Tag: Super Bowl
A brief history of the NFL, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ the Super...
Mark Clague, University of Michigan
When NFL Commissioner Elmer Layden visited the White House in August 1945, no sitting...
Drake and Jake, Mountain Dew’s millions and the Marvel Universe –...
Alexander Carter, University of Tennessee
Live sporting events are among the few remaining places where advertisers can ensure that...
Amanda Gorman’s poetry shows why spoken word belongs in school
Kathleen M. Alley, Mississippi State University; Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Cornell University, and Wendy R. Williams, Arizona State University
Editor’s...
What The Weeknd’s changing face says about our sick celebrity culture
Alvaro Jarrin, College of the Holy Cross
You might have seen The Weeknd’s altered face on the internet lately...
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...
Belichick versus McVay: An age-old question of leadership
Megan Gerhardt, Miami University
Super Bowl LIII will pit the Los Angeles Rams against the New England Patriots, but the sidelines will be the setting...
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...
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
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
