Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team in 1960, and first took the field for the 1961 season.
Read More at Wikipedia ›The Minnesota Vikings have signed first-round draft choice Harrison Smith to a four-year deal.
The Vikings announced the signing on Friday without disclosing terms. They now have eight of their 10 draft choices under contract almost two months before training camp.The Vikings traded back into the first round to grab the safety out of Notre Dame with the 29th overall pick. Smith is expected to challenge for a starting spot in Minnesota's inexperienced defensive backfield.First-round pick Matt Kalil and third-rounder Josh Robinson are the only remaining Vikings draft picks who have yet to sign a contract. Both have been participating in voluntary practices this week at the team's headquarters....Governor Mark Dayton on Monday signed off on a bill that will give the Minnesota Vikings a new stadium.The $975 million project won final legislative approval last T...
A long-awaited vote on a nearly $1 billion plan to build a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings will be held next week, top GOP lawmakers decided Thursday — with th...
The big push at Minnesota's Capitol to pass a public subsidy for a new Vikings stadium stalled Tuesday, as the proposal got snared in the partisan politics that have...
1 - Matt Kalil, OT, Southern California (6-7, 306); 1 - Harrison Smith, S, Notre Dame (6-2, 213); 3 - Josh Robinson, CB, Central Florida (5-10, 199); 4 - Jarius Wrig...
Minnesota Vikings cornerback Chris Cook was acquitted Thursday of all charges that he assaulted his girlfriend in October and said his next move is to get ready to p...
After tying a franchise record for losses in a season in 2011, the Vikings head into a very important draft with 10 total picks and several areas in need of an upgra...
After spending the beginning part of the century as one of Football Bowl Subdivision's most dominant teams, including a BCS National Championship in 2004, the USC Tr...
Whoa, that was a close one.Leave it to some penny pinching Minnesotans to make a couple of billionaires sweat it out. If Zygi and Mark Wilf had known it was going to...
Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer of BYU and national championship coaches Jimmy Johnson and Phillip Fulmer highlight the 2012 class for induction into the College Foo...
Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson has joined the list of players filing concussion-related lawsuits against the NFL.A suit filed Monday in the Southern Distri...
Gov. Mark Dayton, political leaders and the Minnesota Vikings unveiled a proposal Thursday to build a $975 million stadium for the team in downtown Minneapolis and c...
After a plan to build the Minnesota Vikings a new home cleared its final hurdle Thursday in the state Senate, the team executive who spent much of the past decade lo...
The Minnesota Vikings have signed safety Harrison Smith, the team's second first-round pick in the 2012 draft.Minnesota selected the 6-foot-2, 214-pound Notre Dame p...
Minnesota Vikings cornerback Asher Allen has retired from football.Coach Leslie Frazier announced on Wednesday that the fourth-year cornerback came into his office l...
Minnesota Vikings cornerback Asher Allen has decided to retire from the NFL at the age of 24.Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier said Wednesday that he was surprised b...
A lawsuit filed by former NFL players against the NFL Players Association has been dismissed.A group led by former Minnesota Vikings defensive end Carl Eller said re...
Now that the Minnesota Vikings will get their new stadium, the worrying can begin over a gambling expansion designed to pay the state's share of the $975 million pro...
Gov. Mark Dayton on Monday signed off on a hard-fought agreement to build the Minnesota Vikings a $975 million stadium at the downtown Minneapolis site of the team's...
The Metrodome always felt like a rental property for Zygi and Mark Wilf, two New Jersey real estate developers who purchased the Minnesota Vikings in 2005 with the h...
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