Minneapolis Star Tribune

This isn't going to actually happen, is it? This must be one of those popular myths, like the Loch Ness monster and tax reform. This must be one of those...

Brett Favre is paid to play football. He's been doing it most of his life, and the reality is that often the game seems to come easy to him. The...

Jahvid Best is fast, really fast. Ridiculously fast, said Minnesota Gophers linebackers coach John Butler who, like everybody else associated with the Gophers defense, has been watching hours of film...

Have a sandwich, Twiggy. In fact, go ahead and down a 6-foot sub. With cheese. Fat is suddenly fabulous, at least on TV, a realm once thought to be the...

After flirting with baseball's coveted .400 mark for nearly two months, Twins catcher Joe Mauer came to a recent conclusion. "I just don't know if it's ever going to happen...

Whether Brett Favre and Brad Childress dined by candlelight Wednesday night or sat on a bench in the backyard of Favre's Mississippi home and shot the breeze about the quarterback...

In the past year, Robert Downey Jr. earned a reputation as one of Hollywood's most versatile stars. Now, in "The Soloist," opening Friday, Downey portrays a real-life person: L.A. Times...

Taylor Hicks, the 2006 "American Idol," can't come close to matching the CD sales of either Chris Daughtry or Kellie Pickler, whom TV viewers rejected that season. But the "Idol"...

Stalin's Children By Owen Matthews Walker, 308 pages, $26 What is one to make of a regime that banned the word "charity" for its alleged bourgeois sentimentality, that excised it...

Now the Drum of War By Robert Roper Walker, 432 pages, $28 This is most definitely not the Walt Whitman you encountered in high school, or the "Good Gray Poet"...