Vikings stadium

• After years of fits and starts, the Minnesota Vikings moved a big step closer to having a new home when the state's top political leaders unveiled a tentative agreement to build a $975 million stadium next to the aging Metrodome in Minneapolis.
(New York Times)
• ST. PAUL, Minn. - Gov.
(YAHOO!)
• MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Minnesota Vikings have reached a tentative $975 million deal with state and local officials to build a new public stadium for the National Football League team near the current Metrodome in Minneapolis, officials said on Thursday.
(YAHOO!)
• ST. PAUL — Smiles surrounding a Minnesota Vikings stadium announcement seemed to indicate victory, but in reality they represented something else: a beginning.
(Duluth News Tribune)
• ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Gov.
(CBS Sports)
• ST. PAUL, Minn. — Gov. Mark Dayton and the owners of the Minnesota Vikings said Thursday theyve got a preliminary agreement to build the team a new stadium in Minneapolis.
(Marketplace.publicradio.org)
• ST. PAUL, Minn. — The new Minnesota Vikings stadium deal unveiled Thursday faces a hurdle at the Minneapolis City Council, where a majority of council members have opposed similar stadium plans in the past.
(Marketplace.publicradio.org)
• ST. PAUL – Minnesota legislators hope to vote on a Vikings stadium this session, but many said the details still are missing. "I'm just full of questions," Rep. Mary Murphy, DFL-Hermantown, said hours a stadium proposal was released Thursday.
(Grand Forks Herald)
• With news surfacing Thursday morning that the Vikings are on the verge of a deal that will give them a new downtown stadium, the excitement across the state seems palpable.
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• Mayor R.T. Rybak said on Thursday that Minneapolis can invest $338 million in a new Vikings stadium without triggering a referendum, despite a charter mandate that calls for a citywide vote on any sports subsidy of $10 million or more.
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)