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A power outage at the Super Bowl put the nation’s biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour Sunday, interrupting an otherwise electric game that ended with the Baltimore Ravens as NFL champions.

Get updated scoring and statistics as Wisconsin plays at Illinois. The Badgers have lost three of their last four games while the Illini have dropped five of their last six, including three straight losses at home.

Get updated scoring and statistics as No. 25 Marquette plays at No. 12 Louisville in a key Big East matchup.

A look at the past week and the week ahead for the Bucks and in the NBA.

It's right there on video for the Baltimore Ravens.

Courtesy of the Green Bay Packers, there's a step-by-step guide on how not to play the San Francisco 49ers' trendsetting read-option scheme.

Bob McGinn gives a matchup edge at each position for the Super Bowl teams.

Super Bowl infornation, five things to watch and Journal Sentinel staff views.

It'll be mass against mass at the Superdome, a clash of the big uglies in a throwback game that the Super Bowl hasn't witnessed in almost a decade.

Get updates and analysis in our live gameday blog as the Bucks, playing for the fourth time in five days, host the Magic. Milwaukee has lost seven straight in the series, but Orlando enters on an eight-game losing streak.

You understand the outpouring of affection from Green Bay Packers fans for wide receiver Donald Driver, who has decided to retire from the National Football League after 14 years, all with the Packers.

A knowing grin spread across Sean Tuohy's face as he considered the uncanny connections between the hit film that changed his family's life and the fact that Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Michael Oher will play in his first Super Bowl in the Big Easy.

Safety first.

That's what NFL players association executive director DeMaurice Smith wants and that's what NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is promising.

At some point, Colin Kaepernick's bubbly personality - the one you can catch glimpses of on the San Francisco 49ers sideline during games - will be on display more.

Some, if not most coaches in the National Football League hold grudges after they're fired. Ed Donatell, the Green Bay Packers' defensive coordinator from 2000-'03, surely isn't one of them.

If brevity doesn't necessarily make a big-game, play-by-play call special, it does make it appropriate.