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NFL gets closer to a Super Bowl showdown
After more than four months, it all comes down to Sunday to determine who ends up representing the NFC and AFC in Super Bowl XLIX on Feb. 1. The Seattle Seahawks will host the Green Bay Packers and banged-up Aaron Rodgers in Seattle (3:05 p.m. ET, Fox), where the defending Super Bowl champion Seahawks have lost just twice in two years. The Indianapolis Colts are 0-3 against the New England Patriots since quarterback Andrew Luck entered the league in 2012. But the Colts get a shot at revenge when the teams battle in Foxboro, Mass., at 6:30 p.m. ET (CBS) with Patriots coach Bill Belichick seeking his record-breaking 21st playoff win.
It seems the home teams have quite the advantage on Sunday as USA TODAY Sports' NFL staff seems relatively one-sided in its picks for both games. Follow USA TODAY Sports for updates.
Want those Bonnaroo tickets? Here's when they go on sale
Music fanatics should start prepping their typing fingers now. Tickets to the Tennessee-based music festival go on sale at noon Saturday and with this year's line-up, you won't to miss out on the action. Billy Joel will headline the event alongside Mumford and Sons and DeadMau5, but that's only the beginning. Rapper Kendrick Lamar, alt rocker Florence and the Machine and old standard Earth, Wind & Fire are just a few of the other acts performing.
Jackie O.'s handwritten letters are up for grabs
Not crazy about those chairs in your living room? Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis occasionally had interior design woes of her own and now you can own pieces of her history. Dozens of her personal notes about home décor from the 1980s and 1990s will be auctioned Saturday in Florida. The offerings are expected to go for $800 to $1200 each.
Dozens of Jacqueline Kennedy's personal notes to designers and photographs will be auctioned in Florida.(Photo: Mark Shaw, AP)
Whitney Houston's tragic rise and fall from fame explored in new biopic
Lifetime viewers will get some insight into Houston's life Saturday when Whitney makes its television debut. Directed by actress – and former costar with Houston – Angela Bassett, the biopic will focus on her career as it intertwined with controversial husband Bobby Brown. Houston's mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, has disavowed the TV movie, while Brown is participating in an interview on Lifetime at 10 p.m. ET/PT Saturday, in conjunction with the movie.
Terrence Ford, 31, of Laurel, Md, and Kisha Stephens, 32, of Ellicott City, Md., get a glimpse of the hearse carrying Whitney Houston's body to New Hope Baptist Church. At right is Catherine Graham-Ross of Montclair, N.J., who is holding small binoculars to get a closer look. Kisha got emotional when she saw the hearse and said, "I could have gone my whole life without seeing that."<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Eileen Blass USAT)
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The Pope closes his visit to the Philippines with solemn weekend
His holiness closes his five-day trip to the Philippines this weekend after spending the later part of the week meeting with the nation's large Catholic population. Pope Francis on Saturday had to cut short his trip to Tacloban, in the central Philippines, because of an approaching storm. There, he met survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 5,000 people in November 2013. His visit to the country culminates Sunday with a public Mass in Manila's Rizal Park that is expected to draw up to 6 million people. He returns to the Vatican Monday.
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Oscar nominations were announced this week. Take a look at our Oscar nominated (and not-so-nominated) movie guide.
Penn State accepted harsh NCAA sanctions in 2012 to avert a potential shutdown of its football program, but an investigation finds there wasn't a lot of support for its end.
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