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Fans are wondering about the fate of football in St. Louis as a deadline approaches for a plan to upgrade the home of the Rams. Next Wednesday, Feb. 1, is the deadline for the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission to outline how it will transform the Edward Jones Dome into a "first-tier" stadium by 2015. If it fails to do so, the Rams can break their lease %u2014 and potentially move %u2014 after the 2014 season.

We learned last week that former NFL star Chris McAlister, a three-time Pro Bowler, is broke and living with his parents after just a year out of the league. But he's hardly the first sports icon to blow through the cash in a flash. In his honor, here are our 10 favorite professional asset-annihilating athletes.

Expect to pay more this year for many consumer goods -- from diapers to toothpaste to Big Macs. Just as the typical American family will finally have a few more dollars to spend, inflation will take a chunk of that extra cash.

Ticket prices to National Football League games continue to rise, according to a new study by Team Marketing Report. The average ticket to a game rose 4.5% to $76.47, according to the report's 2010 Fan Cost Index survey. The NFL's average for premium seats is $238.94, up 5.6% from last season. The...

National Football League Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto will leave the league after two years and return to Goldman Sachs Group, the league said on its website today.

The immediacy of social media is a hazard for some old-school journalists like Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise, who posted a phony news story on Twitter to demonstrate how easy it is to start rumors there. Now he's been suspended from his job for a month.

We won't be seeing Kirstie Alley on ABC's hit "Dancing With The Stars" because she's "too chicken," according to Alley's Twitter account. Alley, 59, was rumored to be one of the contestants putting on their dancing shoes for the TV series when it returns for its eleventh season next month. She...

This may come to no surprise to many of you that have read my work as a financial writer, but I am what my wife calls a "walking head injury." I played football from the age of six until 19, when I was told my college football career had to end -- more on that in a minute. Having gotten my "bell...

Just a couple of years ago, the only practical way to get your Sunday afternoon National Football League fix was to watch CBS (CBS) or Fox (NWS). To get additional games, you'd have to go to your local sports bar or pay up for your own DirecTV (DTV) NFL package. Now, there is another way. Last...

Add old-fashioned phone lines, known as land lines, to the list of soon-to-be-extinct things that still have plenty of value. Verizon (VZ) agreed to sell 4.8 million land lines to Frontier Communications (FTR) for about $8.6 billion in stock and cash yesterday. Verizon wants to focus on its...