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By Andrew Both Reuters More than 100 million Americans are expected to watch this year's Super Bowl, but there are about 7 billion people in the rest of the world who may not be so captivated. The NFL has a loyal following in countries including Britain, Australia, Canada...

An unlikely turn of events that started late in the NFC Championship Game turned more bizarre for the Green Bay Packers. Head coach Mike McCarthy abruptly postponed his season-ending news conference scheduled for late Wednesday morning. Also scrapped was subsequent media availability...

The Rosemount boys basketball team started last week with a 10-minute scoring drought and never really got going offensively during a couple of South Suburban Conference losses. The Irish overcame the slow start and a 20-10 halftime deficit to take a one-point lead in the...

Frank Haney and Noah Peterson won events, but the Irish didn’t have the depth to advance through Saturday’s Section 3AA True Team meet. In the True Team meet, points are scored by each team’s top four finishers in each event. The format favored Prior Lake, which scored...

The Rosemount gymnastics team showcased its depth during a second-place finish at Saturday’s Park Invite. With three regulars missing from the lineup, including all-around standout Abby Nelson, the fifth-ranked (Class 2A) Irish still turned in their third best score of the...

Now that the NFL investigation has reportedly found 11 of New England's 12 allotted game footballs in the AFC Championship Game were underinflated, the topic continues to be the talk around the nation and league whether the Patriots cheated. Reports surfaced after the Patriots...

New England has the Boston Tea Party and cream pie, Seattle has Starbucks and marijuana but only one will be crowned Super Bowl champions after an East Coast versus West Coast clash of teams as different as the cities they represent. It will be Beantown versus the Emerald City...

By Jeff Reynolds Before the biggest game of his life, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Brad Johnson paid $7,500 to guarantee the 100 game balls provided by the NFL were personalized to his liking before Super Bowl XXXVII. Letting the air out of the ball before the 2014...

The New England Patriots and Bill Belichick lost their only game against the Seattle Seahawks during the Russell Wilson-Pete Carroll era, 24-23 in 2012. The memories of that game are distant and unglorious in Foxborough, Mass. "Not a lot of great ones," Belichick said Tuesday. Patriots'...

A second-quarter interception by Indianapolis Colts inside linebacker D'Qwell Jackson started the ball rolling into the investigation of the New England Patriots possibly intentionally deflating footballs. According to Newsday, Jackson's pick in the second quarter, with the Colts...