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After Dumping a Foot of Snow in Midwest, Storm Heads East

MINNEAPOLIS -- A major snow storm dealt another winter wallop to Wisconsin, Michigan and northern Ohio on Monday as it moved east out of Minnesota leaving more than a foot of fresh snow in its wake. Operations were returning to normal at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after the storm prompted Delta...

TCF Bank Stadium's 'Hard as Concrete' Field Ready for Vikings-Bears Game

It's gonna be a cold one. The University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium staff spent the weekend scrambling to soften the frozen field for Monday night's showdown between the displaced Minnesota Vikings and their NFC North division rival, the Chicago Bears. While university athletics spokesman Garry Bowman said the field...

NFL Confirms Bears-Vikings Game Will Be Held at TCF Bank Stadium

It's official: The Minnesota Vikings will play an outdoor home game for the first time in 29 years on Monday night. The NFL issued a press release Friday announcing that the Vikings' game versus the Bears Monday will be played at TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota. The venue changed because of damage to the...

Study: Victoria's Secret Bags Have Sexy Side Effect

(Sept. 23) -- Transporting thongs and push-up bras isn't the only purpose for a Victoria's Secret shopping bag. Some women turn theirs into a purse. Others store their lunch in them. And now new research hints at a universal rationale for the bags' second lives as accessories. Women feel sexy simply holding it. The...

Kyle Okposo to Make NHL Debut Tuesday

Back in December, we brought you the Soap Opera story of Isles' draftee Kyle Okposo (no relation to mythical monster, Ogopogo), and the love triangle he was caught in with Isles' GM Garth Show and University of Minnesota coach Don Lucia.Boy, was it nasty! Snow claimed Lucia was a poor coach that was stifling Okposo's...