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Hard-nosed defense defined the Denver Broncos’ victory over the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, but television viewers weren’t turned off by the lack of offensive fireworks.

Advertisers played it safe and light with the most expensive ever Super Bowl ad slots on Sunday, shunning previous years' attempts to be outrageous, emotional or thought-provoking.

Coldplay headlined at Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show, but it was R&B super stars Beyonce and Bruno Mars who delivered the sizzle with a lively, upbeat production that paid homage to previous halftime performers.

The Denver Broncos upset the top-seeded Carolina Panthers to win Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, giving quarterback Peyton Manning the chance to call a fairytale ending to his storied career.

Like so many of the NFL’s championship games, Super Bowl 50 is a tale of two quarterbacks: aging Denver Broncos gunslinger Peyton Manning, who may be playing his last game, and Carolina Panthers star Cam Newton, the brash 26-year-old who seems destined to replace him as the league’s most marketable player.

Experts estimate that a mere 1% of Super Bowl ticket sales involve counterfeits. But with the average price of a Super Bowl 50 ticket hovering near $5,000 this week and the cheapest available seats selling for more than $3,000, a bad buy can be a crippling blow to a victim’s finances.

Law enforcement authorities are engaging in a massive, collaborative effort to safeguard the hundreds of thousands of civilians traveling to the San Francisco Bay area for Super Bowl 50.

Let’s face it--there’s as much hype around Super Bowl ads as there is the actual game.

The company behind the NFL’s Super Bowl 50 Stadium App promises to deliver fans attending the big game a high-tech experience fitting for the Silicon Valley setting.

The San Francisco Bay area is in for a big payday this week as tens of thousands of tourists descend on the region ahead of Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. But experts are divided on exactly how much of a benefit the Big Game really provides for a local economy.

Football fans can place money on everything from whether Panthers quarterback Cam Newton will have a record-setting performance to which song Coldplay will play first during this year’s halftime show.

Super Bowl 50 tickets are slightly cheaper on the secondary market than they were about a week ago, according to data from resale sites.