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New college hockey tournament showcases Minnesota teams

Tonight at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, the inaugural North Star College Cup hockey tournament gets underway. MPR News' Cathy Wurzer spoke with Howard Sinker, a digital sports editor for the Star Tribune, about the new tournament.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Minn. curler unworried about security in Sochi

Minn. curler unworried about security in Sochi

MPR News' Cathy Wurzer spoke with one of those participants, Jessica Schultz, a physical therapist in Richfield. She is one of two Minnesotans on the U.S. Olympic women's curling team.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Russians fear a Sochi Olympics legacy of 'Black Widows,' not gold medals

Russians fear a Sochi Olympics legacy of 'Black Widows,' not gold medals

Two weeks before the Winter Olympics, Russian security forces are reportedly searching for potential suicide bombers, at least one of whom may already be in the host city of Sochi.
by Corey Flintoff

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Online donors send Jamaican bobsled team to Sochi

Online donors send Jamaican bobsled team to Sochi

After word went out that Jamaica's two-man bobsled team had qualified to compete in Sochi next month -- but didn't have money to go to Russia -- Internet donors saved the day.

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Photo: Ripping up the Metrodome

Photo: Ripping up the Metrodome

Remember how they used to say it’s “always 72 degrees inside” in the Metrodome? Not so much these days.
by Tim Nelson

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Saints ballpark wins Met Council clean-up grant

The Metropolitan Council will shoulder some of the cost of cleaning up the contaminated piece of land where St. Paul is building its new minor league ballpark.
by Curtis Gilbert

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Lawsuit dismissed, Vikings stadium builders must close finance gap

Vikings stadium builders in Minneapolis say they’re figuring out how to get financing back on track today after the Minnesota Supreme Court dismissed the final legal challenge to the facility’s funding plan. A pair of suits threatened to set back the construction, and possibly delay the opening into the 2017 season. Stadium opponent Doug Mann’s Read more →
by Tim Nelson

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Guess who's singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl?

Guess who's singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl?

She's probably not among your first, or second, or 10th, or 20th-round guesses, but the NFL announced that American soprano Renee Fleming will sing the national anthem at Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2. She's the first-ever opera singer to be given the honor
by Anastasia Tsioulcas

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Hunt is on for at least one 'black widow' in Sochi

Hunt is on for at least one 'black widow' in Sochi

Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, who was in Sochi on to assess the situation said he was impressed by the work of Russian security forces but troubled that potential suicide bombers had gotten into the city, despite all of the extraordinary security measures.
by Mark Memmott

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