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After losing Super Bowl 50, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton raised eyebrows by stalking out in the middle of a news conference. Since that night Newton has been called a “sore loser” for his behavior. But the QB now essentially says “so what?” to those accusations.

After Beyoncé’s halftime performance at Super Bown 50, the Black Panther-beret-wearing dancers posed with a sign that read “Justice 4 Mario Woods.“

When Beyonce and backup dancers blended Black Panthers with Black Lives Matter at the Super Bowl, they missed their own irony. The NFL in allowing the spectacle on its grandest stage missed, again, its own idiocy.

President Obama surprised viewers of The Late Show by appearing via a pretaped interview at the White House, which aired after the Super Bowl on CBS.

Singer Beyoncé Knowles brought black liberation politics to the Super Bowl halftime show Sunday in a performance that appeared to pay tribute to the Black Panthers.

It has been 15 years since a team compiled fewer passing yards in a Super Bowl — and 41 years since a team had fewer passing yards and won the Super Bowl. But in a defensive struggle, Peyton Manning avoided the miscues of his adversary that led to the difference in the game.

Lady Gaga delivered an emotional performance of the National Anthem ahead of Super Bowl 50, and the early consensus on social media is that she nailed it.

As our astronauts orbit nearly 250 miles above the earth they are by necessity cut off from much of what we enjoy down here on this blue marble. But this year the Super Bowl isn’t going to be one of those

During tonight’s debate, occurring on the eve of the Super Bowl, ABC moderator David Muir asked Republicans a simple question: Who do you think will win the Super Bowl. The North Carolina Panthers or the Denver Broncos?

A number of wealthy people using private jets are landing in northern California for the Super Bowl, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

“Bring your lucky jersey, bring your face paint, bring your team spirit … but leave your drones at home,” warns the the Federal Aviation Administration in regards to Super Bowl Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

If only Eugene Robinson, the former Atlanta Falcons safety, had spoken to the Denver Broncos instead of the Carolina Panthers, safety Ryan Murphy might not have been sent home for getting caught up, but not ultimately arrested, in a prostitution sting.

Although Peyton Manning protested on Monday night that he doesn’t know if he will retire after the Super Bowl, evidence from his private conversations indicates that the 39-year-old quarterback will indeed call it quits after Sunday’s game.

Super Bowl 50 is just over a week away, and European-owned Anheuser-Busch has enlisted liberal Hollywood America-haters Seth Rogen and Amy Schumer to pitch the company’s Bud Light brand in a new ad.

On Sunday, in Sunnyvale, California, roughly two dozen volunteers, including many teenagers, joined the Grateful Garment Project, an organization based in San Jose, California, to stuff survival backpacks for victims of sex trafficking during Super Bowl week.

The simple three-step predictor correctly picked the Denver Broncos upset and the Carolina Panthers win to improve to 12-4 (75% correct) in Conference Championships and Super Bowls since 2009. And it projects a clear winner in the Super Bowl.

After throttling Arizona on Sunday by a count of 49-15, Carolina heads to the Super Bowl for the second time in franchise history. The team is talented on both sides of the ball and their coaching staff meshes perfectly with personnel. Panthers football is all about execution and fun. But while the schemes and game plans that have led them to a 17-1 record thus far have been applauded, the enthusiasm and effervescence they bring to the field has been sadly panned by too many.

A common indicator stronger than quarterback rating or defensive points allowed suggests two teams have an edge in the conference championship games Sunday.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicts the Patriots will return to the Super Bowl, on the shoulders of their star quarterback Tom Brady.

In an almost unheard of turn of events, more Americans watched the college basketball national title game than the college football national championship, as the ratings disaster continued for ESPN.

Super Bowl 50 will feature the British rock band Coldplay as its halftime act on February 7.

Losers in the Houston “bathroom ordinance” election are saying they are going to boycott Houston’s economy and are asking the NFL to move the Super Bowl. Houston has been named as the site of the 2017 Super Bowl.

To commemorate the upcoming 50th Super Bowl, the NFL has mandated that every team paint their 50-yard line markers gold. But the Oakland Raiders refused to add gold to their silver and black.

The iconic Spirit of America Goodyear blimp has floated off into the sunset of retirement, to be replaced eventually by the technologically superior semi-rigid airship, Wingfoot One.

A new website that purports to chronicle how every team in the NFL cheats promises to “spread the truth” about how often professional football teams bend, break, and shatter the rules.

The children of Santa Clara are fighting a proposal by the San Francisco 49ers to use the city’s public soccer park for stadium parking in exchange for $15 million in rent over 39 years.

According to Deadline, the total and 18-49 demo ratings for Sunday night’s pretty dreadful Oscar telecast drooped a considerable 14% over last year, reaching the lowest total number of viewers in 7 years.  Just 34.6 million tuned in last night.

On Monday, Doug Baldwin, the wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks, decided to use an orifice much farther north than the one he pretended to use in Super Bowl XLIX.

Tom Brady wants to give the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado truck he won as the MVP of Super Bowl 49 to game-winning hero Malcolm Butler, but the Internal Revenue Service is going to make him pay for that act of gratitude

The only man with five rings calls the newest member of the four-ring club a cheater.

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.

Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, who has entertained thoughts of conspiracies before, notably one surrounding 9/11/2001, may not be so entertained by a conspiracy theory revolving around his end-of-game Super Bowl play call that went awry and sealed the doom of his team.

Fans didn’t know Malcolm Butler and Chris Matthews before the Super Bowl. They know the Patriots defensive back and the Seahawks receiver now.

The Super Bowl celebration for New Englanders and their beloved Patriots will have to wait another day as Boston continues to get battered by heavy snow.

Media morality watchdog The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE) issued a statement Monday questioning NBC’s decision to air both a domestic violence PSA and a trailer for the “sexually violent” film Fifty Shades of Grey during Sunday night’s Super Bowl broadcast.

The Super Bowl is known as much for its ads as for its football. This year, those ads seemed oddly disconnected from the sporting event.