Mark Craig
Reporter at The Minnesota Star Tribune
Mark Craig covers the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. He is a Pro Football Hall of Fame selector.
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2 days ago |
timeswv.com | Ben Goessling |Mark Craig
MINNEAPOLIS (TNS)— Jim Marshall, the indefatigable defensive end who started 270 consecutive games for the Minnesota Vikings as the captain of Bud Grant’s four Super Bowl teams, died Tuesday. He was 87. The Vikings said in a release that he had been hospitalized for a lengthy time. kAm|2CD92== A=2J65 `h D62D@?D 7@C E96 ':<:?8D[ DE2CE:?8 6G6CJ 82>6 7C@> E96 E62>’D H:? @G6C E96 r9:428@ q62CD :? :ED :?2F8FC2= 82>6 @? $6AE] `f[ `he`[ E@ 9:D 7:?2= DE2CE @?
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3 days ago |
gazettextra.com | Ben Goessling |Mark Craig
By Ben Goessling and Mark Craig - The Minnesota Star Tribune (TNS) MINNEAPOLIS - Jim Marshall, the indefatigable defensive end who started 270 consecutive games for the Minnesota Vikings as the captain of Bud Grant's four Super Bowl teams, died Tuesday. He was 87. The Vikings said in a release that he had been hospitalized for a lengthy time. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.
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3 days ago |
miamiherald.com | Ben Goessling |Mark Craig
MINNEAPOLIS - Jim Marshall, the indefatigable defensive end who started 270 consecutive games for the Minnesota Vikings as the captain of Bud Grant's four Super Bowl teams, died Tuesday. He was 87. The Vikings said in a release that he had been hospitalized for a lengthy time. Marshall played 19 seasons for the Vikings, starting every game from the team's win over the Chicago Bears in its inaugural game on Sept. 17, 1961, to his final start on Dec. 16, 1979, at age 41.
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3 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Mark Craig
Tre Stewart was 6 years old when he scored the first of what he has ballparked at "more than 200" touchdowns in a 16-year, under-the-radar career that has led him from the dusty Pop Warner fields of Winston-Salem, N.C., to the pristine palace that is the Vikings' TCO Performance Center. "I was a chubby 6-year-old," said the undrafted rookie listed at 5-8, 186. "They had me playing D-tackle." Stewart asked to play running back, too.
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1 month ago |
startribune.com | Mark Craig
1. Day 1 winner: Browns It takes three to four years to accurately assess an NFL team's draft performance. But who the heck has time to be right in today's sports journalism? So, without further adieu, these analytical eyeballs needed about four hours to crown the Cleveland Browns as the biggest winner on Day 1 of the NFL draft. And, yes, people have said those words before only to be proven woefully wrong inside of five years. But ...
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He looked too small for the NFL. And I kept thinking how could he pass protect but the kid has an A-plus resume in terms of production. I wish him well.
Meet Tre Stewart, the Vikings’ unheralded scoring machine trying to stick at running back. Don't miss this one from @markcraignfl: https://t.co/mkDCNJJ3fe
RT @StribSports: Can a 5-8, 186-pounder who ballparks his lifetime touchdown total at "over 200" do all that’s necessary to make it as an u…
My experience the last 100 years is schedule takes in May rarely hold up through the end of September let alone January.
With all due respect to the #Vikings, seems like quite the unfair advantage in the NFC North that they in 2025 will play eight home games, seven road games and two neutral-site games while the other three division teams will play eight home games and nine road games.
