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Bay Bowl: San Francisco to host 50th Super Bowl
Build a new stadium, host the Super Bowl to show it off. The NFL rewarded the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday with hosting rights for the 2016 championship game, slotting the 50th Super Bowl in the 49ers' high-tech Santa Clara stadium scheduled to open next year. The league also ...
The 50th Super Bowl goes to San Francisco Bay Area
The NFL will celebrate its 50th Super Bowl in northern California, where its newest, most high-tech venue is being built. That makes South Florida, in the midst of a spat over expensive stadium renovations, a loser for the 2016 game. And Miami took a double defeat when Houston was awarded ...
Indy poised to make 2018 bid for Super Bowl
Now that the NFL has picked its two newest Super Bowl winners, San Francisco and Houston, Indianapolis organizers can start making their pitch to host a second title game. Later this summer, the city's bid committee is expected to formally approve a motion that would allow the formal bidding process ...
Super Bowl 50 site to be decided Tuesday
Where the Super Bowl will celebrate a half-century of existence will be decided this week by NFL owners. They have two choices for the 50th anniversary game in 2016: the San Francisco Bay Area and South Florida. The 49ers' new stadium is being built and is scheduled to open for ...
Bills promote Whaley to take over as GM
Doug Whaley was promoted to take over as Buffalo Bills general manager, making the team's near top-to-bottom offseason overhaul complete. The much-anticipated decision to elevate Whaley from his position as assistant GM was announced Thursday, three days after Buddy Nix stepped down as GM. The 40-year-old Whaley has spent the ...
Bruins, Rangers to carry on Boston-New York lore
After the marathon bombings, the cities of Boston and New York put aside their bitter rivalries and joined in their mutual love of sports and country. Well, that time may be ending, at least when it comes to sports. The Knicks beat the Celtics in an NBA first-round playoff series ...
Bengals sign 2 more draft picks
The Bengals signed two more of their draft choices on Monday, leaving five of their 10 picks under contract. Linebacker Sean Porter from Texas A&M, a fourth-round pick, and running back Rex Burkhead from Nebraska, taken in the sixth round, agreed to deals one day after the team's rookie minicamp ...
Former Jets WR George Sauer dies at 69
George Sauer had a huge day in the biggest game in New York Jets history, and then surprisingly walked away from football a few years later. Sauer, a wide receiver on the Jets' only Super Bowl championship team, has died. He was 69. The team and Moreland Funeral Home in ...
49ers reach stadium naming rights deal with Levi's
The future home of the San Francisco 49ers will be called Levi's Stadium. The 49ers and Levi Strauss & Co. announced an agreement Wednesday for a $220 million, 20-year naming rights deal for the team's stadium in Santa Clara. Levi's CEO Chip Bergh and 49ers CEO Jed York announced the ...
Stadium decision hurts Miami's Super Bowl chances
As Dan Marino campaigned for Miami to be chosen the site of the 50th Super Bowl, he made no pretense about being objective on the subject. "In my opinion," the former Dolphins quarterback said, "every Super Bowl should be here." Instead, the NFL championship game might not return to Miami ...
Steelers rookie LB Jarvis Jones settling in
Jarvis Jones is not James Harrison. For one thing, there's the hair. The rookie Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker has long dreadlocks that appear under his helmet and skitter across his name when he sprints into the backfield. There's the body, too. The 6-foot-2, 245-pound Jones is taller, leaner and wispier ...
Email: Feds aware of power outage tweets made before Super Bowl
An email from Homeland Security officials indicates that the federal government investigated postings made on Twitter about the Super Bowl power outage before the event happened. Cox Washington bureau reporter Scott MacFarlane obtained the emails on Friday. One email sent at 9:54 p.m. states "Digital Sandbox, at the New Orleans ...
Babineaux hoping Falcons boost defense in draft
Defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux said Tuesday he'd like to see the Falcons make defense their top priority in this week's NFL draft. Some important names were missing from the 2012 defense when Atlanta returned this week to begin its offseason program. Defensive end John Abraham and cornerback Dunta Robinson were ...
Some games take points to win, others take fans
It's a Super Bowl matchup for the ages: cats vs. dogs. The Puppy Bowl, a fixture on Animal Planet during the Super Bowl for nearly a decade, will have new competition next year from the Kitten Bowl, the Hallmark Channel announced this month. "We would like to own the day," ...
Sites to be settled for college football playoff
With the how and when of college football playoffs determined, it's time to lock in the where. The conference commissioners in charge of putting together the four-team playoff system that will start after the 2014 regular season will meet starting Tuesday in Pasadena, Calif. At the top of their agenda: ...
Move over Puppy Bowl, here come the kitties
Perhaps someone at the Hallmark Channel noted the proliferation of cat videos on the Internet, or possibly someone just thought felines should have equal time when it comes to faux sporting events. For whatever reason, the 2014 Superbowl will now have a new foe fighting for eyeballs -- the Kitten ...
Ravens fans love their Super Bowl champs
Fans toast their team, with a parade from City Hall to the Ravens' stadium.
Ranking best, worst ads of Super Bowl XLVII
Magid Advertising Performance identified the most -- and lesat -- successful Super Bowl ads.
Action from Super Bowl XLVII
A look at the action from the Superdome in New Orleans at Super Bowl XLVII.
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