Blair Walsh

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Minnesota Vikings - INSIDE SLANT Joe Webb is going from Christian Ponder's backup to George Stewart's pet project in Minnesota. The Vikings are transitioning Webb back to wide receiver after three seasons as a...

NFL Team Report - Minnesota Vikings - INSIDE SLANT It's not often a punter drafted in the fifth round, such as Jeff Locke was by the Minnesota Vikings, can upstage three first-round draft picks. But that's what happened Monday because the veteran punter...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Minnesota Vikings - INSIDE SLANT It's not often a punter drafted in the is fifth round, such as Jeff Locke was by the Minnesota Vikings, can upstage three first-round draft picks. But that's what happened Monday...

The NFL Network has started to slowly reveal its list of the top 100 players of the 2012 season. But knowing how little thought some players give while filling out their ballots, I have a hard time taking that list seriously. The list that interested me...

The Sports Xchange Buy a Kluwe: Vikings punter expects to land on his feet EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- It's not often a punter taken in the fifth round can share or even top the attention given to three first-round draft picks. But that's what happens when...

The Sports Xchange EditorsNote: Updated: Reflects Kluwe released Outspoken Kluwe released, Locke steps in EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- It's not often a punter taken in the fifth round can share or even top the attention given to three first-round draft picks....

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Minnesota Vikings - INSIDE SLANT It's not often a punter taken in the fifth round can share or even top the attention given to three first-round draft picks. But that's what happens when the incumbent punter about to...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Minnesota Vikings - INSIDE SLANT By most, if not all accounts, the Vikings had an excellent draft, adding three potential star players who will either become starters or major contributors immediately. Defensive...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Minnesota Vikings - INSIDE SLANT The Vikings had two defensive difference-makers fall to them before taking a breath just long enough to trade back into the first round and grab Cordarrelle Patterson, an offensive...

DETROIT — The Bears' season met a sudden, stunning death when Blair Walsh's 29-yard field goal sailed over the upright in the Vikings' victory over the Packers. But really, the Bears' season had been dying one incompletion at a time. One stuff...

DETROIT — Wearing a knotted tie and a focused gaze, Patrick Mannelly looked like a nervous stockbroker staring at the morning ticker as he sat on a folding chair Sunday inside the visiting Bears locker room. A few feet away, fellow Bears veteran...

DETROIT — The Bears could spend between now and wild-card weekend counting the reasons they will be sitting at home with 10 wins. A defensive meltdown in Week 13 against the Seahawks and a brutal loss at Minnesota the following week are good places...