The Chicago Bears and local schools are $100 million apart on the property tax valuations of the former Arlington International Racecourse, where the team wants to build an enclosed stadium. The huge gap means that the two sides are likely … Continued
When the Chicago White Sox unveiled a sparkling new stadium on 35th Street in 1991, owner Jerry Reinsdorf declared he was “awestruck” at its beauty and predicted it wouldn’t “take a back seat” to any stadium in Major League Baseball … Continued
Fresh out of the all-star game in which their top two stars played — one scoring 50 points — and their staff coached the Western Conference side, the Timberwolves had a chance to strut their stuff in front of the … Continued
The Gophers’ 2-1 win over the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs in a shootout on Friday night at Ridder Arena was not as dramatic as so many of the previous meetings in the storied rivalry. With one game to play in the regular … Continued
Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans on a private conference call Friday night that their disunity has ceded leverage to Democrats ahead of the government shutdown deadline next week, according to two people on the call. Johnson and the House’s … Continued
An imprisoned man’s long legal fight for a lighter sentence in the 2008 stabbing deaths of a mother and her young son in south Minneapolis has ended with the now-32-year-old resentenced Friday to two concurrent life sentences with the possibility … Continued