Sports

Saints cheated in playoff win over Vikings
The NFL says players were paid to injure opposition players, including the year the Saints beat the Vikings in the NFC championship game.
It will be next week before the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources knows when a new online and phone reservation system will be back in service.
At first blush, the new proposal to build a football stadium for the Minnesota Vikings in downtown Minneapolis would cost just under $1 billion. But a closer look shows the cost might be higher than that, and that some of the money stadium supporters are counting on may not materialize.
Here are the financial numbers and a schematic of the stadium property, as released by the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission.
$975M Vikings stadium deal announced for Minneapolis
The Minnesota Vikings could stay in downtown Minneapolis, in a new stadium on the existing Metrodome site, under an agreement announced Thursday by the team, the city and state officials.
$975M Vikings stadium deal announced for Minneapolis
The Minnesota Vikings could stay in downtown Minneapolis, in a new stadium on the existing Metrodome site, under an agreement announced Thursday by the team, the city and state officials.
Gambling revenue to pay for stadium is risky
Paying for a new NFL stadium could depend on millions of dollars in new gambling revenue. But new data show gaps between the promise and the reality of gambling expansion around the country — at times, wide gaps.