TEMPE, Ariz. —The Arizona Cardinals released wide receiver Michael Floyd on Wednesday, two days after he was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and failure to obey a police officer. Floyd was taken into custody after being found unconscious behind the wheel of his running vehicle at …

Jessie Edwards scored a career high of 29 points as Minnesota held off Belmont University 75-74 on Wednesday afternoon at Williams Arena. The Gophers trailed by two points at halftime but took a six point lead into the fourth quarter. Edwards. a 6-foot-5 junior center from Australia, scored nine of …

Maybe, just maybe, the personality of this team is different from yesteryear. Previously, if the Wild was riding high but facing a nondivisional opponent that didn’t get the blood boiling like adversaries from, say, Winnipeg or St. Louis, the Wild almost surely would suffer a letdown. But Tuesday night, the …

Richard Pitino learned to value deflections working under his father, Rick Pitino, at Louisville. It’s a term that has been used heavily at Minnesota since Tubby Smith was coaching at Williams Arena. Smith also a former Rick Pitino assistant at Kentucky, used to make his players do extra conditioning in …

CHICAGO – By bringing their coach victory in his return to Chicago, the Timberwolves also learned a valuable lesson in Tuesday’s unlikely 99-94 comeback victory: If they’re determined to have a bad quarter, better to make it the first one. “I guess that’s one way to look at it,” Timberwolves …

Tucked away in a motion filled with several honors as part of the final business of the day at last Thursday’s U of M Board of Regents meeting, a significant change was voted on and approved: The Sports Pavilion, used by several of the school’s non-revenue teams, has been renamed …

Every Wednesday morning, beat writer Matt Vensel will share five Vikings stats that actually mean something heading into that weekend’s game. 0 — times the Vikings have allowed 300 passing yards in 2016 In the modern-day NFL, where footballs are flung all over the field and quarterbacks have thrown for …

The 22nd anniversary of the Metropolitan Sports Center going down was remembered Tuesday when Vintage MN Hockey tweeted a photo of the series of three controlled implosions. The building was demolished Dec. 13, 1994, after the North Stars moved to Dallas in the fall of 1993, leaving Minnesota and the state of …

Quarterback Sam Bradford showed up on today’s injury report as limited with a right shoulder injury. He was limited in practice two weeks ago with an ankle injury and still played against the Cowboys. Not practicing today were Harrison Smith (ankle), Trae Waynes (concussion), Brandon Fusco (concussion) and Laquon Treadwell …

A student’s claim last September that she was sexually assaulted prompted the University of Minnesota to suspend 10 Gophers football players from the team, weeks after a criminal probe resulted in no charges. Her accusations, documented through police reports and court testimony, ultimately led to a U committee’s investigation and …