Tag: football
New evidence of discrimination against Black coaches in the NFL since...
Joshua D. Pitts, Kennesaw State University
Boldly going where no NFL coach has gone before, recently fired Miami Dolphins...
Online abuse in sport: why athletes are targeted and how they...
Wasim Ahmed, University of Stirling and Jenny Meggs, Lancaster University
For some sports stars, a certain level of adulation...
Lionel Messi: why his arrival in Paris is a key part...
Simon Chadwick, EM Lyon
Lionel Messi’s emotional though lucrative move to Paris Saint-Germain is now complete. After scoring...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
