The sports debates are the ones in which both sides have logical points to be made. As such, we bring you a sports debate this morning: which football team will win more games this season — the Gophers or the Vikings.

On the surface, the Vikings should always have the edge since they play four more regular-season games than the Gophers. Then again, the U gets a chance for a pretty good head start every season with the soft non-conference schedule favored by many BCS schools. A decent year in college football, really, is seven or eight wins. Same goes for the NFL.

manny being manny Manny Ramirez is a changed man and has helped the Cubs' prospects develop, per a story at foxsports.com.

room to improve The Vikings open the regular season at No. 26 in ESPN's power rankings. Week 1 opponent St. Louis is No. 24..