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Tom Schreier
Tom Schreier is the founder and proprietor of Zone Coverage. He created Zone Coverage with the goal of mixing new age media with old-school journalism. His goal was to create an economically sustainable platform for sports content for Minnesota fans. Before Zone Coverage, Tom wrote for Bleacher Report and Yahoo! Sports before joining 105 The Ticket in 2014.
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Matt Canterino Is Picking Up Where He Left Off
By Tom Schreier - Feb 23, 2025
Matt Canterino grew up in Southlake, a Texas suburb north of Dallas and Fort Worth. Like any good Texan, he played football. However, despite being a natural […]
Vikings
Kwesi Has Probably Tipped His Hand On Darnold
By Tom Schreier - Feb 21, 2025
In training camp last year, if you had told someone that ESPN would be spending hours of airtime on Sam Darnold in the offseason, they would have […]
Twins
Ty France Might Be A Canary In the Coal Mine
By Tom Schreier - Feb 18, 2025
Ty France had a few connections to the Minnesota Twins before he signed a one-year, $1 million non-guaranteed contract with them before spring training. In the offseason, […]
Twins
Willi Castro Is Trying To Be Like Water
By Tom Schreier - Feb 17, 2025
Willi Castro has known Amed Rosario since 2012 and lived with him during the quarantine. He later married Rosario’s sister, Aniana. Castro says Aniana occasionally chides him […]
Vikings
Did Kwesi Change How He Values Picks After the 2022 Draft?
By Tom Schreier - Feb 17, 2025
ESPN’s Seth Walder believed the Minnesota Vikings got good value when they traded pick No. 34 to the Green Bay Packers for picks 53 and 59 in […]
Timberwolves
Will We Ever See A “Stepped Transaction” Again?
By Tom Schreier - Feb 11, 2025
The report seemingly came out of nowhere. Alex Rodriguez owned the Minnesota Twins during his playing days. Suddenly, he and his business partner Marc Lore had an […]
Vikings
Philly’s Super Bowl Win Explains Minnesota’s Donatell Dalliance
By Tom Schreier - Feb 10, 2025
Kirk Cousins was perplexed playing against the Minnesota Vikings’ new-look defense in training camp. It wasn’t the first time he had seen something like it. Still, there […]
Vikings
Can Flores Become Minnesota’s Spags?
By Tom Schreier - Feb 8, 2025
Steve Spagnuolo’s defense is so good that it inspires violence. Spags dialed up a corner blitz on a fourth-and-five after the two-minute warning in the Kansas City […]
Twins
Austin Martin Is Trying To Tap Into Another Gear
By Tom Schreier - Feb 7, 2025
Austin Martin has the perfect name. It’s almost a homophone. Aston Martin is a British luxury car manufacturer that makes sleek automobiles with 12-cylinder engines. They’re a […]
Vikings
J.J. McCarthy Is Potential Energy
By Tom Schreier - Feb 7, 2025
There’s an alternate universe where J.J. McCarthy dropped in under center shortly after the Minnesota Vikings’ bye week. Sam Darnold’s magic looked like it had run out […]
Vikings
Minnesota’s “Prehab” With Worked Aaron Jones
By Tom Schreier - Feb 4, 2025
After seeing Aaron Jones in training camp, Garrett Bradbury was at a loss for words. “Dude,” he told the Star Tribune’s Mark Craig. “I can’t believe the […]
Timberwolves
The Wolves Are Trying To Calibrate Dillingham’s Voltage
By Tom Schreier - Feb 4, 2025
The Washington Wizards game on Saturday wasn’t for the faint of heart. Washington beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 105-103, snapping their 16-game losing streak. While Minnesota’s five-game winning […]