as the #3 or 4 WR for the Packers, Jones had career highs in catches, yards, and TD's last year (50, 679, and 5).
Edwards has had a troubled off the field career, but has been a farily productive guy on it. His best year was with the Browns in 2007, where he was an All-Pro and had 80 catches, almost 1300 receiving yards, and 16 TD's. Last year, playing for the Browns and Jets, Edwards still managed over 900 yards receiving and 7 TD's.
The Vikings still have not signed any of their draft picks, but most are reportedly in town, and negotiations will be conducted with them starting tomorrow, according to sources.
After a couple of days of rumors and speculation, it appears that quarterback Donovan McNabb will be heading to the Minnesota Vikings after all.
It has been reported by numerous sources that the Vikings and the Washington Redskins have agreed to the parameters of a deal that woulds send McNabb to the Minnesota Vikings, both in terms of McNabb signing a new contract and what kind of compensation the Vikings would give to the Redskins for his services.
McNabb, who spent the first eleven seasons of his National Football League career with the Philadelphia Eagles before being traded to the Redskins prior to the 2010 season, is a six-time Pro Bowler. For his career, he has a completion percentage of just below 59%, but has thrown twice as many career touchdown passes (230) as interceptions (115). In his one season with the Redskins, he completed 58.3% of his passes for 3,377 yards, 14 touchdowns, and 15 interceptions. He was also benched by coach Mike Shanahan towards the end of the season, which paved the way for his exit from the nation's capital after just one season.
Terms of the contract that McNabb will sign have not been officially disclosed at this time.
The deal will be made official either Thursday or Friday.
If the two contracts that Ryan Longwell has signed with the Minnesota Vikings are any indicator, one thing is for sure. . .the veteran kicker is getting better with age.
Longwell and the Vikings have agreed to terms on a four-year contract worth $12 million, with $3.5 million of that guaranteed. That means he's making more per year in his second contract with the Vikings than he did in his first deal, a 5-year, $10 million deal he signed with the team in 2006.
Since joining the Vikings, Longwell has converted 113 of 129 field goal attempts, an 87.6% clip, which places him among the most accurate kickers in the National Football League over that time. Last season, he made 17 out of 18 attempts.
It was thought that the Vikings might attempt to replace Longwell this season, but with the new kickoff rules that will spot the ball at the 35 rather than the 30-yard line should cancel out some of Longwell's shorter kickoffs. Longwell's accuracy, however, would be hard to replace, so the Vikings obviously felt it in their best interests to bring him back into the fold.
Wide receiver Sidney Rice, who missed much of the 2010 season with a hip injury, has made his way out of Minnesota, as he will sign a lucrative free agent deal with the Seattle Seahawks when free agency officially begins on Friday. The contract signing will be dependent on whether or not Rice passes his physical with Seattle.
The deal is rumored to be a five-year contract worth $41 million, with $18.5 million of that being guaranteed. That's a huge chunk of change for a guy with the propensity for getting injured that Rice has shown over the course of his four-year NFL career.
After being drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft, Rice spent two injury-plagued seasons with the Vikings before breaking out in 2009. In that year, Rice hauled in 83 catches for 1,312 yards and eight touchdown receptions. However, he got injured during the 2009 NFC Championship Game against the New Orleans Saints, and neglected to have surgery on it until August of 2010, causing him to miss the first nine games of Minnesota's season.
In the other three seasons he's played with Minnesota, Rice has just 63 total catches for 817 yards.
The Minnesota Vikings are set to report to training camp in Mankato this coming Sunday. Just under two weeks after players report, Minnesota will begin its four-game preseason schedule on Saturday, August 13th when they travel to Nashville to take on the Tennessee Titans. They then play their next two games exactly one week apart, before finishing up on Thursday, September 1st, ten days before they begin their regular season schedule on the 11th. As of now, no games are schedule to be nationally televised, but if the rumors of Donovan McNabb landing in Minnesota come to fruition, I wouldn't be surprised to see ESPN send a crew to Minneapolis for the third preeeason game against Dallas. The third game, of course, is typically the one where starters receive the most playing time. We'll see. Take a look at the quartet of games below
|Time (CST)
|Sat. August 13th
|@ Tennessee
|7:00 pm
|Sat. August 20th
|@ Seattle
|9:00 pm
|Sat. August 27th
|vs. Dallas
|7:00 pm
|Thu. September 1st
|vs. Houston
|7:00 pm
In the first foray of the 2011 free agency season that doesn't involve cutting players or signing rookies that went undrafted, the Vikings addressed the WR position by signing WR Devin Aromashodu from the Chicago Bears.
Terms of the contract aren't available at this time, but he is most assuredly cheaper than another former Bears WR, Bernard Berrian, who is scheduled to make over $6 million this year. Berrian will most likely have to restructure his contract or be released, as the Vikings will try and keep free agent WR Sidney Rice in the fold.
Aromashodu has had a fairly pedestrian career to this point, catching 41 passes for 543 yards and 4 TD's. However, in a memorable Sunday night game against the Vikings in December of 2009, Aromashodu had his career best game, catching 7 passes for 150 yards and a TD, as the Bears held off a furious Vikings comeback to beat Minnesota in overtime, 36-30.
Aromashodu provides a bit of insurance for the Vikes, as the only established WR with any significant experience is Percy Harvin.
Oh, and because 'Aromashodui s so difficult to spell, his new Delta Tau Chi nickname is DA.
In a mildly surprising move, the Minnesota Vikings have released DT Jimmy Kennedy, a productive backup for the Vikings the last two seasons, and have signed UDFA Derrick Locke, a RB from Kentucky.
Releasing Kennedy clears $2.5 million in cap space for the Vikings, who are still over by approximately that amount. Locke will probably compete for a special teams or third string RB slot, as the RB depth appears set with Adrian Peterson and Toby Gerhart.
What an exciting day it's been for the National Football League and its legion of loyal fans across the country. The lockout is officially over, training camps are set to start as early as Wednesday for some clubs, and on Tuesday morning, free agency will officially get underway. Before the madness begins, let's take one last look at the Vikings' free agent situation, specifically which guys who played on the squad in 2010 are currently not under contract and awaiting news about whether they'll be back in Minny or heading elsewhere to play in 2011.
Restricted Free Agents (three or more accrued NFL seasons)
First refusal/ compensation/
Abdullah, Husain
Washington State
Henderson, Erin
Unrestricted free agents (four or more accrued NFL seasons)
Baskett, Hank
New Mexico
Cook, Ryan
New Mexico
Edwards, Ray
Evans, Fred
Texas State
Favre, Brett
Southern Mississippi
Frampton, Eric
Washington State
Jackson, Tarvaris
Alabama State
Leber, Ben
Kansas State
Lewis, Greg
Longwell, Ryan
Ramsey, Patrick
Rice, Sidney
South Carolina
Sheppard, Lito
Tahi, Naufahu
Brigham Young
Walker, Frank
Williams, Pat
Texas A&M
Obviously there's some big names on the URFA list -- Ray Edwards, Pat Williams, Ben Lieber, Ryan Longwell, Sidney Rice (and if you're one to believe the most recent rumors, Brett Favre). You can count on the Vikings parting ways with one or more of these mainstays in the coming days, and as it almost always is, it will be tough for fans to say goodbye to players they've followed and rooted for over the years. But that's life in the NFL where the rules are intentionally structured to keep player movement high and the competitive balance fair.
Buckle up, just getting started folks!
the Vikings have signed their first undrafted free agent of 2011, apparently inking Ohio State defensive back DeVon Torrance to a rookie contract.
Torrance, a standout at with the Buckeyes, will compete at the safety position for the Vikings…where they need all the help they can get.
There is no truth to the rumor that part of Torrance's signing bonus contained free tattoos and/or cars, not is there any truth that Torrance will be taking a pay cut as he transitions from Ohio State to the pros.
Over at Viking Update, Tim Yotter has given us a pretty comprehensive timeline for the next few weeks. Some highlights:
26 Jul: Teams can negotiate with and sign their own rookies and free agents. They may negotiate with, but not sign, free agents and rookies. But they can't sign them. WAAAAAT?
27-29 Jul: Training Camp opens for 30 teams. On 27 July, teams may sign players they have extended offers to.
31 July: Vikings players arrive for camp
1 Aug: Vikings first practice
11 Aug: last Vikings training camp practive for Vikings that is open to fans
11-15 Aug: First weekend of pre-season games
The Minnesota Vikings have released an official statement regarding training camp in Mankato:
The Minnesota Vikings announced today the team will report to Minnesota State University, Mankato, on Sunday, July 31, for the 2011 Verizon Vikings Training Camp. With NFL owners and players reaching a labor agreement, the team informed officials from the community and the University that the Vikings will return to Mankato for the 46th consecutive year – the second-longest current training camp stretch in the NFL.
"We wanted to prolong our decision as long as possible in an effort to maintain our training camp tradition of practicing in front of Vikings fans in Mankato" said Vikings Owner and President Mark Wilf. "The Vikings appreciate the patience and flexibility shown by Minnesota State University and the Mankato community in making this work, and we look forward to returning to our training camp home in August."
According to the Greater Mankato Convention & Visitors Bureau, approximately 60,000 fans from 28 states, Canada, England and over 100 different Minnesota cities attended last year's training camp. The annual event has an estimated $5 million economic impact on the Mankato community.
"Hosting the Vikings training camp is an integral part of our community," said Mankato Mayor Eric Anderson. "For two weeks, our hotels, restaurants and bars are filled with thousands of Vikings fans. The citizens and businesses of Mankato welcome those fans back in 2011 and moving forward."
"We are thrilled the Vikings will be making the trip to Mankato this year," said Minnesota State Mankato President Richard Davenport. "We greatly appreciate the Vikings willingness to leave the decision until the last possible moment. In doing so, the team made its commitment to the University very clear. We have been the home of the Vikings training camp for the past 45 years, and we want that to continue."
The Vikings first training camp session open to the public will take place on Monday, August 1.
The NFL Lockout is on the verge of being lifted, and we are going to get the NFL back into our lives very, very soon. How soon depends on which team you support, because the NFL will stagger when Training Camps being based on when teams play their first preseason games. The Vikings, according to Matt Pomeroy of the NFL network, will be one of the ten teams to kick off training camp on Friday.
Teams Starting Camp Friday: Bears, Bills, Browns, Colts, Giants, Packers, Panthers, Rams, Titans, Vikingsless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyMatt Pomeroy
So that means the Vikings will have to get a lot of business done before Friday comes around, and that includes bringing back some of their own free agents. We'll see how that plays out over the course of this week.
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Right down to the wire, a complaint filed with the San Francisco Ethics Commission today [Tue/3] – election day – alleges that Democratic County Central Committee elected chair Mary Jung authorized phone calls that were meant to deliberately confuse voters on Proposition B.
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"You weren't able to give an answer on state standards (on class sizes). It does give me significant heartburn."
Assistant Superintendent David Ryan said hiring the additional assistant principals was a directive from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), which accredits city schools."I think it's unrealistic to expect any high school to grow, if the chief instructional leader of a school is having to administer detention ... in these very large complex urban high schools," Ryan said.Ryan said the NEASC is conducting a review of principal staffing levels at the request of the district's principals.
The budget projects a $128,800 reduction in the salary line for teachers and other employees, with an associated reduction in benefits of $82,000. At the same time, it projects a $881,000 increase in health insurance costs.Livingston said the reduction in the salary line was possible because of the retirement of veteran employees.
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HOOVER, Ala. –
In the opening round of the 2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, the eighth-seeded and 24
ranked Alabama Crimson Tide fell to the ninth-seeded Kentucky Wildcats, 7-1. With the loss to the Tide is eliminated from the tournament.
"It was a tough day for us and we didn't' perform very well today," Alabama head coach Mitch Gaspard said. "We knew going in it could potentially be a tough matchup with A.J. (Reed) on the mound and us starting a freshman. We got off to a rough start, as Nick (Eicholtz) struggled in the second. Jay (Shaw) did a nice job to minimize things there, to give us a couple opportunities, but we couldn't get the big hit."
Kentucky (33-22) got a good start from A.J. Reed (11-2), who got the win after throwing five innings, allowing one run on six hits with two walks and two strikeouts. In relief, Andrew Nelson threw the final four innings without allowing a run on two hits with a strikeout to notch his first save of the year.
Alabama (34-22) collected a total of eight hits in the game, as Georgie Salem was 2-for-4 with a pair of singles for his team-leading 22
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double of the season. Wass' RBI double in the third inning drove in Salem for the Tide's lone run of the game.
Alabama used a total of six pitchers in the game, as starter Nick Eicholtz (3-2) took the loss after allowing two runs in one-plus inning of work. Although he did not allow a hit, Eicholtz had four walks and hit one of the seven batters he faced.
Jay Shaw allowed two runs on four hits over the next three innings, Ray Castillo and Mitch Greer had an inning of work, Tucker Hawley gave up a run on two hits in 1.1 innings and Taylor Guilbeau finished out the night with 1.2 scoreless innings, allowing one hit with a strikeout.
For the Wildcats, Storm Wilson, Matt Reida and JaVon Shelby had two hits each and all three scored two runs, and Austin Cousino was 1-for-3 with three RBI.
"For us over the last three or four weeks, that's been the same theme, we've been too giving on the mound and creating opportunities for our opponents and we haven't been able to get many timely hits," Gaspard said. "It's a bad formula, particularly with the schedule we've had to play on the back end of the season. This team will regroup and this team will be very dangerous come regional time when this team is fresh."
After Eicholtz hit the first batter of the Kentucky second, he and walked the next two to load the bases, forcing Alabama made a pitching change just seven batters into the game. Reliever Jay Shaw got Reida to fly out to left field, but it was deep enough to allow Michael Bernal to score from third. After a Shelby single re-loaded the bases, Cousino's fielder's choice allowed Storm Wilson to score, giving the Wildcats a 2-0 lead after an inning and a half.
The Tide responded in the bottom of the third, when Wass doubled to the wall in left center field to drive in Salem, who singled to start the inning.
The Wildcats added two more runs in the fourth when Cousino dropped a two-out, bloop single down the right field line to drive in Wilson and Reida, who both singled earlier in the inning. The Wildcats added two runs in the sixth inning off Castillo, before capping the scoring with a run in the eighth in an RBI fielder's choice by Ka'al Tom off Hawley.
After Reed left the game after six innings, Nelson retired 12 of the 14 batters he faced and did not allow a runner past first base over the final four innings.
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The show will see five celebrities getting together at one person's house, where a full three-course dinner meal will be planned by the host. The host also has to keep his guests entertained. All the guests will be asked to rate the host at the end of the party.
Aishwarya, who is known by her role of Toasty in "Saas Bina Sasural", admits she can't cook in real life.
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|Forkhead transcription factor; drives S-phase specific expression of genes involved in chromosome segregation, spindle dynamics, and budding; suppressor of calmodulin mutants with specific SPB assembly defects; telomere maintenance role (1, 2, 3, 4 and see Summary Paragraph)
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|High-Copy suppressor of Calmodulin 1
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|Molecular Function
|Manually curated
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|Manually curated
|6 genes
|8 genes
|302 total interaction(s) for 170 unique genes/features.
|Physical Interactions
|Genetic Interactions
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HCM1 is a member of the winged-helix/forkhead (FOX) transcription factor gene family that regulates the late S-phase specific expression of genes involved in chromosome segregation (including motor protein, kinetochore component, and sister-chromatid cohesion genes), spindle dynamics, and budding (4, 5). In addition, HCM1 drives the expression of FKH1, FKH2, and NDD1, M-phase specific transcription factors required for the subsequent temporal wave of cell cycle regulated transcription, and two cell cycle specific transcriptional repressors, WHI5 and YHP1 (4).
HCM1 was originally identified as a high-copy number suppressor of a calmodulin (CMD1) mutant with a specific defect in the assembly of the spindle pole body (SPB) and was later found to regulate the expression of SPC110, a gene that encodes a calmodulin binding protein and SPB component (1, 2). HCM1 mutants display elevated rates of chromosome loss, in keeping with the set of target genes that are up-regulated by this transcription factor (4). HCM1 mutants require an intact spindle checkpoint for viability, as evidenced by their sensitivity to the spindle poison benomyl and also by the synthetic sick or lethal phenotype of the hcm1 mutation in combination with mad1, mad2 or pds1 mutations (6, 7, 8). Based on these results and the G2 delay identified in HCM1 mutant strains it has been proposed that the chromosome segregation defects associated with the mutation activate the spindle checkpoint, and that in the absence of checkpoint components this has deleterious consequences (4).
The HCM1 gene is cell cycle regulated, with peak expression in the G1 phase of the cell cycle; abundance of Hcm1p reflects a similar periodicity (9,
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|Horie S, et al. (1998) The Schizosaccharomyces pombe mei4+ gene encodes a meiosis-specific transcription factor containing a forkhead DNA-binding domain. Mol Cell Biol 18(4):2118-29
|Carlsson P and Mahlapuu M (2002) Forkhead transcription factors: key players in development and metabolism. Dev Biol 250(1):1-23
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We are undoubtedly related, because I am of that Farcet-Kyabram Line, too. My gggrandfather was John Edward Edis, son of David and Hannah Edis of Farcet (my husband and I have visited Farcet). John married Martha Saunders, and their son, George, married Gertrude Jane Clarke. My mother, Gertrude Mary (Mollie) was George and G.J.'s eldest daughter. She died in 1995. Her sister, May Cocks is 90 years old and is being cared for by her daughter, Margaret Moltmann.
You have probably seen 'The Edis Story' which was compiled for the Reunion held in 1986, at Katamatite.
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In the year 1938 Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a plan for a convention center in his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin called Monona Terrace. The plan was initially canned by the county. Wright continued to revise his design (FLW is notorious for changing his design. I visited his home/studio in Oak Park and he was constantly changing the design, experimenting with new ideas. I think that's pretty awesome) and garner support for the project but the money just wasn't there and then WWII broke out, project shelved.
In 1990, 52 years later, a new mayor pulled Wright's proposal back off the shelf. After years Wright's proposal finally passed and in 1994 construction began.
At the end of last year I got a call from Jay Gullixson, an art buyer at Hiebing who holds the Monona Terrace marketing account. They asked me to work on an advertisement for the convention center. They liked the fact that I shoot architecture and people and how the two relate to one another (score!). I was awarded the job and worked with Jay and the art director, Rich Matheson, and we shot it this past January. I had a blast working with those guys and hoping to visit Madison again very soon. Hopefully when it won't be -15 degrees outside.


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Published: February 23,2011
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JACKSON — Jim Finley, owner of The Growth Coach in Jackson, is pushing for passage of Senate Bill 2770, which he says will be an incentive for aspiring entrepreneurs.
The Self Employment Assistance Program, known as SEAP, allows eligible workers who lose their jobs to receive unemployment benefits while actively working to start a business. It allows those receiving unemployment benefits to become self-employed by creating their own jobs.
Under current state law, if someone receiving unemployment benefits starts a business, his or her unemployment benefits are stopped.
Although states are authorized by the U.S. Department of Labor to establish SEAP, only about eight states have done so. If Mississippi does this, it would be first in the South, according to Finley.
Workers qualifying for SEAP would be first identified through a system that determines if they are having trouble finding other work. A computer program developed under the guidance of the USDOL would help with this. Skills, education and whether those skills and education are in demand in the local labor market are among the factors that will be considered.
Rules regarding how individuals will be selected will be determined by the SEAP steering committee.
The SEAP steering committee will consist of nine voting members, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES) executive director or his appointee and eight others — one from each of the following organizations: National Federation of Independent Business; Mississippi Manufacturers Association; Mississippi Economic Council; Mississippi Development Authority; Delta Citizens Alliance; Mississippi Small Business Development Corporation; Mississippi Minority Business Alliance; and, an at-large member appointed by the MDES executive director.
There will be two advisory members — the chair of House of Representatives Labor Committee and the chair of the Senate Labor Committee.
USDOL limits participants in this plan to 5 percent of the unemployed at any given time. Currently that would be around 1,300.
Participants will be required to show evidence that they're working to start a business by meeting certain goals set by the SEAP steering committee. Among those goals will be developing a business plan and attending training focused on developing a new business. The steering committee may require training be done through SBA-sponsored events, the Mississippi Small Business Development Center or other related organizations.
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I have lost all respect for you Larry. You have been salivating over Romneys trickle down economics for months now. Top down fat cat elitist tax help for rich people is going to make America worse rather than better. The real degradation of America is at the bottom. Whos suffering will ultimately get worse & end Americas viable future. Romneys' trickle down band-aid is death to real Americans who have to work for a living. While elites like you run away with all of the money as usual. You don't care about America. Nor does the GOP or Donald Trump, or even Romney himself. All that you see is your own paychecks increasing, at the price of most of Americans continuing to suffer under a nanny state reality.


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My first book
I got LOTS of emails in 2007 from people who were trying to find a copy of my first book, How to Snag Major League Baseballs. If you're one of these people, I have two pieces of good news:
1) As of this second (3:43pm ET on Saturday, January 26), there are 10 copies available on Amazon.
2) I have officially begun working on a new version of the book.
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A new version as in just putting and taking stuff out of the old one? Or a new version as in starting from scratch?
on the topic of books…i have an interesting idea for you to do maybe when you retire or even during the winter…i dont know whether youd be interested but its certainly an idea
i think a book that highlights each stadium in words and graphics, but not just from an overall perspective, but from you…a baseball enthusist. especially with all the new stadiums that have been built in the past decade and all the new ones coming out, it would be like a guide book for people who want to check out the ballparks all over the country. in addition you can talk about toher stadiums, no longer in use and share your memories and pictures with those who dont know too much about these stadiums of the past.
you can talk about accessablity, and how the food is, and what there is to do besides just watching the game and going to the bathroom and concession stands. you can use some sort of rating scale on all aspects of the park too, and if i know you correctly you have a very keene sense for picking small different things out that make each stadium unique
but what i think would make this book better is your great sense of photography. you have a unique style that i think captures things that a normal panoramic view of a stadium wouldnt come close to grabbing. the concorses, the way the ballpark is set up, what the stadium looks like from a distance and the entrances and whatnot
also, with your writing style and the humor you put in, i really could see you doing an excellent job with this, and while there are books that basically go from stadium to stadium, they never really go in depth about the ballpark itself and all its unique features
it would be a challange but i certainly think you can do it, and i think you would do an incredible job doing it too
just an idea…
Hiya Zack…cool news on your first book. I was able to find a copy for $2 on half.com this past summer. I am glad everyone will now have a chance to get a copy with the new version. Maybe since mine is a first edition, I can sell it, retire and spend life at the ballparks, lol. Spring Training is coming….Jim
I don't know if I've already said this but I don't care. I read on this forum that the new Nationals' ballpark is going to be like Camden. Season tix holders get into other parts of the stadium for the home team's batting practice (Nationals). While everyone else I guess has to wait in some concourse over left field. I'm not exactly sure, but all I know is that I'll be able to get in before a lot of other people. 45 minutes of snagging with only a couple hundred of people to compete with.
is your name spelled wrong on amazon?
1 week to XLII in Arizona!!!!!
What ***** would pay 43 dollars for a 5 dollar paperback?(no offense to zack, or anyone who did spend 40 bucks)
I just looked at the Stat Counter and viewed your stats. You've already had 2000 returning visitors this year to your website. That's 1/3 of all of 2006. I guess your growing in popularity. Keep it up!!!
New, as in starting from scratch…but also using/rewriting lots of stuff from the old one. I wonder if that's true about RFK letting in season ticket holders earlier. Wouldn't surprise me. Lots of stadiums are moving in that direction. Thanks for checking out my blog stats and pointing that out. I was not aware…and I'm glad to hear it. I think (and hope) 2008 will be huge.
That's really an incredible idea, and you may or may not believe this, but I've actually been talking to my publisher about something quite similar. They want(ed) a book from me that focuses more on stadiums and watching baseball in person, but I'm really interested in redoing my original snagging book (and making it MUCH bigger and better), so I'm working on ways to combine the two. The book you've suggested would take a LOT of work, and I'm not quite ready at this point in my life to jump into a project of that magnitude. But it's a really good idea. If you (or anyone else) have ideas for a new snag book, feel free to let me know.
Good luck with that retirement fund, but I'm afraid you might have to look elsewhere. :-)
But wow, I can't believe you found it that cheap. Good for you. Bad for everyone else.
Yeah, for some reason, my name got entered into the system as "Zachary." That IS my real name, but I only use it on official legal documents. Weird.
Some people really really REALLY want the book, but there are VERY few copies around. Thus and henceforth, some people do pay a lot of money for it. I know someone (from this blog) who paid over $100 for it recently, if you can believe it, but it made him happy and that's all there is to it.
Hey Zack this is my very first post here but I have been reading this for a while and I have also read your second book.
I am looking very much forward to your new version of your first book because I hope to own it. Anyway, I think you are a great writer so keep it up.
Hey Zack,
sorry I have commented in a long time… I became kind of disenchanted with the whole collecting thing, most likely because I became so caught up with the high School mentality that nothing is cool except getting wasted and acting like an idiot… anyway I recently got a few autographs TTM, most notably a signed ball from the commissioner, and I remembered all the great afternoons I spent during last summer with my dad, running around Shea and Yankee stadium after balls and autographs and all the cool people I met, including yourself. Anyway I can't wait for the season to begin and I look forward to seeing you and everyone else around NY and Shea and Yankee and hopefully it'll be a great season for everyone
new york going down sunday,boston will throw down any giants fan in the parking lot ,manning a girlyman
I'm will guess that the person who paid a Franklin for the book erns his own money, cuz there's no way I could come up with 100 dollars and not spend it on video games.
Puck Collector-
Your bad spelling habits and oversuse of text-slang have resurfaced. Clean up your act!
THE METS GOT SANTANA! (allegedly)
The Mets paid a high price in prospects to land Santana, agreeing to send the Twins outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitchers Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey.
I am surprised. The Twins gave up Santana for prospects?! I would want someone already ready to play in the big show than some prospects. Well, if the whole thing turns out the way the Mets are expecting, then you're welcome for having Santana for no loss….
if anyone wants the copy of zacks first book i would be to sell it for a reasonable price. i read it so much i basically have the thing memorized. its a great book as is his second book. i highly recommend zacks books in general. you know you will get your money's worth. also sorry i havent gotten on much, been pretty busy but i hope everyone is well. if anyone wants the first book let me know at firstname.lastname@example.com alright thanks guys
So are you excited that the Mets will sell out at least 35 more games this season?
Off topic.
I've got two extra seats for the NY Islanders versus the Kings tomorrow night at the Nassau Coliseum. The seats are $60 each, but you can have the pair for $40 total.
Zack, if you're interested they are a freebie for you as a "Snag with Puck Collector" night, but I need to hear from you. Thanks.
my goal is to get a ball from him. hes got nasty stuff. im so pumped to see him pitch.
puckcollector-id be all over those tix if i didnt have to go to work and practice. and for the fact i have no way or getting there. sorry. good luck.
Thanks so much, and welcome to the comments section! I hope this isn't the last time that we'll all hear from you.
I know what you mean about the pressure of trying to fit in. Let me tell you: fitting in is overrated, and as you get older and transition into college, that pressure will steadily decrease. The more people you know, the more people you'll find who share your interests and mentality, so you won't need to put on a show for anyone. Anyway, enough of that. I'm looking forward to seeing you and everyone in '08 as well.
Guess we'll see…
Video games? I truly believe that that is money well spent.
You tell him! Way to lay down the law! Meanwhile (and as I mentioned in an email to you yesterday), I won't be able to make it to the Coliseum because I have other plans, but thanks VERY much for the offer. Hopefully I can take you up on it another time.
Finally, baseball gets some attention again.
Carlos Gomez, while certainly not at his peak, is ready for the major leagues right now.
I might need to hire you as my official spokesman. Really…thanks. I appreciate that.
Don't get me started.
I have no idea if Johan is good about throwing balls into the crowd, but I'm with you…I'd really like to get one from him, not to mention an autograph.


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Hi All,
I want to read the bluetooth message. How can i read the attachment with that bluetooth message? I have done this in 3rd edition using MMsvAttachmentManager and CMsvAttachment API. But those APIs are not there in 2nd edition. So how can i do that for 2nd edition? Any help will be appreciable.


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It's official: Toshiba surrenders to Blu-ray
Toshiba has officially abandoned its HD DVD technology, surrendering to Sony's Blu-ray in the entertainment industry's biggest format war since VHS beat Betamax in the 1980s. The news follows yesterday's rise in the value of Toshiba shares as investors voiced their approval of the company's alleged decision to abandon the HD DVD …
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People format
So, once again, DRM and the most expensive format has won. Rammed down our throats by the big fat companies. A pity...
I am sticking with DVD for at least a few years.
What's in a name?
So, is there another reason that Blu-ray won apart from the fact that it's easier to say than HD-DVD and makes small people think of ray-guns?
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