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December 28, 2012 2:08 PM

Fasching is new football coach at St. John's

St. John's has hired assistant Gary Fasching to replace John Gagliardi, the all-time college football leader in coaching victories.

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December 28, 2012 12:45 PM

Minn. Gophers ready for Texas Tech in bowl game

The Minnesota Gopher football team is playing in a bowl game for the first time since 2009 tonight, facing Texas Tech in the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Houston. The Golden Gophers won six games this season, which is the same number of games they won in the previous two seasons combined.

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December 28, 2012 12:07 PM

NHL makes offer; lockout at critical stage

The NHL made a new proposal to the players' association, hoping to spark talks to end the long lockout and save the hockey season.

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December 28, 2012 11:56 AM

Mankato coach wants police files sealed

Minnesota State University, Mankato, head football coach Todd Hoffner, who was cleared of child pornography charges last month that stemmed from videos found on his cellphone of his naked children clowning around after a bath, is suing to keep the police investigative reports sealed.

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December 28, 2012 9:48 AM

A big weekend for Minnesota football fans

Joining MPR's Cathy Wurzer with more is Howard Sinker, Digital Sports Editor for the Star Tribune.

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December 28, 2012 6:45 AM

Unflappable Frazier leads Vikings to playoff brink

"Just his voice and what he has brought to this team and the locker room, it's been huge," Adrian Peterson said. "Guys really connect with him on that level. Just feeling his presence through his words and the confidence he has in us. Everything he speaks out there, we embrace and trust in his word."

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December 27, 2012 3:07 PM

Minnesota Sounds & Voices: Dean McFarlane, last in a line of stone carvers

Dean McFarlane is a 10th-generation master stone carver. His great-grandfather started the Minneapolis-based family stone carving company in 1916. But the line ends with McFarlane: There are no family members waiting in the wings to become master stone carvers.

by Dan Olson

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December 27, 2012 2:23 PM

Big-time football's place in higher education

Historian Brian Ingrassia speaks about the origins of college football in the late 1800's and traces the evolution of the sport to a multi-million dollar athletic spectacle on university campuses. His new book is "The Rise of the Gridiron University: Higher Education's Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football." He spoke November 9, 2012 at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Arkansas.