Sep. 19—GRAND FORKS — UND true freshman Carter Kleinsasser can be a show-stopper when his name surfaces during classes in Grand Forks. "Kleinsasser? Like, Jim Kleinsasser?" a professor might say. Such ...

Jan. 15—GRAND FORKS — For just the second time in UND football history, a former player has been selected to the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. Former UND tight end ...

UND FOOTBALL: Kleinsasser catch against Bison remains lasting memory Looking back, UND running back Phillip Moore, the school's all-time leading rusher with 5,467 yards, remembers his 1998 team mostly ...

Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress still remembers the first time he saw Jim Kleinsasser. The newly hired Childress was tidying up the team’s locker room and saw a man with a full beard, ...

DICKINSON, N.D - Western North Dakota remains a special place to Jim Kleinsasser. The former Minnesota Vikings tight end/fullback remembers traveling to his grandparents' house between the ...

Looking back, UND running back Phillip Moore, the school’s all-time leading rusher with 5,467 yards, remembers his 1998 team mostly using tight end Jim Kleinsasser in the screen game. “You didn’t get ...

Grand Forks - Minnesota Vikings tight end Jim Kleinsasser will line his No. 40 uniform into stance today across from the Chicago Bears and barrel into NFL defenders one last time. Jason Wagner, ...

MANKATO — The Minnesota Vikings’ human battering ram is entering his 10th season in purple. A tight end in name only, Jim Kleinsasser has reached this impressive plateau while making his living ...

Jim Kleinsasser was a second-round draft pick of the Vikings way back in 1999, the same year they selected in round one Daunte Culpepper (not bad) and Dimitrius Underwood (no comment). Kleinsasser, ...

MANKATO, Minn. — The No. 40 looks familiar, doing many of the same things in training camp that the player wearing No. 40 for the Minnesota Vikings has done for so many years. Only for the first time ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Jim Kleinsasser joined the Minnesota Vikings as a second-round pick out of North Dakota in the spring of 1999. The Vikings were coming off a 15-1 regular season and the young ...

Tight end Jim Kleinsasser, who has been with the Minnesota Vikings since they drafted him in 1999, revealed Thursday that he will retire after this season. "I still feel like I can play," Kleinsasser ...