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Photos: Highlights from Cris Carter's career

Photos: Highlights from Cris Carter's career

Long-time Vikings wide receiver Cris Carter was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame over the weekend. Here are some highlights from his playing career, which he spent most of in Minnesota.

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Vikings' Cris Carter: From housing projects to NFL Hall of Fame

Vikings' Cris Carter: From housing projects to NFL Hall of Fame

Cris Carter partly attributed his success to a strong family, including his mother, who he said raised him and his six brothers and sisters on her own.
by Steven John

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Metrodome’s field painted for the Vikings final season there

Metrodome’s field painted for the Vikings final season there

They’re putting finishing touches on Mall of America field today — literally. Painters are applying the field markings and logos on the turf in the Metrodome for the last time this week, ahead of what will be the last season for the Vikings in the stadium. “Straightest lines in the NFL,” said Leo Pidde, the…
by Tim Nelson

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Alex Rodriguez, others suspended by MLB for drugs

Alex Rodriguez, others suspended by MLB for drugs

In the the most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal nearly a century ago, 13 Major League Baseball players have been disciplined in a drug case. Alex Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 and Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece.

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Minn. businessman competing in X Games

The founder of a prosthetic knee manufacturer based in Pillager, Minn., is competing this weekend in an extreme sports competition in Los Angeles.
by Annie Baxter

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Here’s one solution for the Vikings stadium traffic problems

Here’s one solution for the Vikings stadium traffic problems

MnDOT has released the very, very preliminary drawings of how they think they're going to solve one of the traffic problems posed by the new Vikings stadium.
by Tim Nelson

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Minnesota Vikings' DeMarcus Love suspended

The NFL announced today that Minnesota Vikings tackle DeMarcus Love has been suspended for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs.
by Jon Collins

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MLB will likely suspend big names in steroid scandal

MLB will likely suspend big names in steroid scandal

Major League Baseball may hand out 50-game suspensions to 13 players and a lifetime ban for one as a result of its investigation into Biogenesis of America.

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Major League Soccer outlines expansion plans, mentions Minnesota

Major League Soccer outlines expansion plans, mentions Minnesota

Major League Soccer had its All Star game in Kansas City last night and as it is with all such gatherings, there was some discussion about the future of the league and the sport. And Minneapolis. MLS commissioner Don Garber (that’s him, above) said during the halftime broadcast that the league would like to expand…
by Tim Nelson

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AP Source: MLB threatening A-Rod with lifetime ban

Major League Baseball is threatening to kick Alex Rodriguez out of the game for life unless the New York Yankees star agrees not to fight a lengthy suspension for his role in the sport's latest drug scandal, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

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