Blair Walsh

Four Ravens -- three current and one former -- make Pro Football Focus' list of the NFL's top 101 players

2013-05-06 07:50:00

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...

Ravens kicker Justin Tucker chases perfection in 2nd NFL season

2013-04-14 13:40:00

It was a heady rookie season for Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, a successful run capped by a Super Bowl victory. First the undrafted rookie from Texas beat out former Pro Bowl kicker Billy Cundiff in a training camp competition. Then Tucker connected on...

Marshall, Tillman earn first-team All-Pro honors

2013-01-12 14:16:00

Phil Emery rolled the dice when he traded for Brandon Marshall, and the controversial wide receiver made the Chicago Bears general manager look good with a performance that on Saturday earned Associated Press All-Pro recognition. Marshall set a single-...

Pro Bowl: NFC pounds AFC 62-35

2013-01-27 21:00:00

HONOLULU -- The score wasn't close, but the action was competitive. That was the assessment of several players after the rain stayed away long enough for the NFC to put the hurt on its AFC counterparts in the Pro Bowl. Minnesota Vikings tight end Kyle...

Bears' offense leads to slow death to postseason hopes

2012-12-30 19:09:00

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...

Time for Emery to shake things up at Halas Hall

2012-12-30 19:14:00

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...

Change could be coming after Bears miss playoffs

2012-12-31 04:42:00

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...

Scoreboard -- Jan. 21, 2013

2013-01-21 23:12:00

|TV SPORTS| Tennis--Australian Open, same-day tape, 1 p.m. (ESPN2), 8 and 2:30 a.m. (ESPN2) Cycling--Tour Down Under, Stage 1, same-day tape, 2:30 p.m. (NBCSN) Men’s College Basketball--Iowa at Ohio State, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network);...

South Dakotan honored

2013-01-11 22:26:00

Minnesota Vikings linebacker and South Dakota native Chad Greenway of Mount Vernon was chosen to play in the NFL Pro Bowl as an injury replacement for Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware, who will not play because of a shoulder injury. �Greenway is the...

SCOREBOARD -- JAN. 12, 2013

2013-01-12 23:33:00

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Women’s College Basketball—Oklahoma State at Texas, 11:30 a.m. (FXSP); Nebraska at Penn State, 1 p.m. (ESPN2); Wisconsin at Michigan, 1 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Baylor at Kansas, 1:30 p.m. (FXSP); California at Stanford,...

Packers top Vikings to earn date with 49ers

2013-01-05 21:12:00

GREEN BAY — Bookmakers thought the difference between Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder and backup Joe Webb was three points, as the line moved from Packers by 8 to Packers by 11 Saturday when it was announced before the game that Ponder was...

NFL Week 16: Bruce Arians may be out of a job again, in a good way

2012-12-24 00:00:00

Indianapolis is in, Pittsburgh is out, and Colts interim Coach Bruce Arians has to be pinching himself. Arians, fired as Pittsburgh's offensive coordinator after last season, has coached the Colts to a wildly improbable playoff berth one season after...

Anyone who can make a 55-yarder to send it into OT and then a 38-yarder to win it has a spot on my squad. And did I mention he plays in a dome? In fact, the Vikings only play outdoors once in the first half of the season. Is "The Blair Walsh Project" a stretch for a nickname? Yes?

2012-09-11 10:45:00

Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh (3) kicks a 55-yard field goal to tie the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in the final seconds of regulation. The Vikings defeated the Jaguars in overtime, 26-23, at The Metrodome in Minneapolis Sunday. MCT Photo

2012-09-10 05:38:00