Every Monday at 8:30am StarTribune sports writer Michael Rand stops into the Morning Show to share the latest news in Sports.

1) Saturday afternoon, the Gophers football team beat Northwestern 24-17 and improved to 2-0 in Big Ten play for the first time in a decade. Next week is homecoming against Purdue and a legit chance to go 3-0. So that was a good start to the weekend ...

2) Saturday night, the Wild -- which clobbered Colorado 5-0 in the season opener two nights earlier -- again shut out the Avalanche, this time 3-0 in Colorado. The Avs were the top team in the Wild's division a year ago, so this bodes well for this season. It was all setting up to be a perfect weekend ...

3) Until the Vikings played. With a chance to re-establish themselves after a brutal loss to the Packers, the Vikings instead lost 17-3 at home to Detroit. The offense was pathetic. The weekend? Pretty much ruined.

Michael Rand writes about Sports for the StarTribune in his blog RandBall. You can also follow Michael on Twitter.