Pacifist Viking

Shit . I hate everything about it. I hate starting the season on the road. I hate starting the season with a Packer game. I hate starting...

Public Money for Stadiums Sports Law Blog comments on the use of public money for buildings that are primarily for and will be primarily co...

The Vikings resigned Heath Farwell ( Pioneer Press ). A look at the off-season moves in the NFC North ( Football Outsiders ). If you're ...

Perhaps you think I'm lazy (no doubt). Perhaps I've been busy with other things ( sure ). Maybe I've just been uninspired (this...

I still prefer the NBA If I'm watching a sport, I'd rather watch that sport's best players. College basketball is exciting, but ...

UCLA plays it well .

Fandom is Irrational .

In basketball, when a starter gets into early foul trouble, the coach usually takes him out to save him for later. This is stupid for two r...

I don't object that college athletes are not paid by the colleges. The athletes do get benefits from the college (a scholarship), in th...

What bothers me about Glen Taylor insulting Kevin Garnett is not what you think. Glen Taylor should be our guy to criticize. And Kevin Ga...

The Vikings finally signed Ellis Wyms ( SI ). That's good: defensive line depth was (and still is) one of the team's needs. The fir...

*First let me remind our wonderful readers that yours truly, Holy Hitter, attended Duke University (Duke Divinity School to be exact) from 2...

Viking signings The Vikes made a couple of C signings recently: they're the sort of moves a pro football team just makes, so you can...

Sports bloggers are essentially people who watch sports and wish to express and discuss opinions about sports. That's pretty much it. S...

I expected PV's QB Pantheon to consist entirely of Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Archie Manning, and Tito Jackson. Live and learn. At E...

Inspired by this Dave Anderson column in The New York Times , RK and I were discussing via email the futility of "ranking" all-tim...

Men can cry Laura Ingraham made fun of Brett Favre for crying ( Awful Announcing ). She suggests it's not a good message for boys to ...

In a post below , we've been discussing the merits of Warren Moon . As often happens in such discussions, Moon's team's failing...

The Starting Five asks if Brett Favre is really better than Warren Moon. For the record, I don't think Moon is nearly as good as Favre ...

Maurice Hicks: upgrade? The Vikings have signed KR and RB Maurice Hicks ( Access Vikings ). Hicks essentially replaces Mewelde Moore on the...