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The Chicago Bulls' exit from the playoffs with a three-point loss to the Miami Heat will only add fuel to Chicago's latest sports furor.

I've never really been a big fan of the NFL Network's "Top 100" list that's become an annual thing.

A general view of the Metrodome prior to the game between the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers.

Gerald Hodges during an interception drill during the Vikings 2013 Rookie Mini-Camp at Winter Park Friday morning May 3, 2013.

I might be in the minority in this one, but I'm already calling the Minnesota Vikings ' next stadium twice as nice as Cowboys Stadium where the Dallas Cowboys play.

Nov 25, 2012; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Bears middle linebacker Brian Urlacher tackles Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson during the second half at Soldier Field.

Vikings quarterbacks Matt Cassel left and Christian Ponder and receiver Greg Jennings took part in a offseason conditioning program Wednesday May 1, 2013 in Eden Prairie, MN.

Adrian Peterson had an unreal 2012, falling just shy of Eric Dickerson's single-season rushing record, earning NFL MVP honors and doing so after an amazingly quick recovery from massive knee injuries.

For anyone with an ESPN Insider subscription, this article by KC Joyner is a must read.

This is a bit of a dare-we-dream proposition, considering he Vikings' playoff victory following the 2009 season is the only postseason advancement among the four in the past eight calendar years.

If Christian Ponder is going to live up to Rick Spielman's confidence, the stats show that protection and lack of mistakes are keys for his game.

These are some of the most notable quarterbacks in the National Football League.

Adrian Peterson 's oft-stated goal of 2,500 yards in 2013 continues to reverberate around the world of sports debate, kept alive in part by memories of his doubt-erasing 2012 MVP season.

We expect the extraordinary, in many ways, we demand the extraordinary. For "superstar athletes," success and failure has never been more vague.

Power rankings this early in the season are like mock drafts before the real deal.

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It was just minutes after Derrick Rose had been carried off the floor in Chicago on April 28, 2012, his leg dangling with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, that Iman Shumpert took the floor in Miami for his first playoff game.

Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was the NFL's MVP last season, and Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder was often criticized for not doing enough to capitalize on the way opposing defenses were keying on Minnesota's running game.

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson ran away with the NFL rushing title last year.

Every year some teams disappoint in the NFL , while others make a surprising run to the postseason.