Phil Miller of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: Kevin Love flashed back Saturday to his UCLA days. Or maybe even earlier. “My parents never let me play football,” the Wolves forward said, “and I always wanted to be a quart...

Though it appears that the Bears plan to pay running back Chester Taylor to become a featured player in the new Mike Martz offense, the Vikings haven't given up yet.According to Judd Zulgad of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Vikin...

It appears as though the New Orleans Jazz Fest won’t be Simon & Garfunkel’s “only” U.S. appearance of 2010: Both Minnesota’s Star Tribune and North Dakota’s Grand Forks Herald report that the duo will perform at Fargo’s Fargodome on...

It has become a foregone conclusion of late that, come midnight, the Vikings and running back Chester Taylor will part ways.Still, Judd Zulgad of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that agent Ken Sarnoff is still talking to the Vi...

On Wednesday, our Tribune colleague Sandra M. Jones reported on another casualty of the economy: men's neckwear sales. The upshot of it is, although suit sales rebounded to end 2009 nearly unchanged, the number of ties sold in the U...

Sources: Marek Zidlicky contract expected to be agreed upon before day's end: 3 years, $12 million Michael Russo Minneapolis Star Tribune ...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: Timberwolves basketball player Al Jefferson was arrested and booked into jail early this morning for allegedly driving drunk, according to jail records, and the Wolves immediately responded by s...

Certainly, some Al Jefferson with the same birthday as the Wolves center got pulled over and charged with a DWI last night. A Star Tribune blogger says it's him; we've put in a query with the team. [Hennepin County Sheriff] ...

Here are a couple of stories similar to thousands playing out across the country, and tens of thousands more to come. The second article gets to the heart of the upcoming commercial real estate bust.The Minneapolis Star Tribune is r...

A complaint filed in federal court last week "alleges Medtronic Inc. illegally marketed a relatively obscure medical device called a biliary stent in ways not approved by federal regulators," The (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star Tribune ...

Remember those awesome pants worn by the Norwegian curling team? The Norwegian King will now have a pair. (The Star)Did Japanese figure skater Mao Asada peak too soon? (Chicago Tribune)Ice dancing can show the Olympics at its best a...

Starting this semester, second-year students at the University of Minnesota Medical School will practice pelvic exams on mannequins instead of human patients, the AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. According to school officials, o...

MinnPost.com In an upcoming "Freelance Love" event, the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists will give hungry freelancers "five minutes of guaranteed face time" with assigning editors from the Star Tribune, Pion...

This is the second business section health news story we've questioned today. But we're not the only ones. A Star Tribune headline screamed, "Blockage Breakthrough" on behalf of a local company's hopes for its coronary artery interv...

The Health Care Summit? Just Do It The Minneapolis Star Tribune All of us who have been at this task before understand three important realities: One, no president who has launched such an effort unsuccessfully has ever been able to...

Yikes! According to a new poll by the Texas Tribune and the University of Texas, a disturbingly high number of Lone Star State residents think “The Flintstones” is a documentary. Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosa...

A judge says that for Kevin and Pat Williams's cases to proceed, they have to prove they are employed by the NFL, while the league maintains they are solely Vikings employees. Does Deadspin LLP care to weigh in? [Star Tribune] ...

The Star Tribune’s Neal St. Anthony writes in his column that after Sarah Dillon sold about 2,000 of her “GoGirls” every day of last summer’s Minnesota State Fair, a friend offered that Dillon was a threat to become the “Betty Crock...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposal to cut a net of $347 million from programs for sick, aged, disabled and jobless people is akin to the advice an ailing George Washington got from his doctors 210 years ago,...

Are Republicans more interested in playing politics than doing what's right for the country? Well let's examine the news just from this morning: An examination by the Minneapolis Star Tribune of the state budget Tim Pawlenty release...