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The Bemidji State basketball programs are still looking for a break. Both BSU men and women are in the midst of long losing streaks — seven for the men and six for the women — which both hope to snap this weekend when they take on Winona State and Upper Iowa. The Beavers are...

PHOENIX -- Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn is days away from possibly winning another Super Bowl and being named a head coach for the first time. "They are getting a great coach," Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner said of Quinn, who is expected to be introduced...

PHOENIX - Federal authorities and the National Football League have seized $19.5 million worth of fake sports memorabilia as part of a year-long crackdown on counterfeit goods, they said on Thursday. Authorities said over 325,000 counterfeit items, including jerseys, hats and Super...

PHOENIX - As fans gather for Sunday's Super Bowl in Arizona, billboard trucks are expected to travel around Phoenix with messages reminding revelers of what critics see as an inadequate NFL response to domestic violence involving star NFL players. Dispatched by an anti-sexism group...

PHOENIX - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has been fighting a cold for nearly a week but said on Wednesday he expects to be fine for Sunday's Super Bowl showdown with the defending champion Seattle Seahawks. Brady sniffled his way through a 45-minute news conference,...

Former NFL players who began playing tackle football before age 12 are more likely to suffer from memory and thinking problems than those who took up the game later, a new study has found. The findings, published on Wednesday in the scientific journal Neurology, come amid heightened...

In surpassing John Elway's record of five Super Bowl starts at quarterback and, with a chance to match Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw as a four-time winner, Tom Brady is moving into territory that calls for a serious assessment of his place in NFL history. Deflated footballs, or...

The NFL team investigating why 11 of 12 footballs used by the New England Patriots in their AFC Championship Game win were underinflated has asked the physics department at Columbia University for help, according to The New York Times. The newspaper reported that a partner at the...

Whenever Marshawn Lynch decides to leave the National Football League, one thing is for certain: It will be on his terms. OK, two things. He also won't pop up six months later as an analyst for the NFL Network, and he is not going to kick Jon Gruden out of the color role on...