Tag: football
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...
I’m an economist riding a bike across America, defying what the...
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
It’s summer, a time when many people who might have spent the winter hibernating get outside and start...
NFL tells players patriotism is more important than protest – here’s...
Chad Williams, Brandeis University
The recent decision by the NFL regarding player protests and the national anthem has yet again exposed the fraught relationship between...
If football is so deadly, why did 103 million people watch...
John Affleck, Pennsylvania State University
During the second quarter of Super Bowl LII, the party stopped, if just for a second.
Tom Brady found Patriots wide...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
