North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee President & CEO Bill Lively heads to South Florida for Super Bowl XLIV

Bill Lively has been waiting for this moment for so long now. Very soon, the NFL’s greatest game and North Texas will become synonymous.

On Wednesday night he boards a flight for South Florida to celebrate with other North Texans who ponied up the big bucks at a time the U.S. economy was flailing....

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Before the Super Bowl comes to the region, Cowboys Stadium will host a different type of match up.

Way back, when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and the HKS architects were designing Cowboys Stadium, they came up with these artist renderings of just what they envisioned it to someday be.

There was one for football, of course, portraying the vision of what the stadium would look like for a Cowboys game.

There was one for soccer.

There was one for basketball.

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Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida will help prepare North Texas for the big stage

The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee and its contingent of staff, sponsors and representatives will be spreading themselves all over southern Florida for upcoming Super Bowl XLIV. This is the last time they get to watch how others put on the game, before it comes to Cowboys Stadium on Feb. 6, 2011.

Tara Green...

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The build-up to Super Bowl XLV is already having an impact in unexpected ways — just ask the staff at Woodrow Wilson High School

Think of it, if you will, as the Super Bowl’s trickle-down effect. How remarkable is it that North Texas’ first ever Super 
Bowl, still a year away, has already touched so many who would have never dreamt they’d be involved?

It is mid-January and we are in the hallway near the main entrance of the historic auditorium on the campus of East Dallas’ Woodrow Wilson High School. A member of...

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The Emerging Business Program continues to gain momentum as its second workshop looms

The emergence of the Emerging Business Program for North Texas’ first Super Bowl  promises to be one of the ongoing, magical stories of early 2010.

A second of three Emerging Business Workshops is planned for Cowboys Stadium, 9 a.m. on Feb. 25, when a stunning 1,000 women and minority business owners are expected to attend. No EBP workshop in Super Bowl history has eclipsed the 1,000...

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Three football greats kick-off “Century in the Making” voting

Former Cowboys Charlie Waters and Rayfield Wright and the great Abner Haynes cast the Century In The Making’s first honorary ballots Monday afternoon in voting for “The 100 Greatest Moments in the History of North Texas Football.”

The trio joined Fort Worth’s leading duo, the Hon. Mayor Mike Moncrief and wife Rosie, and Ed Bass, chair of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, near the...

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Area kids help put a happy face on service-learning project

To help get the word out about SLANT 45, Weber Shandwick stepped up and offered to develop a series of print, television and radio public service announcements.

Ken Luce, president of Weber’s Southwestern offices, put his Senior VP & Creative Director Ken Maxwell on the case, and Maxwell pulled in some top area talent, all willing to help what they deemed a worthy cause. Mike...

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The area’s football legends turn out to celebrate A Century in the Making

The stars came out in the daytime Tuesday at Dallas’ Woodrow Wilson High School when the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee officially presented its list of 250 magical morsels  — from which fans will ultimately select “The 100 Greatest Moments in the History of North Texas Football”.

Just take a look at these names, all in one place for one effort:

Roger Staubach and Troy...

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Century in the Making gets a star-studded start

An aging, historic auditorium on an East Dallas high school campus will be transformed Tuesday into Canton South and more.

North Texas’ living version of not only the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, but all levels of North Texas pigskin greatness will gather under one roof for one grand cause — the official kick-off for fan voting of the “100 Greatest Moments in the History...

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The build up to North Texas’ first Super Bowl has begun

This is the story of how one football game, yet to be played, has pulled together an entire region like nothing before. It’s a feel-good story that occurs during a down economy thanks to uplifting people.

Following this Super Sunday in South Florida, the game of all games is coming to North Texas. And people from every nook and cranny of a four-county area are building one very large...

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