Tag: football
Can an intelligence test forecast which quarterback draft prospects will have...
Joshua D. Pitts, Kennesaw State University
Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is slated to be selected with one of the first 10 picks in the NFL Draft.
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3 lessons for today’s teachers and students from coach Vince Lombardi
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
This Dec. 21 marks the 50th anniversary of the last football game Vince Lombardi ever coached. Remembered primarily as the helmsman...
What really causes home field advantage – and why it’s on...
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh
Never before has the away team won every single game in the World Series, but that’s exactly what happened this...
I traveled to American Samoa 5 times to study the secret...
Rob Ruck, University of Pittsburgh
With training camp in full swing, quarterback Marcus Mariota, the first Samoan Heisman Trophy winner, will be the signal caller...
Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta
Derrick P. Alridge, University of Virginia
As a historian who studies W.E.B. Du Bois – and as someone who once lived in nearby Athens, Georgia...
Is it immoral to watch football?
Francisco Javier López Frías, Pennsylvania State University and Cesar R. Torres, The College at Brockport, State University of New York
For a large swath of...
Big game days in college football linked with sexual assault
Peter Siminski, University of Technology Sydney; Isaac Swensen, Montana State University, and Jason Lindo, Texas A&M University
It’s already known that students drink and...
Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an...
Alan J. Kellner, Northwestern University
In July, I was walking with my parents through the newly constructed Titletown District in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a new...
