If football is so deadly, why did 103 million people watch the Super Bowl?
What happened after Brandin Cooks took a massive blow during Super Bowl LII helps explain why NFL’s concussion crisis isn’t killing the sport’s popularity.
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Worst coaching call ever? Hindsight bias and the Super Bowl
“The worst call in Super Bowl history,” read a headline in my hometown Seattle Times after Seahawks’ head coach Pete Carroll seemingly threw the game away with his ill-fated decision to pass – rather than…
Giorgia Meloni – the political provocateur set to become Italy’s first far‑right leader since Mussolini
The far-right leader of the Brothers of Italy has tried to distance the party from its fascist lineage, but many are still worried about the direction she will take the country.
How CNBC created a GOP debate for the Twitter age
Was the latest GOP debate designed just to give candidates – and viewers – something to tweet about?
How much is too much to pay headteachers?
The huge salaries of school “super-heads” and some university vice-chancellors has once again come under fire, this time by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee. UK headteachers are among the highest paid…
50 years after ‘Jaws,’ researchers have retired the man‑eater myth and revealed more about sharks’ amazing biology
A shark expert whose own curiosity about these fascinating fish was sparked by the movie explains some of their unique features. Many discoveries came in the decades after ‘Jaws.’
Why some public universities get to keep their donors secret
There’s no law forcing George Mason University’s allied foundation to make the public university’s donor deals public.
Why Bill Belichick cast down his tablet
The problems that cause us to be so frustrated we contemplate throwing a computer can be much more serious than a multimillionaire football coach having a minor tantrum on a Sunday afternoon.
Trump is not a king – but that doesn’t stop him from reveling in his job’s most ceremonial and exciting parts
While President Donald Trump appears to govern with the flourish of a head of state, he is more invested in the job’s pageantry than the day-to-day.
New evidence of discrimination against Black coaches in the NFL since 2018
An analysis of 267 NFL offensive and defensive coordinators since 2003 finds that the Chiefs’ Eric Bieniemy’s odds of being hired as a head coach would have gone up significantly if he weren’t Black.