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Bill Belichick Calls Criticism of Pete Carroll ‘Out of Line’

New England Patriots’ Coach Bill Belichick, largely seen as a ruthless tactician who has often exhibited less-than-gracious behavior, showed great magnanimity toward opposing Super Bowl coach Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks when asked about the controversial Seahawk play call that resulted in Malcolm Butler’s game-sealing interception.

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Ratings: Super Bowl Hits All-Time High

Football’s biggest night of the year is unquestionably the Super Bowl. Preliminary ratings show that Sunday’s game hit a record high with 72% of televisions watching. That should add up to somewhere around 115 million viewers and an all-time record.

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Super Bowl 2015: New England Patriots Win

The Seahawks are playing to win back-to-back Super Bowls in an age of extreme parity. Controversy swirls around the Patriots yet again at a Super Bowl played in Arizona, but it should not take away from Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s third attempt to join Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana, his boyhood idol while growing up in the Bay Area, as the only quarterbacks with four Super Bowl rings. This game is truly a pick ’em.

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Obama Touts Economic Proposals in Pre-Super Bowl Interview

In the traditional pre-Super Bowl interview, President Barack Obama discussed the Chicago Bears, beer, snacks and politics from the White House kitchen with “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie. Obama touted his economic policy vision set forth in his State of

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SNL Mocks Seahawks in Pre-Super Bowl Show

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” took a jab at the Seattle Seahawks one week after making fun of the New England Patriots for “Deflategate.” In the sketch, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman and running back Marshawn Lynch host a Super Bowl preview

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Super Bowl Cities See Spike in Deaths of Elderly Flu Patients

The 2014-15 flu season has been a particularly dangerous one across the country, especially for vulnerable elderly patients. Researchers have also found that cities that have either hosted or sent teams to the Super Bowl have experienced an 18 percent higher death rate of elderly flu patients than other cities.

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Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll an Icon to 9/11 Truthers

As the Seattle Seahawks ready to compete in another Super Bowl to the delight of team’s loud and loyal fans, head coach Pete Carroll has become an icon with a group who backs him not because of his accomplishments on the gridiron. The 9/11 Truther movement has adopted Carroll as a celebrity icon.

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GoDaddy Pulls Super Bowl Ad After PETA Outrage

Web hosting company GoDaddy is notorious for airing risqué Super Bowl ads, however the content in this year’s spot is causing the company to cancel a planned advertisement and apologize, after drawing the ire of animal rights activists.

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Mayor of Glendale: We’ll Lose Money on the Super Bowl

It is the conventional wisdom that any city awarded the opportunity to host the Super Bowl will reap a major financial benefit. But the bloom may be off that rose as the mayor of the city of Glendale, Arizona, now says that they may actually lose money with this year’s game.

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