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EAGAN, Minn. -- The Minnesota Vikings have secured naming rights for their new headquarters, with local physician group and sports medicine provider Twin Cities Orthopedics.The Vikings announced a 20-year agreement Tuesday with TCO at the groundbreaking ceremony for the training facility and team offices theyll move into in 2018.Financial terms werent disclosed, but the campus will be called the Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center. An expandable 6,000-seat venue, one of five outdoor fields, will be named TCO Stadium.Twin Cities Orthopedics will also construct a full-service center set to open around the same time on the sprawling suburban site, where players can go for MRI tests and consult with orthopedists.Similar in concept to The Star, the multi-purpose complex the Dallas Cowboys recently moved into, Vikings headquarters will sit on a 40-acre site designed to anchor a 200-acre development with commercial, retail and residential buildings planned over the next 10 to 15 years along with hotel and conference center space. The stadium is expected to host local high school football games and other youth activities.I think an NFL team can create that type of energy and that kind of investment, said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who attended the event.Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, free safety Harrison Smith and wide receiver Laquon Treadwell were there, too, among the 20 people on stage for a series of speeches before a parachute quartet descended on the dirt and gravel to hand deliver the commemorative shovel that Goodell used for his photo-op dig. The landings were made on the under-excavation ground that will become the outdoor practice fields.The Vikings long ago outgrew their current space that opened in 1981 in Eden Prairie, which like Eagan is suburb south of Minneapolis with a population of about 60,000.Punts hit the ceiling of the indoor practice field, and business staff are scattered among three buildings. The vacated former headquarters of Northwest Airlines was available, a site much closer to the airport and much larger for all of the modern amenities desired by the team to keep players in the best mental and physical shape.The new campus will include an indoor field with full-clear height for kicking, an auditorium for full-team meetings and a variety of sports-science features such as hydrotherapy machines and specialized speed-training rooms.General manager Rick Spielman took best-practice notes from a number of college team facilities to help design the space.Given the fans-ready stadium thats part of the plan and the trend around the league toward stay-at-home training, the big question for the Vikings is if or when theyll move summer two-a-day practices to their new digs.Theyve gone about 80 miles south to Minnesota State University in Mankato for the past 51 years, one of only 13 teams in the league that travel off site for camp.We havent had any discussions at all about that, Spielman said. Thats down the road, if we do move at all. I know Mankatos been great. Its been our home for 50-odd years. They do an unbelievable job down there, and thats why weve been there that long. But all of that will be determined down the road.Eagan would undoubtedly welcome such a move. Even without it, the city is eager for the elevated profile that will come from housing an NFL team.Mayor Mike Maguire beamed about the destination potential of the project, casually mentioning the hypothetical chance for people to see Bridgewater dining in an area restaurant some evening.Vikings chief operating officer Kevin Warren said players could eventually choose to live full time on the site, at either a hotel or apartment once those stages of the development are done.I think what youll see, Warren said is a lot of teams that will come after us to say, `Wow.---Online:AP NFL website: http://www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Eliaquim Mangala Manchester City Jersey . 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Aymeric Laporte Jersey . -- There were a lot of firsts for the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Defensive end Rob Ninkovich said the New England Patriots defense has a long way to go to get ready for Sept. 11 opener at Arizona.Its early in camp. We still have a lot of days here to get better, Ninkovich said Thursday. Obviously, you get pads on youre starting to build that foundation of communication.We got a long way to go here through camp. Theres no light yet.While much of the camp focus has been on the offense, which will be missing quarterback Tom Brady for the first four games because of his Deflategate suspension and has key players returning from surgery, the defense is getting used to life without Chandler Jones.The Patriots finished second in the league with 49 sacks last season -- and Jones led the way with 12 1/2 sacks. Jones was traded to Arizona during the offseason and will line up against his old team on opening night in Glendale, Arizona.Ninkovich, who had 6 1/2 sacks last season, is expected to pick up some of the production without Jones.Chan was a great teammate -- a good friend of mine, Im definitely going to miss him as a friend and I wish him nothing but the best going forward, Ninkovich said.Hes a great football player and everyone is going to have to step up without him, but thats just the name of the game.Theres always going to be change. Ive been here eight years and Ive seen a lot of guys come and go. You just have to move on and the next guys gotta perform -- thats just the name of the business.As far as opening night, and seeing Jones, Ninkovich says, You have to look at him across the field and hope he doesnt do what he does best.Defensive end Chris Long and tackle Terrance Knighton have been added to the front seven for a team that finished ninth in the league in team defense and 10th in points allowed.Cornerback Cyrus Jones was the teams top draft pick -- No. 60 in the draft -- and has looked good.I felt last year we got better throughout the season, safety Devin McCourty said. A lot of young guys -- juust trying to build on that and get that going this year.dddddddddddd.Any time you lose a great player like Chan, different guys have to step up and take on different roles, especially in our defense, he plays so many different roles. But I think were got guys here who can handle all the different situations -- maybe not one guy but a group of guys.Knighton said hes trying to learn as fast as he can to avoid be the weak link.Long likes what he sees from his new teammates, the way they go about their business. Im just trying to do the best that I can to fit in to that group, he said.Said Ninkovich: Defensively we really have to get better individually. Thats what the training camp is for, work on your fundamentals and footwork, hand placement so youre becoming a better football player. At the end of the day, when everyone is working on themselves and you come together as a team youre a better team.Weve got a long way to go.Ninkovich said the players are ready to hit someone on a different team, and theyll get the chance to do that next Tuesday and Wednesday, when the New Orleans Saints visit for joint workouts before the preseason opener next Thursday night.Game notes Tom Brady was intercepted by safety Duron Harmon for the second time in camp Thursday. ... Jimmy Garoppolo had a strong day, unofficially at 10 for 10 at one point. ... With the wide receiver position thin as Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola continue rehabbing offseason surgeries and others banged up, Chris Harper had a good day -- including beating corner Logan Ryan by 5 yards and hauling in a long pass from Brady. ... Fullback James Develin beat Ninkovich on a wheel route and caught a long pass from Garoppolo. ... Offensive lineman Bryan Stork is out, reportedly with his fourth concussion in four years.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '