football

4Apr

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SPORTS, VIDEO REELS

From Football Game To Entertainment Extravaganza – The Super Bowl’s Evolution

In just 50 years, the Super Bowl has become one of the biggest “shared experiences” in American culture, up there with attending religious services, voting in presidential elections and playing Pokémon Go. But curiously, many of the tens of millions who tune in don’t actually want to watch football. Perhaps it’s because the game itself has never been all that exciting, with the outcome rarely a close call. As a response, it seems the NFL has created a thriving, celebratory atmosphere around the game. So how did a battle of gridiron gladiators become second fiddle to a flashy spectacle of singers, fireworks and advertisements? The Super (boring) Bowl The Super Bowl is generally super boring – at least, in terms of the typically lopsided score. The game is so boring that a rehash of all 5...

21Aug

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IN OTHER NEWS

Is NCAA football too big to fail?

The coronavirus continues to jeopardize college sports. The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments were canceled back in the spring. In early August, smaller conferences like the Mid-American Conference and the Mountain West Conference postponed all fall sports, including football. But the big news came when the Big 10 and PAC 12 postponed all fall 2020 sports until the spring. These comprise two of the Power Five conferences, which control the college football playoffs and earn the lion’s share of revenue from the sport. The other Power Five conferences – the SEC, ACC and Big 12 – are holding out hope that they can still play football in the fall. The schools weighing whether to postpone are taking into account the health of staff and student athletes. But top of mind has to als...

Top football recruits bring in big money for colleges – COVID-19 could threaten revenue

29Apr

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COVID-19, SPORTS

Top football recruits bring in big money for colleges – COVID-19 could threaten revenue

Colleges and universities are spending more than ever to land the nation’s top football recruits, with some schools having boosted their recruiting budgets by more than 300% in the last five years. These budgets can surpass US$2 million for schools like the University of Tennessee. Is it worth it? I study economics. Research I recently did shows just how big the payoff for spending money to recruit the best players can be. Half a million dollars The schools that secure five-star recruits – the 30 or so players judged to be in the top one-hundredth of the top 1% of high school football players – can increase total revenue by over $500,000 for a university’s athletic department. Most football teams never secure a five-star recruit. Others, such as the University of Alabama and Louisiana St...

Heroic high school football player killed shielding teenage girls from gunmen – The Washington Post

4Apr

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Heroic high school football player killed shielding teenage girls from gunmen – The Washington Post

Zaevion Dobson's final act is being celebrated on social media by grieving classmates. When the shooting began Thursday night in Knoxville, Tenn., Zaevion Dobson faced a split-second choice: run away and save himself or use his body as a shield to protect those around him. Nobody would’ve have blamed the 15-year-old Fulton High School football player for doing the former. But Dobson, survivors would later recall, sacrificed himself, jumping on top of three teenage girls who were sitting on a porch with a few other friends when two men approached and began shooting randomly into the group, according to the Associated Press. “If it wasn’t for Zaevion, if he would have just ran off the porch, we would have probably been shot,” Kiara Rucker told CBS affiliate WVLT. Dobson was killed by a ...