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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Randy Moss has become known as much for his distracting antics as he has for his electrifying touchdown catches during his seven-year career. Sounds like Al Davis' kind of player. Dante DiTrapano, Moss' agent, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Minnesota Vikings and Oakland Raiders had ``come to an agreement on Randy playing for Oakland next year.'' ADVERTISEMENT Davis, the longtime renegade owner of the Raiders, has always taken a certain pride in acquiring talented players with troubled backgrounds. And Moss is just the latest to join the Silver and Black. DiTrapano said Moss was...

The Minnesota Vikings have reached an agreement in principle to trade Pro Bowl receiver Randy Moss to the Oakland Raiders, a source close to the situation told SI.com on Wednesday. The deal involving Moss cannot be consummated until March 2, the first day of the league's new financial year. But a source of the trade talks between the Raiders and Vikings said a trade is "likely" and that compensation has been agreed to. The Vikings will receive Oakland's first-round pick this year (No. 7) and an unidentified veteran player -- possibly linebacker Napoleon Harris -- and a 2006 draft pick....

The St. Paul Pioneer Press is reporting that the Vikings will send All-Pro wideout Randy Moss to the Raiders in exchange for linebacker Napolean Harris, the seventh overall pick in the upcoming draft, and another late-round pick. The trade can't be officially made until March 2, but Moss' agent, Dante DiTrapano, informed the paper that the deal is completed. "In speaking with Moss, although he has a lot of ties to Minnesota and did not particularly want to be traded, he's very excited with the possibility of playing for Al Davis and being a part of the Raider tradition," DiTrapano...

According to local newspapers, Randy Moss is leaving for the Oakland Raiders. As a Packers fan, I say "Good Ridaance"! Opinions anyone?

As you read this, we are one day away from history repeating itself.  A history that has continued uninterrupted since the founding of our nation:  the inauguration of the President of the United States.  An orderly transfer of power, an affirmation of the Constitution, and a demonstration of the rule of law over the rule of tyranny or blood or military might.  We, the People, go through this quadrennial process of debates, and votes, and electoral colleges and induction, to affirm our God-given right to freedom and justice.  Oh, we’ll argue over the candidates, the issues, and even the most...

Apparently Randy Moss doesn't write checks. It's beneath him, he will pay his fine in cash, and next time he might even do something worse for attention. See this crazy Video.......HERE....... Reporter: “Write the check yet, Randy?” Moss: “When you’re rich you don’t write checks.” Reporter: “If you don’t write checks, how do you pay these guys?” Moss: “Straight cash, homey.” Reporter: “Randy, are you upset about the fine?” Moss: “No, cause it ain’t [expletive]. Ain’t nothing but 10 grand. What’s 10 grand to me? Ain’t [expletive] … Next time I might shake my [expletive].”

Minnesota Viking Randy Moss reacted to the $10,000 fine imposed by the NFL for his simulated mooning incident during their game with the Green Bay Packers last Sunday. Moss was quoted as saying, "It ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?" When asked Thursday if Moss had written the check yet, Moss responded, "When you're rich you don't write checks." When asked how he would pay the fine, Moss replied, "Straight cash, homey." Dante DiTrapana, Moss's agent, said he would appeal the fine. The $10,000 is a small penalty against Moss's $5.75 million salary this season.

The Randy Moss incident – VU won’t get caught up in the 300th “whatever-Gate” reference the rest of the local and national media want to apply to it – has truly taken on a life of its own. On Wednesday, the Vikings released a statement from owner Red McCombs asking that FOX play-by-play announcer Joe Buck be removed from Sunday’s Vikings-Eagles broadcast, citing that Buck’s comments about Moss’ faux-mooning of Packers fans in the north end zone “suggested a prejudice that surpassed objective reporting.” FOX, the same network that brought us such must-see programming as “pseudo-celebrity” boxing matches between Greg...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Minnesota's Randy Moss was fined $10,000 Thursday by the NFL for unsportsmanlike conduct during the celebration of his fourth-quarter touchdown catch last week _ in which he pretended to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay crowd. Moss also briefly bumped the goalpost with his back end before hugging teammates in the end zone after that game-clinching score in the Vikings' 31-17 wild-card playoff game victory over the Packers.

Randy Moss has been told he will be fined $10,000 for his end-zone celebration, a Vikings source told ESPN's Chris Mortenson on Thursday. NFL officials would not confirm or deny the report. Moss caught a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of the Vikings' 31-17 win over the Packers on Sunday and headed toward the goalpost. He then turned his back to the Lambeau Field crowd, bent over and pantomimed pulling down his pants. Moss didn't practice with the Vikings on Wednesday because of a sprained right ankle, but he's listed as probable for Sunday's playoff game at Philadelphia. Sunday...

Associated Press NEW YORK -- Randy Moss is almost sure to be fined for pretending to moon fans in Green Bay during a playoff win, according to NFL rules. The league is looking into the star receiver's antics in the Minnesota Vikings' 31-17 win over the Packers on Sunday and will announce its ruling later this week. When asked for a reaction to the touchdown celebration Sunday night, an NFL spokesman told ESPN's Chris Mortensen: "Randy Moss can expect to be hearing from us." When asked by AP whether the oft-fined Moss would be penalized again, a league spokesman recited...

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Randy Moss broke such new ground with a disgusting gesture after his game-clinching touchdown catch Sunday that Fox television refused to replay it - until the postgame show. The star receiver shot a fake moon at the Lambeau Field crowd, pretending to drop his pants, then rubbed himself on the padded goal post. It made previous controversial celebrations by NFL receivers Terrell Owens and Joe Horn look like harmless child's play.

<p>Standing behind a lectern Thursday, his words and visage relayed nationally, Randy Moss morphed into everything he shuns on the football field: nervous, vulnerable and humble.</p> <p>The Vikings receiver acknowledged he is struggling to come to grips with a public image he said was "shattered" and nearly impossible to salvage following his arrest Tuesday for a Minneapolis traffic incident. During a rambling, nine-minute address in which he apologized to Michael Jordan, among others, Moss said: "I am human. I am a man. I do take care of my responsibilities and I stand up for my actions.</p>

Minnesota Vikings receiver Randy Moss was charged on Wednesday with two misdemeanor offenses for using his car as a slow-motion battering ram against a traffic officer, but his playing status was uncertain. Authorities said Moss, 25, tried to turn left in his 2002 Lexus sedan from the wrong lane and was confronted by a female traffic officer during Tuesday's afternoon rush hour. Witnesses said Moss nudged the officer with the car for about half a city block, then stopped when she fell to the pavement. After a night spent in the Hennepin County jail, Moss was charged with careless driving...